Kumu Kahua offers Summer 2006 classes

Have you wanted to develop your improvisation muscles? How about developing that idea you’ve always had for a play? Kumu Kahua Theatre will be offering theatre classes for adults in improv 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. For more information about this and Kumu Kahua productions, visit www.kumukahua.org.

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. Schedule: 6 sessions, Saturday mornings, 9am to Noon, June 17-July 29. (There will be no class on July 15.) $100.

Instructor: Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, writer and actress, received her MA in drama and theatre at U.H. M?noa. 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 N? Iwi, 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.

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: GARRICK PAIKAI teaches acting at Leeward Community College. His play, Who Killed Gilbert Bothello? and the long form local improv, Da Pa‘ina, were performed as part of Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Dark Night series. Garrick has appeared on OC 16’s Mental Tilapia (an improv show) and See Steph Run (a sketch comedy show). He is the founder of the improvisational theatre group, On the Spot, and a member of another, Loose Screws. Schedule: 6 sessions, Saturdays, 12:30pm to 3:30pm, June 17-July 22, 2006. $75.

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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	SIGN UP NOW FOR TWO EXCITING SUMMER CLASSES AT KUMU KAHUA THEATRE Have you wanted to develop your improvisation muscles? How about developing that idea you’ve always had for a play? Kumu Kahua Theatre will be offering theatre classes for adults in improv 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. For more information about this and Kumu Kahua productions, visit www.kumukahua.org. 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. Schedule: 6 sessions, Saturday mornings, 9am to Noon, June 17-July 29. (There will be no class on July 15.) $100. Instructor: Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, writer and actress, received her MA in drama and theatre at U.H. M?noa. 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 N? Iwi, 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. 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: GARRICK PAIKAI teaches acting at Leeward Community College. His play, Who Killed Gilbert Bothello? and the long form local improv, Da Pa‘ina, were performed as part of Kumu Kahua Theatre’s Dark Night series. Garrick has appeared on OC 16’s Mental Tilapia (an improv show) and See Steph Run (a sketch comedy show). He is the founder of the improvisational theatre group, On the Spot, and a member of another, Loose Screws. Schedule: 6 sessions, Saturdays, 12:30pm to 3:30pm, June 17-July 22, 2006. $75. 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 2006, Roger W. Tang Questions? Email

SIGN UP NOW FOR TWO EXCITING SUMMER CLASSES AT KUMU KAHUA THEATRE