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Essential Elements of Acting: Actor's Inspiration- Costumes & Characters
Costumes are powerful tools of character suggestion that can underline, juxtapose or catalyze character choices. In this debut workshop, Kaibrina Sky Buck, resident foolsFURY Designer and Ryan OâDonnell, long-time foolsFURY actor, will lead you through the relationship between costume and character, designer and actor, inner and outer inspiration. Participants will use improvisation to explore creating a devised piece with a character. Professional costumes from the foolsFURY repertoire and other pieces will be provided. Feel free to bring a costume piece of your own.
Ryan O'Donnell, MFA is a long-term member of foolsFURY Theater and also a member of Shotgun Players. He teaches acting all over the Bay Area including foolsFURY Theater, Berkeley Rep and Marin Theatre Co.
Ryan has appeared in several foolsFURY plays including Twelfth Night, Big Love, The Devil on All Sides and P.O.S.H. Ryan is a dedicated teacher with a talent for bringing humor and technique to all his classes.
Kaibrina Sky Buck, (costume designer) is a textile designer and costumer with a BFA in textiles from CCA and an MFA in costume from NYU. She has also studied at the Ãcole des Beaux-Arts in France and apprenticed as a master dyer in Saitama, Japan. She loves exploring color, texture, shape and image to seduce viewers into the world of the stage. Kaibrinaâs designs are informed by her training in visual art and her experience as a dancer and performance artist. She has made work for dance and theater in New York and San Francisco including Theater Mitu, Misnomer Dance, Steven Koplowitz, foolsFURY, Shotgun Players, Banana, Bag and Bodice, Word For Word and others. Her design work, jewelry design and other pretty stuff can be seen at www.tangledesign.com
Build Skills with foolsFURY Theater instructors
* brush up on former training
* explore new skills
* unlock your hidden talents
* gain confidence expressing yourself
* have fun in a nurturing environment
The essential elements of acting arenâÂÂt limited to the theater. We all need to learn how to think on our feet, embrace our creative ideas, and listen attentively in all jobs and personal interactions. How do actors do it? In this series, dynamic foolsFURY member instructors will focus on an Essential Element of Acting about which they're passionate. Explore theater improvisation games, vocal training, song and spoken word. Gain expressiveness, expand self-confidence and learn how to make strong choices in performance and in personal communication.
This series is suitable for business professionals, teachers, healers, theater novices and professional actors.
Dress to move.
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LocationThickHouse
1695 18th St. (at Arkansas)
San Francisco, CA 94107
United States
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| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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