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Drop-In Acting Class

Acting Intensive - 3/26

Book Club for Actors

Leap with Passion Workshop

Rhonda S. Musak, Acting Coach

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March is here and I say march on!

I find March to be the perfect month to delve deeper into creative projects and that is just what we're doing here at Art & Soul Acting.

The Drop-In Acting Class is sizzling with creativity each Wednesday night. And I'm very pleased to announce the playwright for the next Book Club for Actors.

And on Saturday, March 26, I will be leading a super-charged 1-day acting intensive, Mastering the Art of the Cold Reading, the Audition & the Interview. Need some refinement in those areas? Then this one is definitely for you. And to make it even sweeter, you'll have the opportunity to put all you learn into practice at the end of the day for legit agent, Maegan Mishico, from bloc.

And finally, on a personal creative note, I will be back in rehearsal this month for my solo show, Rhonda Badonda: the Adventures of a Girl with a Pain in Her Brain. Want a sneak peek? We just finished our 90-second trailer!

Rhonda Badonda Trailer

Wishing you a month of creative joy!

Rhonda

Rhonda Musak

Acting Coach

Art & Soul Acting

DROP-IN ACTING CLASS

Acting class is the actor's laboratory and the Drop-In Acting Class at Art & Soul Acting is the place to play, explore, express and nail down your technique so that your next audition rocks it out of the park.

Class Structure

Each class begins with a brief warm-up so students can approach their work centered and focused. Actors then work on their material of choice in an individual work slot.

Work Slot Options
Actors may choose to work on any of the following:

Monologues
Cold Readings for Film or Stage
Audition Process & Technique
Preparation for an Upcoming Audition
Exercises to Stretch the Actors Instrument
Scene Study
Preparation for an Upcoming Role
Acting Technique Breakdown for an Acting Issue
Get Unstuck Coaching

Details

DAY: Wednesdays
TIME: 6-10 PM
DATES: weekly
LOCATION: NYC Studio/Union Square Area
FEE: $55/class

For complete details & registration please visit:

Drop-In Acting Class

ACTING INTENSIVE - 3/26

What does it take to create a successful cold reading and interview? Put the pieces together during this dynamic acting/business-of-acting intensive and complete the day by doing it all in front of an agent. Magic!

Mastering the Art of the Cold Reading,

the Audition & the Interview

Co-Led by Rhonda S. Musak & Bobby Holder

Both Bobby and Rhonda have seen it again and again: highly skilled actors doing themselves in in the audition room by making a series of small technical errors. It is heartbreaking! Sometimes, the mistakes are in the cold reading and sometimes the mistakes are in the interview and, more often than not, they are in both.

But this doesn't have to be the case. Technical errors can be easily corrected. And once corrected the actor's game realigns to a much higher level allowing their acting work and their talent to shine through so they can book the role and do what they love most -- act.

IN THIS 1-DAY INTENSIVE:
* Rhonda is going to iron out your cold reading errors.
* Bobby is going to repair your interviewing mistakes.
* You are going to have the opportunity to practice what you learn.
* Then you're going to do it all...in front of an agent.

WHEN: Saturday, March 26, 2016 - 11 AM-5 PM

WHERE: Studio TBA

Space is limited.

Fee: $250
$195 for Art & Soul Acting Students and
for TAPNYC Members and Alumni

To register, please visit:

Mastering the Art... Acting Intensive

BOOK CLUB FOR ACTORS

If you've ever cringed because you've been asked about a play that you think you should have read, then the Book Club for Actors is your remedy.

The 32nd meeting/s of the Book Club for Actors will focus on the plays of:

Amy Herzog

The Book Club for Actors is offered twice. Please choose one of two meetings:

When

Monday, April 25, 7-9

OR
Saturday, April 30, 3-5

Where
East Village location will be e-mailed with RSVP confirmation.

What

Read plays from the following selection of Amy Herzog's work:

4000 Miles*
After the Revolution
The Great God Pan
Belleville

So all participants are on the same page with at least one play, please be sure to read the play marked with an asterisk (*). And to ensure a robust conversation, participants are asked to read at least 3-4 plays.

Be ready to share what you have discovered about this amazing playwright so we can all learn and grow together!

For complete details & RSVP please visit:

Book Club for Actors

LEAP WITH PASSION WORKSHOP

Super charge the New Year with vsion and focus. In this life-aligning, 5-hour workshop, participations create a plan for the year ahead...a plan that will stick.

Leap with Passion into 2016!!!

2016 Leap attendees will receive Leaps & Bounds -- a bite-sized monthly reminder to inspire deep integration of all the discoveries made during the Leap workshop.

Please look for it in your e-mail inbox near the middle of each month.

Leap with Passion into 2017!!!

Dates TBA

Before this workshop, I was consumed with worries about the present and regrets about the past. Rhonda, helped me "let go" of all the negative uselessness of that thinking. For the first time in many years, I am infatuated by the future, hopeful and planning, not mired in the past.
~ Kim Corcoran ~

Leap with Passion Workshop

BOOK THAT JOB BLOG

Delve deeper into the craft and business of acting with articles that break it all down and build you up.

Want to produce yourself in a dream project? Here, from the archive, are some keay to doing so. (PS It will be a BLAST!) (PPS It will also be EXHAUSTING, but well worth it!)

FEATURED ARTICLE #1:

Rhonda S. Musak & David Pixley in Ondine

The Actor Producer: Part I

by Rhonda S. Musak

Several years ago I was checking out at the Act One Bookstore in Chicago. Always an easy upsell, the clerk asked if I wanted to read some really amazing plays-of course I did! I was then handed a small green and white volume of four plays by French playwright Jean Giraudoux. I said thank you, purchased my items and went on my merry way. Had I known how my life would be changed by that teeny tiny miniscule would-never-have-made-the-nighttime news transaction, I might've broken into a cosmic shuffle!

I fell in love with all of the plays in the collection, but it was Ondine that became my obsession...

Continue Reading on the Book That Job Blog

FEATURED ARTICLE #2:

Tim Spanjer & Tiffany Hodges in Ondine

The Actor Producer: Part II

by Rhonda S. Musak

In Part I of The Actor Producer, I discussed what inspired me step out of the audition line and ultimately cast myself in the title role of my dream project Ondine. In Part II, I have promised to start looking at concrete ways that an actor can accomplish stepping into the role of actor producer...

Continue Reading on the Book That Job Blog