Tony Winner Betty Buckley Holds Hamptons 'Summer Song Intensive' 6/29 - 7/2

Betty Buckley will teach at a very special Summer Song Intensive and Communication Workshop in the Hamptons. The four day boot camp performance intensive will be held on June 29, 30, July 1 & 2 sponsored by the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY.

The workshop is designed to help students, assist young professionals or more experienced performers and educators to refresh themselves physically, emotionally and spiritually in the craft of singing, acting, storytelling and true communication with an audience.

Ms. Buckley will share her expertise for telling stories in song and guide her students through a methodology to facilitate audience connection through songs and monologues. Her emotional connection to songs and audiences is renowned, and that very connection is at the heart of what Ms. Buckley imparts to her students.
She will be joined by her longtime friend and renowned Pilates trainer Patrick Strong, who will begin each day's work with a Pilates class. The afternoons will be spent with Ms. Buckley.

Day one will focus on the practice of a meditative technique and explanation of a universal spiritual philosophy as the means for singer/actors to make effective choices for creating character.

Day two will continue with a communication exercise designed to illuminate the essence and practicum of genuine communication with an audience. Days two, three and four will include one on one work with Ms. Buckley and students in song and monologues.

Auditors will participate in all exercises except the actual one on one singing and monologue work.
Ms. Buckley has been a teacher for 37 years and has taught numerous singers, actors and professionals including investment bankers, athletic coaches and persons who want to perfect their ability to effectively communicate in their work and in relationships.

The cost for the Summer Song Intensive and Communication Workshop is $1000 for four-day workshop; $500 for auditors (Auditors will be allowed but must partake in the full four days. Auditors will be a part of all exercises and group activities but will not receive one-on-one training).

To register, contact Bay Street Box Office at 631-725-9500. 

Betty Buckley won a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway hit Cats. She received her second Tony Award nomination for Triumph of Love, and an Olivier Award nomination in London for her performance in Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.
Her other Broadway credits include 1776, Pippin, Song And Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Carrie.

Regional credits include Gypsy, Threepenny Opera, Camino Real and Buffalo Gal. She starred in the London production of Promises, Promises.

Her film credits include M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, Brian de Palma's Carrie, Bruce Beresford's Tender Mercies, Roman Polanski's Frantic and Woody Allen's Another Woman.

Her TV credits include the HBO series OZ, Eight is Enough, Law & Order: SVU and Without A Trace and the miniseries Evergreen and Roses for the Rich and various films for television. She has received two Emmy nominations.

Ms. Buckley has recorded 11 CD's and has received two Grammy nominations. She tours extensively in concert with her ensemble of jazz musicians.

The Actor-Singer works regularly in concert with her ensemble of musicians. Her solo CD, Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar Warehouse, received a Grammy nomination. In 2007, she released a new CD Betty Buckley 1967, which hit the Billboard charts. Her newest recording Quintessence, with long-time collaborator Kenny Werner and her quintet was released by Playbill and Sony BMG Broadway Masterworks in Spring 2008.

For over thirty-five years Ms. Buckley has been a teacher of scene study and song interpretation in various Universities and Art's Conservatories and currently gives Master Classes in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2009, Ms. Buckley was given the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Theater and was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in 2007.

Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski