Frantic Assembly to Come to New York and Los Angeles

Frantic Assembly Award Winning London Based Theater Company (Movement Direction for the Tony Award-Winning Theatre production The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (West End, Broadway, UK & Ireland Tour, US tour) comes to New York and Los Angeles.

Hosted by Actors Movement Studio a 45 year-old NYC Conservatory dedicated to Training Actors in Physical Technique and Movement for the Actor is hosting Frantic Assembly Workshop tour in New York and Los Angeles this fall.

Frantic Assembly is an innovative London-based company that has developed a methodology for creating heightened movement that is grounded in reality. Join Frantic practitioner Amelia Cardwell for 6 hour sessions and discover Frantic Assembly's unique approach to creating physical material. Frantic Assembly's Method of devising liberates potential, and builds confidence in performers. These highly physical workshops will build skills, confidence, bravery and creativity!

Workshops will range from beginning to intermediate work and no previous experience is necessary. The workshops will explore how to use physicality to create meaning and subtext and will enable participants to build physical confidence and learn new and exciting approaches to devising work that can be applied to projects. Participants will experience what it is like to be an actor in the rehearsal room·; working collaboratively to create new devised material including Group Elevation and Chair Duets. Those taking part will also learn practical, production specific exercises from shows like the Tony-Award winning shows Curious Incident, Lovesong, Stockholm, Beautiful Burnout and Othello.

About Frantic Assembly: Award winning and sector leading theatre company Frantic Assembly is led by Artistic Director and co-founder Scott Graham. The company has toured extensively across the UK and worked in forty countries internationally collaborating with some of today's most inspiring artists. Frantic Assembly is studied as a leading Contemporary Theatre practitioner on five British and international academic syllabuses.

The company also delivers a Collaborative Theatre-Making MA, with Coventry University (UK Modern University of the Year 2014, 2015 & 2016; UK University of the Year 2015). Frantic Assembly also delivers Ignition, an innovative vocational training project for young men, particularly targeting those with little previous experience of the arts. Funded by the Esmèe Fairbairn Foundation, Ignition engages the least engaged and unlocks creative potential in boys across the UK.As well as Things I Know To Be True, productions include Othello, Beautiful Burnout (UK, Australia, New Zealand and New York), Lovesong, Stockholm (UK and Australia) and The Believers.

Frantic Assembly has also provided movement direction on the Tony Award-Winning National Theatre production The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (West End, Broadway, UK & Ireland Tour, US tour) and movement direction on the BAFTA nominated British/American TV series Humans (AMC, Channel 4 & Kudos).

Frantic Assembly has commissioned and collaborated with writers such as Mark Ravenhill, Abi Morgan and Bryony Lavery, and the success of the company's distinct creative approach has influenced Contemporary Theatre-making and foregrounded the use of movement directors and choreographers in new dramatic works. It has inspired writers to embrace new creative processes and opened up actors and dancers to new techniques. This is a matter of great pride to the company as it continues to do something different, and to do it differently.

Frantic Assembly Fall October -November Workshop Tour:

New York City:

September - Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd

10am-5pm

September - Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th

10am-5pm

Los Angeles:

November - Saturday 10th - 10am-5pm

For information on workshops fees and location:

Email: ams@actorsmovementstudio.com

Visit Actors Movement Studio: www.actorsmovementstudio.com

About the workshop practitioner: Amelia Cardwell is a theatre director and choreographer based in London, UK. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Animate Dance as well as a practitioner for Frantic Assembly. Amelia studied at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. After graduating she joined Company Chordelia Dance Theatre under the director Kally Lloyd-Jones.

Amelia's work as a director and choreographer include: Cage in Motion (Roundhouse Camden, Britten Theatre) One Is The Loneliest Number (V&A museum, Dalston Old Boys Club, Cochrane Theatre, St Barnabas Church) We Had A Black Dog (Theatre de Menilmontant) Elephant Angel (Scottish Opera UK Tour) Warrior (West Yorkshire Playhouse) By Your Side (Bermondsey Street Festival) Sea of Love (The Yard Theatre) Transfigured Night (Cadogan Hall) Trouble in Tahiti (Kino-Teatr, UK Tour)

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