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 BERKELEY REP SCHOOL OF THEATRE
NEW PRODUCER’S LAB
Thursdays 7-10 pm 4/6-5/4 2017
 
“FROM CONCEPT TO PITCH TO PERFORMANCE" 
FOR DIRECTORS AND PLAYWRIGHTS
 
5 Wednesday Labs with invited professionals
Instructor : Patricia Miller
 
DIRECTORS AND WRITERS YOU HAVE THE CRAFT.
NOW GET THE GIG… THE GRANT… MANIFEST THE SHOW!
 
This is an accelerated lab for artists who experience and a vision.
It includes actor-director labs, forums with funding and design professionals and creating a viable production pitch. Explore your vision and get the skills to move forward creatively and professionally in any theatre genre. Ex students of this popular class have won awards, started companies, made a difference!
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ALL GENRES AND LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE WELCOME!
Thursdays 7-10 pm 4/6-5/4
About the instructor : Patricia Miller is a freelance director/producer (Magic, NCTC, Ashby Stage, Marine’s Memorial, Edinburgh, London, Mountview Theatre Sch. London. UCR, UCD). TITAN AWARD WINNER, SF. Commercial Theatre Institute NYC, Counterpulse. Additional: Independent film industry production manager.
Artistic Director of Pollinator www.pollinatorarts.org and PantoSF  www.pantosf.com
For financial aid, pay plans and registration contact 510-647-2996, Berkeley Rep School

BERKELEY REP CLASS STARTS JANUARY 14 2016
DIRECTING: WORKING WITH ACTORS

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DIRECTORS, WRITERS, ACTORS....Calling all creative and curious minds: actors wanting new skills, writers approaching their own work, theatre fans who burn with vision... all levels of director and director curious welcome!
Whether you are devising, doing classics, naturalism or abstract, this tool box is for you and....... the time is now!!

So you have your dream project…but do you know how to speak to actors? Find the perfect cast and creative collaborators for each project. Learn how to audition and inspire actors and shape great performances across a variety of genres. Practical sessions include script breakdown, casting, and the nitty gritty of rehearsals whether non-professional or professional. Directors will work with a dream project or script from the following genres: contemporary plays, classics, musicals, or physical theatre. Actors experienced in each genre will lab with us during many of the sessions, sharing exercises and best practices so you are prepared to work with any material or performers from any genre. Class includes a final workshop performance. Actualize your vision and get the skills to move forward creatively and professionally.

THU 7–10PM · 1/14, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17 · 
COST $340
http://tickets.berkeleyrep.org/auxiliary/Reserve.aspx?p=10229&promo=15120
CONTACT Marybeth Cavanaugh @ BRT 510 647 2970
http://www.berkeleyrep.org/school/classes-adult.asp#tabbed-nav=devising
MORE INFO 
http://www.pollinatorarts.org/
email patricia@pollinatorarts.org

ABOUT TEACHER PATRICIA MILLER
Patricia Miller is based in London and San Francisco and brings a diversity of experience to theatre directing, teaching, and acting. She is interested in a strong dynamic between text work and physical theatre techniques, working in many genres raging from classics to new play development, modern works, and live arts genres (performance, circus, ritual, and opera). She has an MFA in Directing from UC Davis. Directing credits include Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, Magic Theatre, Ashby Stage for Swirl Media, Tides Theatre for Pollinator Arts, UC Riverside, NCTC, EXIT Theatre, and staged plays onboard a bus and in abandoned buildings. U.K. directing credits include Mountview Theatre School, National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, New Playwrights Festival in London, Riverside Studios in London, and the Edinburgh Festival. Acting credits include Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks, New Conservatory, Shotgun Players, Boxcar, Edinburgh Festival in London and European venues, and member of ensembles Pacific Playback and Mystic Family Circus/Cirque du Soleil. Teaching/directing credits includes Berkeley Rep, CCSF, UC Riverside, UC Davis, Berkeley City College, San Francisco City College, California Shakespeare Festival, and Aurora Theatre Education. Former casting director credits include Aurora, Magic Theatre, Playwrights Foundation, Rhino, and Boxcar. She is a succesful producer/founder of PantoSF at Marine's Memorial Theatre and artistic director at Pollinator Arts.

Event photo credit "Winter's Tale"


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