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Ashland Center for Theatre Studies

Past A La Carte Courses

The Director and the Rehearsal Process

A week-long 3-credit graduate level class geared toward high school and community college theatre educators covering the director's role in the rehearsal process:

• Address issues of working with young actors
• Explore the post-casting, pre-technical rehearsal period
• Develop script analysis skills geared toward character development and helping actors realize their potential
• Build a rehearsal vocabulary
• Discover practical blocking exercises
• Learn how to use rehearsals as acting lessons while not impeding progress toward opening night
• Create rehearsal plans and monitoring schedules to ensure your performers peak at opening night
• Work with professional directors
• Discuss and analyze the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) production of Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Direct SOU young student actors and each other in practical directing exercises

Faculty

James Edmondson, OSF associate artist
G Valmont Thomas, director and OSF actor

Here's what our students say:

• "Everything was absolutely fantastic, but the thing I appreciated most was the focus on the high school situations we work in and how to apply what we're learning."
• "Above and beyond what I had hoped for . . . really what I needed."
• "Amazing. I feel like I have been working with greatness!
• "I loved this week. It touched my soul and changed my life. I'm very excited for my own classes and season to begin."
• "It means so much to be here in this nurturing environment with this loving faculty and staff."

2005 Particpant Emily Ottaway from Kansas with SOU student actors

The Ashland Center for Theatre Studies is a program of the SOU Department of Theatre Arts. The SOU Department of Theatre Arts offers an outstanding undergraduate theatre program with BFA, BA, and BS degrees in theatre. SOU is the designated Center of Excellence in the Fine and Performing Arts in the Oregon University System.