Kumu Kahua offers Summer 2005 classes

Have you wanted to develop your acting muscles? How about developing that idea you’ve always had for a play? Kumu Kahua Theatre will be offering theatre classes for adults in acting 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 a one-act play or start on a full-length play.

Instructor: Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, writer and actress, received her MA in drama and theatre at U.H. Mnoa. Nine of her plays have been produced in Hawai‘i primarily by Kumu Kahua Theatre and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth. Recipient of the Hawai‘i Award for Literature for her body of work, her plays The Conversion of Ka‘ahumanu and Ka’iulani toured Edinburgh, Scotland, Washington, D. C and Los Angeles. Her play, Tofa Samoa, was invited to the Okinawan Children's Theatre Festival. Her other plays include KKT’s production Ola NIwi, HTY’s Ka Wai Ola and the Kennedy Theatre’s Story of Susanna. Vicki is the recipient of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts 1996 Individual Artists Fellowship Award in theatre as a playwright.

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

Instructor: Sammie Choy has completed an MFA in Directing at the University of Hawaii and has taught beginning acting there for the past three 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 is currently working towards a PhD in Theater.

Schedule: 10 sessions, Saturday afternoons-12:30pm to 3:30pm, May 28-July 30. $100.

Kumu Kahua productions are being supported by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts celebrating more than thirty years of culture and the arts in Hawai‘i (with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts); the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts, Mufi Hannemann, Mayor; The Hawai‘i Community Foundation; and Foundations, Businesses and Patrons.

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	Summer's up, classes open at Kumu Kahua Have you wanted to develop your acting muscles? How about developing that idea you’ve always had for a play? Kumu Kahua Theatre will be offering theatre classes for adults in acting 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 a one-act play or start on a full-length play. Instructor: Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, writer and actress, received her MA in drama and theatre at U.H. Mnoa. Nine of her plays have been produced in Hawai‘i primarily by Kumu Kahua Theatre and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth. Recipient of the Hawai‘i Award for Literature for her body of work, her plays The Conversion of Ka‘ahumanu and Ka’iulani toured Edinburgh, Scotland, Washington, D. C and Los Angeles. Her play, Tofa Samoa, was invited to the Okinawan Children's Theatre Festival. Her other plays include KKT’s production Ola NIwi, HTY’s Ka Wai Ola and the Kennedy Theatre’s Story of Susanna. Vicki is the recipient of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts 1996 Individual Artists Fellowship Award in theatre as a playwright. Schedule: 6 sessions, Saturday mornings-9am to Noon, June 4-July 9. $100. INTERMEDIATE ACTING: This class will continue actor development for actors with prior training. At least a beginning course in acting is requested, with some performance experience. Class exercises will include scripted material and improvisations and will focus on monologue and scene work. Text analysis, performance, characterization, the rehearsal process, and working with other actors will also be covered. Instructor: Sammie Choy has completed an MFA in Directing at the University of Hawaii and has taught beginning acting there for the past three 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 is currently working towards a PhD in Theater. Schedule: 10 sessions, Saturday afternoons-12:30pm to 3:30pm, May 28-July 30. $100. Kumu Kahua productions are being supported by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts celebrating more than thirty years of culture and the arts in Hawai‘i (with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts); the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts, Mufi Hannemann, Mayor; The Hawai‘i Community Foundation; and Foundations, Businesses and Patrons. Home \| News \| Calendar \| Directory \| Library \| Plays Copyright 2005, Roger W. Tang Questions? Email

Summer's up, classes open at Kumu Kahua