Classes and Workshops
KCPT members receive a discount on class and workshop fees.
(You're a member of KCPT if you have donated $30 or volunteered for KCPT in
any capacity since April of 2008.)
2010 Key City Kids Summer Theater Camps
Acting! Acting! Acting!
A dramatic experience for young actors who just can't get
enough!
New this year: Key City Kids
Theatre Adventure Club for ages 5 - 8. Register for our
two-day three-hour summer camp July 7 - 8 and get invitations to
future Theatre Adventure Club activities throughout the year!
Pictures from our
2009 camps...
Here's an opportunity for young theater artists to deepen these
skills:
Improv
Auditioning
Scene Study
Monologues
Singing for Actors
Key City Kids will work with Key City Public Theatre's teaching
artists to:
• Refine and
improve acting skills
• Expand
abilities in character development
• Develop
greater performance confidence
• Increase
knowledge of the audition process
You can register here online...
During this intensive summer theater camp each young actor will
choose and develop a monologue and song piece to be performed at the
end of the week. Camp participants will also have an opportunity to
perform for KCPT directors and receive feedback.
All young actors will leave summer camp with an increased audition
repertoire, prepared for their next performance opportunity or KCPT
General Audition.
Seriously Fun!!
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Theatre Adventure Camp (for ages 5 - 8)
July 7 - 8,
2010
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Instructors: Angela
Gilbert and Rowen Matkins
with
KCPT Staff Guest Instructors Denise Winter and Adam Matthew.
Tuition: $100 - $60 sliding scale fee
Register online...
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Session 1 (for ages 8 - 12)
July 12 - 16,
2010
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Dates are firm.
Exact daytimes and instructors are subject to change.
Instructors: Angela
Gilbert and Rowen Matkins
with
KCPT Staff Guest Instructors Denise Winter and Adam Matthew.
Tuition: $250 - $150 sliding scale fee
Register online...
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Session 2 (for ages 12 - 18)
July 19 - 23,
2010
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Dates are firm.
Exact daytimes and instructors are subject to change.
Instructors: Charlie
Bethel and Amy Sousa
with
KCPT Staff Guest Instructors Denise Winter, Adam Matthew and Rowen
Matkins.
Tuition: $250 - $150 sliding scale fee
Register online...
Camp instructor biographies
 ROWEN MATKINS has been performing on stage since childhood and has
worked in T.V., radio and film as well. She received her BFA in
vocal performance from Arizona State University and trained as a
facilitator in Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed. Rowen was an
acting instructor for the "kids on film" program at Bobby Ball
Talent Academy in Phoenix, and taught acting and singing to youth in
the Chicago area, as well as here in the Northwest. Her performance
credits are varied and extensive, with local performances including
both of KCPT's "best show of the year" winners: “The Spitfire Grill”
and “The Conference of the Birds.” She has worked with KCPT’s
Artists in the Schools program teaching drama to K-2nd graders at
Grant Street Schools, I.C.E. Elementary school students, and
Crescent School District’s OPHC program. This is her second year as
an instructor for our Summer Acting Intensives. She was most
recently seen in last summer’s production of Comedy of Errors, and
will return to the park this year as the Assistant Director of
KCPT’s "The Tempest."
CHARLIE BETHEL is a writer/actor based in New York. He trained at
the North Carolina School of the Arts, and has taught at
Northwestern University's National High School Institute (aka"Cherubs,"
Evanston, IL), Illusion Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), the Community
Initiatives Project (Greenwood, SC), and the Esalen Institute (Big
Sur, CA), as well as workshops and master classes for high schools
in Minnesota, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. He directed
Teen Lab at Key City Public Theatre last
autumn, and is looking forward to repeating the experiment this
autumn. His specialties are Voice and Movement, Shakespeare, and
monologue/solo performance.
