Gregor Paslawsky to Offer Master Classes at Hartford Stage, 6/9-10 & 6/16-17

The education department at Hartford Stage launches a new MainStage MasterClass series for adults beginning in June, featuring two special topic workshops, Clown for Actors and Melodrama, taught by distinguished guest artist, Gregor Paslawsky, appearing on Hartford Stage's MainStage this spring in Twelfth Night.

Clown for Actors

Clown for Actors is a two day workshop on Sunday, June 9 and Monday, June 10 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Clown is a way for the actor to discover their pleasure on stage - without scenery, costume, character, script, or even and idea - just a red nose and an audience. Darko Tresjnak, Artistic Director at Hartford Stage states: "I have never laughed more than in Gregor's clowning classes." All experience levels are welcome.

Melodrama

Melodrama is a two day workshop on Sunday, June 16 and Monday, June 17 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Students will explore the theatre of 19th century France, played for the working people of Paris - their stories of poverty, suffering, and struggle. The actors give all they have and then much, much, more to make their audience laugh and cry at the same time. All experience levels are welcome.

Gregor Paslawsky has worked in New York as an actor, teacher & designer since 1985. He received an MFA in acting from Temple University and has studied at the Ecole Philippe Gaulier in London. He specializes in teaching acting styles such as Melodrama and Clown, leading workshops at numerous universities and theater companies. He has been an Assistant Professor at Columbia University, School of the Arts, in the MFA program; Barnard College; and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has acted all over the globe, including the London Shakespeare Festival, and was last featured on our stage in Bell, Book, & Candle.

Student price available with a valid student ID or receive a discount when registering for both workshops. Discounts cannot be combined. For more information, visit www.hartfordstage.org/education.

Now in its 49th season, Hartford Stage is one of the nation's leading resident theatres, known internationally for producing classics, provocative new plays and musicals, and neglected works from the past, as well as a distinguished education program that reaches 21,000 students annually. In 2011, Darko Tresnjak became the fifth artistic director to lead Hartford Stage. That same year, the theatre presented the World Premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Water by the Spoonful, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This year the company also produced a world premiere musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, which recently played at The Old Globe in San Diego, and the world premiere of Breath & Imagination by Daniel Beaty, which recently played at City Theatre Company in Pittsburg.

Hartford Stage has earned many of the nation's most distinguished awards, including a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Margo Jones Award for Development of New Works, OBIE awards, two New York Critics Circle Awards, a Dramatists Guild/CBS Award and an Elliot Norton Award, and has produced nationally renowned titles, including the Broadway productions of Enchanted April and Our Country's Good and the Off-Broadway productions of The Orphans' Home Cycle and The Carpetbaggers Children.

The leading provider of theatre education programs in Connecticut, Hartford Stage serves over 21,000 students each year, through student matinees, in-school theatre residencies, teen performance opportunities, theatre classes for students (ages 3-18) and adults, afterschool programs and professional development courses.

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