Masterclasses
Upcoming Masterclasses
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Shakespearean Text Tools with Kate Hennig
Lighting 101 for the Director with Kim Purtell
Writers Ink with Maja Ardal
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Shakespearean Text Tools with Kate Hennig
A great primer for Shakespearean scene study or monologue work, and a technique that can be applied to any rich text. Learn about Prose and Verse, the use of Antithetical Structure, Rhythmic Structure, Scansion and its Anomalies, Rhetorical Structure, Punctuation, and last but not least, Poetry. This is like a music theory class for a piano student. This is before acting, supporting acting, instead of “acting”.
February 4, 10-5pm and February 5, 10-5pm, Nightwood Studio, $150 + HST
Kate Hennig- Theatre Artist Kate is a senior Canadian theatre artist, who celebrated thirty years as an actor last year. She recently returned from Broadway where she was the first north-American to play the role of the dance teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson in Billy Elliot: The Musical. She then played the same role in Toronto, garnering a Dora Award, and a Toronto Theatre Critics Award. Kate has received a previous Dora Award, three Betty Mitchell Awards, and a Genie Award nomination for her stage and film work. She has played Shakespeare, Shaw, Moliere, Coward, Dekker, Feydeau, Wilde, Mamet, and Stoppard as well as helping in the development of hundreds of Canadian plays, including The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company/National Arts Centre of Canada production. Kate can currently be seen as Adele Witham in Global Television’s Bomb Girls. She is a burgeoning playwright with works in development at the Stratford Festival and at Soulpepper Theatre. Kate has an MA in Voice Studies (with Distinction) from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London England, and is on faculty at the National Theatre School English Section, and has taught at McGill University and University of Toronto.
Lighting 101 for the Director with Kim Purtell
A two day Masterclass with Kim Purtell in the basics of Lighting Design for Directors. Kim’s designs have been critically acclaimed both on the national and international stage, having been seen across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Prague, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Russia.
She has received 11 Dora Award nominations, winning once, and is a recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award.
February 11, 10-5pm and February 12, 10-5pm, Nightwood Studio, $150 + HST
Kim Purtell- Lighting Designer Kimberley has designed for the Canadian Stage Company, Stratford Festival, World Stage, Luminato Festival, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Calgary, Vancouver Playhouse, Citadel Theatre, Young Peopleʼs Theatre, Soulpepper, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Theatre Centre, Factory Theatre, Necessary Angel, Studio 180, Queen of Puddings, Tapestry New Opera, The Banff Centre, da da kamera, Dancemakers, Kaeja dʼDance and many others. Selected credits include The List, That Face, Wild Dogs, Age of Arousal, Crave (all with Nightwood Theatre); Seussical (YPT); The Childrenʼs Republic (Tarragon); The Normal Heart (Studio 180); The Barber of Seville (Opera Hamilton); The Maids (Buddies in Bad Times); His Greatness (IART); The Little Years (Stratford Shakespeare Festival). Upcoming for Kimberley will be Caroline or Change (Acting Up Stage), The Happy Woman (Nightwood), Was Spring (Tarragon), Clybourne Park (Studio 180), Youʼre a Good Man Charlie Brown (Stratford), Beckett: Feck It (Queen of Puddings), La Calisto (Royal Conservatory) and Adaptation Project (Dancemakers). Kimberly is a recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award and has been nominated for 12 Dora Awards, winning twice.
Back by popular demand, this two day masterclass is for the writer in you! Led by award-winning writer, actor, director, Maja Ardal who you may know for her solo show, You Fancy Yourself.
February 18, 10-5pm and February 19, 10-5pm, Nightwood Studio, $150 + HST
Maja Ardal Maja, an Icelandic Canadian, has been working in theatre for 40 years as an actor, director, playwright, and theatre instructor. She wrote and performs the hit shows, You Fancy Yourself (Dora Award for performance) and The Cure for Everything (nominated for a Dora Award for outstanding play). She has toured with You Fancy Yourself to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009, followed by a tour of England, and across Canada. Playwrights Canada Press publishes both plays. PCP also published her first play. Midnight Sun, (premiered at Tarragon Theatre, directed by Andy McKim and Patricia Vanstone) which was translated to Icelandic and produced in her hometown of Akureyri, Iceland. The Cure for Everything (produced by Theatre Passe Muraille, directed by Mary Francis Moore) recently toured to Prince Edward Island and Los Angeles for the California International Theatre Festival. Maja adapted and directed the play, Prisoner of Tehran from the best-selling memoir by Marina Nemat. Prisoner of Tehran will be mounted in April of 2012, produced by Contrary Company in association with Theatre Passe Muraille. Maja was the artistic director of Young People’s Theatre Toronto, 1990-98, interim Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre 2007-8, performed as a regular for 7 seasons in The Road to Avonlea, playing Mrs. Potts. Maja trains actors at Humber College and Fanshawe College, and gives workshops in theatre vocal and physical techniques in communities across Canada. Maja was the recipient of the 2002 George Luscombe Award for Mentorship in the Theatre. This summer she will perform Marie Dressler in the world premier of Queen Marie at 4th Line Theatre.
To register for any of our Masterclasses, please use the registration form, downloadable here and email to Laura Pomeroy at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). If you have any questions or issues with the form please call Laura at 416.944.1740 ex. 5.
Nightwood operates with a no refund or exchange policy on all masterclasses.