SARTA Announces Winter Workshop Schedule

The Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance has announced its workshop schedule for Winter and Spring 2010.

Classes with the Sacramento Theatre Company ensemble are available for kids and teens. These classes offer a unique creative experience in an exciting and stimulating theatre environment. All instructors are professionals with years of experience teaching theatre arts to young people. Small class sizes provide a comfortable setting where students receive personal attention.

Winter workshops dates with STC's ensemble are as follows: Every Saturday from January 16th to March 13th, Grades 1-3 9:00-10:15am and Grades 4-6 10:30am-12:00pm; Every Monday from January 11th to March 15th, Grades 7-9 4:00-6:00pm. Spring workshop dates are as follows: Every Saturday from March 20th to May 15th, Grades 1-3 9:00-10:15am and Grades 4-6 10:30am-12:00pm; Every Monday from March 15th to May 17th, Grades 7-9 4:00-6:00pm. For more information contact Lynn Baker, Director of Ensemble/STC Summer Camp for the Sacremento Theatre Company, at (916) 446-7501 or stcEnsemble@yahoo.com.

Private Voice Lessons are available with Professional Vocal Coach and Actress, Katie Rubin, MFA. Katie works as a professional stage and screen actress and teaches both private voice lessons and adult acting classes in Sacramento and the Bay Area. She has an MFA in Acting from UC Davis and has been teaching voice lessons privately for 10 years. Katie has studied vocal production for 20 years both privately and as a member of several professional choirs. She has performed lead roles in Musical Theater Productions in Florida, New York, and California, and has toured to Europe and Carnegie Hall as a vocalist. Most recently, she played Mrs. Pennywise in The Foothill Theater Company's professional production of "Urinetown."

Lessons are $50 for a 55 minute session and $35 for half an hour. Price is negotiable if need be.

For further information about voice lessons, please respond with an email to klrubin@gmail.com.

Ray Nakamoto, one of Sacramento's leading voice-over directors, is holding VO Buddy Night on Wednesday, January 13th from 7-9pm. Tuition for this voice-over workshop is $5. For more information send an email to Ray Nakamoto at Raynakamoto@att.net. This workshop will be held at Studio 24, 2220 K St., Sacramento, CA 95816.

Nakamoto Productions will present an Introductory Voice-Over Workshop on January 16, 2010 from 10am to 1pm. This workshop will be held at Studio 24, 2220 K St., Sacramento, CA 95816. Tuition for this workshop is $89.00 (cash, check or credit card accepted). To register, call Jackie at Studio 24 at (916) 442-8262. For more information call Ray Nakamoto on the VO Hotline at (916) 447-6435 or email Ray at Raynakamoto@att.net.

Playwrights Collaborative meetings have been announced for winter 2010. All activities are at the Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Blvd (in the same complex as Fran's Cafe and the Supper Club, across Del Paso and a little east of KFC). Workshops are monthly on Sundays at 7:00 PM on dates to be announced. There are no dues, fees or other charges for participating. Staged readings may be scheduled occasionally by playwrights.

At the Sunday, January 17, workshop, Fred Ekman's "Bus 10 Doesn't Stop Here!", Leo McElroy's "Corsair Flag", and Ron Tochterman's "A Fool For A Lawyer" will be read and discussed.

At each workshop, original plays by local writers are read and discussed as are ways to promote deserving works for production. Several theaters have expressed an interest in producing one new original play per year and Playwrights Collaborative has encouraged similar interest by other theatres in the area. There will also be occasional speakers with expertise in various aspects of theater.

Playwrights participating in the once-a-month Sunday workshops will be scheduling occasional "staged readings" of plays that have been developed sufficiently to be ready for production. A staged reading is a play production with the actors holding scripts.

Playwrights Collaborative invites interested writers and actors to attend and take part in the workshop readings which can lead to invitational staged readings of new works. The group actively promotes new plays to prospective producers. Following each reading, comments and suggestions for improvement will be solicited from all who are present.

For further information or if you have a play you would like workshopped, contact Gary Agid, Chairman, at gary@agid.com or (916) 383-9267.

Published playwrights since Thistle Dew Playwright's Workshop began three years ago: Laura Sheperd, "Annie's Story", Julie Greene, "Going Somewhere?", Timothy Cahill, "The Seduction of Thomas Sorrell", & "Going to Tibet", Charles McIntosh "The Divine Court-Martial of Field-Marshal Keitel"" Thomas M. Kelly, "...smile, and smile, and be a villain.", "Ba-Bang! ( or the end of an error! ) ", "The Timekeeper", "Fana!", "The Butterfly Within", "Extreme Unction", "Zen and the Art of Making Par" and a collection of childrens plays: "Your in Trouble Now, Charlie!", "This is Not Our Backyard, Charlie!", "Wake Up, Jay! It's Christmas!", and "Stop Snoring, Jay! I'm Dreaming of Christmas."

Local Playwrights Produced At The Thistle Dew Playwrights Theatre: (Full-Length Plays) Timothy Cahill, Julie Greene, Paul Hauck, Thomas M. Kelly, Leo McElroy, Charles McIntosh, Laura Sheperd, Donya Wicken, (Monologues) Gladys Acosta, Timothy Cahill, Charlie Cross, Theresa Elliot, Mark Fejta, Bernie Goldberg, Julie Greene, Eugene Griffith, Cindi Bennett, Frank Ingram, GloRia Jones, Thomas M. Kelly, Charles Kelso, Roger Linder, Laura Sheperd, Susan Webster, Donya Wicken and Jeff Webster.

Copies of most of the plays are available in the lobby of the Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre 1901 P Street, downtown Sacramento. Email Tom at thistledewplaywrights@yahoo.com or Julie at julie.greene@sbcglobal.net.

Dance classes for all levels and styles are scheduled for the 1st and 3rd Saturday (except holidays) of every month at Sierra II Dance Wing on 24th Street. Beginner classes will be held at 10am and intermediate/advanced classes will begin at 11am. Nominal donations to cover studio rental is encouraged. Drop-ins are welcome. Email darrylstrohl@gmail.com or call (916) 225-0999 for more information.

For more information about all SARTA Workshops visit www.sarta.com.

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