ANGELA GILBERT is a
teaching artist for KCPT's youth theatre programs. An enthusiastic
actor and director, she has been a member and participant of Key
City Public Theatre for over eight years. She is also an instructor
of Kinesiology at Port Townsend School of Massage and brings body
awareness and movement exercises to the theatre's education program.
AMY E. SOUSA
received her BFA in theater from New York University’s Tisch school
of the arts. She studied acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory of
Acting. She has worked as a teaching artist for the last fifteen
years in the New York City School district, teaching acting,
writing, storytelling, voice and movement classes. She is currently
pursuing her Ph.D. in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate
Institute. She is also a member of Sootsprites Productions, a Port
Townsend based production company.
 DENISE
WINTER received her BA in drama and English at Kenyon College in
Gambier, OH. Denise has 20 years professional theatre experience and
has served on the artistic staff of 6 Tony Award-winning regional
theatres including 5 ½ years with Children’s Theatre Company in
Minneapolis, MN. At Children’s Theatre Company, she was responsible
for the casting of all young actors ages 8 – 18. Denise has
performed in 48 states, Canada and China with companies such as
American Repertory Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, New York
City Opera, Nickelodeon/SFX and Radio City (Music Hall)
Entertainment. As of May 2005, Denise is the Artistic Director of
Key City Public Theatre in Port Townsend where she directed the
Northwest premieres of “A New War” and “So Far: The Children of the
Elvi.” Most recently she directed KCPT’s 2008 Shakespeare in the
Park production “As You Like It” and this season’s “Birnham Woods.”
She has also choreographed a number of KCPT productions including
the award-winning “The Spitfire Grill,” and “Working.” Denise is a
member of Actors’ Equity Association the union of professional
actors and stage managers.
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Kundalini Yoga for Actors with Emmy Graham
Kundalini Yoga for Actors -- a 10 week series --
Wednesdays 8:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
Starting March 24th until May 26th. All classes are at the KCPT
administrative office 1128 Lawrence Street in Port Townsend.
Cost: $80 for 10 class series; $10/class. Walk-ins welcome.
Please bring your own yoga mat, a blanket and water to drink. Taught
by Emmy Graham.
PLEASE NOTE: Class size is limited. Please contact Emmy or the
administrative offices if you are interested in this class and we
will reserve a space for you. Flexible payment arrangements are
available. Please contact the theatre at: 379-0195 or info@keycitypublictheatre.org.
This class is designed for actors but is open to anyone. No prior
yoga experience is required. Kundalini Yoga is a yoga of awareness.
It is a science that is fast and effective in helping you find your
inner power, your core strength, your inner voice, to project
yourself authentically on the stage. A regular practice of this yoga
will help you with the rehearsal process and the performance of a
show in terms of stamina, self esteem, staying grounded and focused,
tapping into your creativity, putting power in your voice, and using
your breath effectively and efficiently. We will use tools to help
you prepare for an audition, transition from your day to rehearsal,
and perform consistently.
In this class we will explore the chakra system and the qualities of
each chakra and how an actor can apply them to his/her craft. We
will use breathwork, mantra, meditation and purposeful kriyas using
the ancient technology of Kundalini Yoga as was originally taught by
Yogi Bhajan.
Emmy Graham is an actor and a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher. She
has been teaching in Port Townsend since 2005. Questions? You can contact Emmy Graham at 379-2688 or
through
www.satanama.org
Playwrights' Works-In-Progress
A note from the PWIP folks...
KCPT is offering a special meeting of PWIP
(Playwrights' Works-in-Progress)
before the deadline of the
One-Act Play Competition.
We hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to share your
work
and get feedback from your colleagues and KCPT's
Literary Manager Mara Lathrop.
Mara is an accomplished playwright and teacher,
and is a former judge of the One-Act Play Competition.
The meeting will be Wed August 18 at 7:00 p.m.
(Note this is the *third*
Wednesday in August, not our usual pattern,
but we wanted to give ample time
between both meetings and the competition deadline.)
