Acting in Atlanta
Pat Hurley acting classes at the Alliance Theatre
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The Weekly update from the Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts:
We are pleased to announce the dates for the Atlanta Performs annual Unified Auditions will be March 30 & 31, 2009. We are equally pleased that once again the ‘Unifieds’ will be hosted by Woodruff Arts Center’s 14th Street Playhouse. For those of you who intend to apply for an audition slot, please note that we are working to put the entire application process online–applications for actors will be available soon! More info will be forthcoming after Thanksgiving.
I attended last year and plan on attending again this year. Last year had a mild affect on my acting career. A few auditions. Hopefully working with Pat Hurley on a few monologues will help
I love Pat Hurley’s acting class. He absolutely knows what he is doing and how to get the actors to find the moments. Oh, he may say “I don’t know where this is going, but let’s try it”, but he knows man. He knows.
The Pause: I know of ONE spot in my reading with Robin last night. Sort of a dramatic pause. But I guess I was doing it at other spots. We were both off book for our scene. Pat asked that I remove all the pauses between Robin’s lines and mine. He says the pauses are indicative of “acting between the lines” and not “acting on the lines”. In real life, everyday people are reacting off the middle of the other persons statement. And we really do have a reply ready before the other person finishes talking.
The pauses could be not remembering your lines, but he says if my mind is empty, immediately ask for line. A term Pat used was “watching yourself”. If you are not reacting to the lines (acting on the lines) you are paying too much attention to what you are doing, instead of reacting.
Of course to react, you really need to know your lines. If the lines are out of the way, you can react.
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Auditioned last night for a new play called Spreading It Around by Londos D’Arrigo at Stage Door Players. Arrive at 6:30 PM for a 6:45 audition slot. All the times I have auditioned in a time slot, it was just me doing a cold reading with an assistant. This time was different. I was given a side and assigned 3 other people to read the side with.
In the past, open auditions at Stage Door have been a zoo. Not because of bad management, but because of overwhelming response to open auditions. This time Robert Egizio assigned time slots. I don’t know what the actual design was, but it looked as if there were 5 or so people added to the mix every 15 minutes. And out of those people arriving every 15 minutes, there were people for each main character.
So when I went over the lines for our reading, there was a LARRY (who I read for), his wife TRACI, his mother ANGELA and a psychiatrist DR KRAPINSKY. It was actually a very fun read.
I have auditioned for Robert Egizio about a-half-dozen times, with no landed roles, and he knows me by name. When I arrived, his assistant (darn it – not sure of her name) knew my name. I was impressed with that.
And I walked out without a resume or headshot. I was so focused on dress the part that I forget to get the essentials. Luckily, I stopped by my wife’s office and printed out a resume. The first thing Robert said to me was “You need a new headshot”. This is true. Earlier in the year I was bald and it has grown back in. I do have an older headshot, about 4 years old, and a headshot taken earlier this year with no hair. But now I have even begun styling my hair differently from before. Robert has seen both headshots and probably has several on file.
I was very pleased with my reading. The best I have done for Robert. But I am pretty sure I will not get the role. The person who read KRAPINSKY was called in specifically to read LARRY. So no role.
Great networking though. I ran into two people I have done plays with, three people from acting class and a one off connection (someone in my currently play was in a play with this person).
I would love to be in a play at Stage Door, but alas, I don’t think it will be this one.