Kumu Kahua offers classs for Summer '04

Have you ever had the urge to try your hand at acting? How about developing that idea you've always had for a play? Or maybe you thought you could be on Saturday Night Live? Well, do we have a couple of summer classes for you! Kumu Kahua Theatre will be offering theatre classes for adults in acting, masks and movement and playwriting.

All classes will be held at the Kumu Kahua Theatre and will be filled on a first-come-first-served basis. For more information, or to reserve a place in a class, call the Kumu Kahua Theatre Business Office at 536-4222.

PLAYWRITING:
This class will cover the basics of playwriting including dialogue, character development, structure, and building scenes. Students will work on weekly exercises and on a one-act play or the beginning of a full-length play. Instructor Y. York says, "I like to help beginning playwrights learn how to get started and how to keep going. This class is about two things: 1. Finding out more about the characters in your play so you don't have to break up with them and start a new play, and 2. Learning the difference between dialogue and narrative."

Instructor: Y YORK is HTY's Pew Charitable Trust Playwright-in-Residence through 2004. She is a 1994 alumna of New Dramatists and recipient of their Joe Callaway Award. Y's plays have received support from Washington State's King County Arts Commission, Seattle Arts Commission, and Artist's Trust. She has also received support from Metropolitan Life, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She received the 1997 Berrilla Kerr Playwriting Award and is a member of the Dramatists' Guild.

INTERMEDIATE ACTING:
This class will continue actor development for actors with prior training. At least a beginning course in acting is recommended. Class exercises will include improvisations, scripted material, and will focus on monologue and scene work. Text analysis, performance, realistic characterization, rehearsal process and working with other actors will also be covered.

Instructor: Sammie Choy is currently completing an MFA in Directing at the University of Hawaii and has taught beginning acting there for the past two years, teaching advanced acting as time permitted. She spent most of the 90s in San Francisco as an actor, both on stage and on camera. Stage appearances in Honolulu have been at Manoa Valley Theater in Sisters Matsumoto and at the Yellow Brick Studio in Talking With. Choy is a Kumu Kahua board member. She will begin work on a PhD in Theater in the fall.

Schedule: 10 sessions, Saturdays, May 29-July 31, 2004, 12:30pm to 3:30pm. $100.

BEGINNING IMPROVISATION:
Fundamentals of improvisation, developing creativity, spontaneity, and working as an ensemble. Movement and dialogue based exercises. Lots of fun that will help free your creativity. No previous experience or preparation necessary.

Instructor: R. Kevin Doyle teaches acting at Mid-Pacific Institute. He is a Kumu Kahua Board President and directed Da Mayah for the theatre. He directed Macbeth and Comedy of Errors at UHM and Prom Queens Unchained for MO(a,¯)noa Valley Theatre. He is a member of the improvisational theatre group Loose Screws. He holds an MFA in Directing from UHM Theatre department and is currently a PhD candidate in Asian Theatre.

Kumu Kahua productions are being supported by the State Foundation on Culture & the Arts celebrating more than thirty years of culture & the arts in Hawai'i; the Mayor's Office of Culture & Arts, Jeremy Harris, Mayor; The Hawai'i Community Foundation; Territorial Savings; & foundations, businesses & patrons.

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	Kumu Kahua offers classes for summer Have you ever had the urge to try your hand at acting? How about developing that idea you've always had for a play? Or maybe you thought you could be on Saturday Night Live? Well, do we have a couple of summer classes for you! Kumu Kahua Theatre will be offering theatre classes for adults in acting, masks and movement and playwriting. All classes will be held at the Kumu Kahua Theatre and will be filled on a first-come-first-served basis. For more information, or to reserve a place in a class, call the Kumu Kahua Theatre Business Office at 536-4222. PLAYWRITING: This class will cover the basics of playwriting including dialogue, character development, structure, and building scenes. Students will work on weekly exercises and on a one-act play or the beginning of a full-length play. Instructor Y. York says, "I like to help beginning playwrights learn how to get started and how to keep going. This class is about two things: 1. Finding out more about the characters in your play so you don't have to break up with them and start a new play, and 2. Learning the difference between dialogue and narrative." Instructor: Y YORK is HTY's Pew Charitable Trust Playwright-in-Residence through 2004. She is a 1994 alumna of New Dramatists and recipient of their Joe Callaway Award. Y's plays have received support from Washington State's King County Arts Commission, Seattle Arts Commission, and Artist's Trust. She has also received support from Metropolitan Life, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She received the 1997 Berrilla Kerr Playwriting Award and is a member of the Dramatists' Guild. Schedule: 6 sessions, Saturdays, July 17-August 21, 2004, 9am to Noon. $100. INTERMEDIATE ACTING: This class will continue actor development for actors with prior training. At least a beginning course in acting is recommended. Class exercises will include improvisations, scripted material, and will focus on monologue and scene work. Text analysis, performance, realistic characterization, rehearsal process and working with other actors will also be covered. Instructor: Sammie Choy is currently completing an MFA in Directing at the University of Hawaii and has taught beginning acting there for the past two years, teaching advanced acting as time permitted. She spent most of the 90s in San Francisco as an actor, both on stage and on camera. Stage appearances in Honolulu have been at Manoa Valley Theater in Sisters Matsumoto and at the Yellow Brick Studio in Talking With. Choy is a Kumu Kahua board member. She will begin work on a PhD in Theater in the fall. Schedule: 10 sessions, Saturdays, May 29-July 31, 2004, 12:30pm to 3:30pm. $100. BEGINNING IMPROVISATION: Fundamentals of improvisation, developing creativity, spontaneity, and working as an ensemble. Movement and dialogue based exercises. Lots of fun that will help free your creativity. No previous experience or preparation necessary. Instructor: R. Kevin Doyle teaches acting at Mid-Pacific Institute. He is a Kumu Kahua Board President and directed Da Mayah for the theatre. He directed Macbeth and Comedy of Errors at UHM and Prom Queens Unchained for MO(a,¯)noa Valley Theatre. He is a member of the improvisational theatre group Loose Screws. He holds an MFA in Directing from UHM Theatre department and is currently a PhD candidate in Asian Theatre. Schedule: 6 sessions, Saturdays, May 29-July 3, 2004, 4pm to 5:30pm. $75 Kumu Kahua productions are being supported by the State Foundation on Culture & the Arts celebrating more than thirty years of culture & the arts in Hawai'i; the Mayor's Office of Culture & Arts, Jeremy Harris, Mayor; The Hawai'i Community Foundation; Territorial Savings; & foundations, businesses & patrons. Home \| News \| Calendar \| Directory \| Library \| Plays Copyright 2004, Roger W. Tang Questions? Email

Kumu Kahua offers classes for summer