Location: KCPT Offices, 1128 Lawrence St, Port Townsend.
If you have something you want read, please
e-mail PWIP to request a time slot.
As always, we invite all playwrights to attend even if you don't
have material being read.
Hope to see you there!
The PWIP Folks --
Admin: David Schroeder
Coordinators: Jim Daly, Jack O'Connor
KCPT Artistic Director: Denise Winter
KCPT Literary Manager: Mara Lathrop
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General PWIP Information: Local
Playwrights are invited to participate in Key City
Public Theatre’s monthly Works-In-Progress program, a
chance for local playwrights to hear their working
scripts read and receive feedback. This program is
designed to provide a supportive atmosphere to develop
playwrights’ skills, to enable them to hear their work
out loud, to hear other writers’ work, and to gain
insight from feedback presented.
We encourage interested playwrights to attend each month
even if you don't have material prepared —
come and be a part of the process!
A MODERATOR is provided to facilitate the
feedback session. PLAYWRIGHTS CAST THE PLAYS from among
those present, including playwrights. Actors from KCPT
are available to read (by invitation only), usually two
women and two men each month.
Works-In-Progress is a FREE SERVICE TO KCPT MEMBERS, or
provided for a suggested sliding fee of $2 to $5 per
session for non-members.
Works-In-Progress is held the fourth Wednesday of every month,
held at 7:00 p.m. at KCPT's uptown offices, 1128
Lawrence Street.
Email
David Schroeder with questions or to register for
this event.
— The Playwrights' Works-In-Progress Committee
Denise Winter, Jack O'Connor, Jim
Daly, and David
Schroeder
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Archive: 2010 Playwriting Workshops feature Andrea Stolowitz
In collaboration with the PT Arts Commission, a
nationally recognized playwright conducts a free workshop annually.
For 2010, the Playwriting Workshops have become
part of the expanded 14th Annual
Playwrights' Festival and will feature noted Portland playwright
Andrea Stolowitz.
Schedule:
In this beginning workshop you will complete
a series of exercises designed to stimulate your creativity
and heighten your theatrical impulse. Please
register
here (it's free).
In this continuing workshop you will receive
feedback on the work you created in Saturday's seminar, and
start an advanced exercise. Space is limited.
Please
register here.
Andrea Stolowitz is a graduate of the
MFA playwriting program at UC San Diego. She has had her plays
developed and presented at many venues including The Cherry Lane
(NYC), The Old Globe (SD), The Long Wharf (CT), New York Stage and
Film (NY), and Portland Center Stage (OR).
Her play KNOWING CAIRO had its professional world premiere at The
Old Globe Theater (San Diego) where it earned a San Diego “Billie”
Best New Play Award and was named as an LA Times Critic’s Pick. It
has had subsequent national and international productions.
Her play TALES OF DOOMED LOVE
will receive a staged reading as part of the Playwrights' Festival
on Sunday evenings.
Read more...
As a screenwriter, she has written episodes for
The Sopranos and The West Wing, and had two feature
length screenplays optioned by Axial Entertainment.
Her latest play BAD FAMILY was workshopped this
summer (2009) as part of the JAW Playwrights Festival at Portland
Center Stage.
Other full-length plays have been finalists and winners for various
awards and prizes including the Jerome Foundation Grant, PlayLabs,
the JET theater New Play Prize, the O'Neill National Playwrights
Conference, and The Princess Grace Award.
Andrea currently teaches at Willamette University and the University
of Portland, and has served
on the theater studies faculty at Duke University and UC-San Diego.
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Playwrighting Workshop Archives
Past visiting playwrights
have included:
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2006: Gip Hoppe ("A New War" and "Boyce and
Melinda's Financial Strategies for a Post-Money World")
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2007: Constance Congdon ("So Far -- The
Children of the Elvi")
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2009: Wendy MacLeod ("Birnham Woods")
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