THTR 1020 Chapter : THEATRE 1020
Document Summary
Sports as performance: sports and theatre are highly collaborative, many similarities between coaches and directors done well, praised; done badly, fired. Grad school opens doors: becoming increasingly competitive; and mfa can set you apart. Unions for actors: 3 unions for actors, must pay 5,000 or do 51 weeks with equity companies theatre, sag for screen actors (film/television; must have 5 lines in filmed major production to qualify, pay 3,000, aftra reps radio. Audition: most film/television require agents to have even minute success, most auditions require a monologue or cold reading, professional actors often have agents, for theatre, actors often represent themselves unless in bigger markets in la or. Nyc: use headshots and resumes to represent themselves. Constantin stanislavski: russian actor/director created first systematic approach to acting, father of realistic acting, focused on psychological realism on naturalism, started method acting, students were among lee strasberg and stella adler, sanford meisner, elia.
