Primary Stages Offers Intensive Classes In Acting & Playwriting, Enrollment Open

Primary Stages, one of New York's preeminent theater companies, is offering a series of intensive classes in acting and playwriting taught by industry professionals that include PS Staff members Casey Childs (Founder and Executive Producer), Andrew Leynse (Artistic Director), Michelle Bossy (Associate Artistic Director), and returning staff David & Linda Laundra, Tanya Barfield, Blair Singer, Rogelio Martinez, Lucy Thurber and Morgan Jenness.

The Primary Stages School of Theater (PSST) helps fulfill the Primary Stages mission of producing new work by offering classes and workshops in playwriting, acting, theater arts and producing.

PSST is excited to offer a range of new classes this summer that are designed to keep students on their toes between the more extensive Fall and Spring semesters. Courses offered in the acting department simultaneously enable students to refine the fundamentals while stepping outside of their comfort zone. The semester has curriculum designed to help students perfect a monologue, build a solo performance piece, or sharpen on-camera techniques. Additionally, playwriting classes allow students to focus on their specialties, from developing the framework of a musical libretto to exploring site specific and audience interactive pieces. Workshops in both acting and playwriting will also be offered and will be announced at a later date.

Summer 2009 acting and playwriting courses being offered include:

Acting Classes
Screen Intensive: Random Acts/NYC, team taught by Casey Childs, David & Linda Laundra
On-Camera Auditioning with David & Linda Laundra
The Monologue with Andrew Leynse and Michelle Bossy
Solo Performance with Tanya Barfield
Theater Techniques for the Emerging Actor with Lauren Mancia
Auditioning for Today's Theater with Andrew Leynse and Michelle Bossy
Weekend Camera Intensive with David & Linda Laundra

Playwriting Classes
The Rewrite with Rogelio Martinez and Michelle Bossy
Adaptation with Rogelio Martinez
The Libretto with Kait Kerrigan
Making Television with Blair Singer
Face the Blank Page and Write with Tanya Barfield
The Art of Pitching with Lucy Thurber
Alternative Theater with Morgan Jenness

Enrollment is underway with many classes nearing capacity. Information is available by contacting Director of PSST Tessa LaNeve at (212) 840-9705 x212, via email at tessa@primarystages.org, or by visiting the Primary Stages website at www.primarystages.org.