AACT and Summer SceneWorks are excited to announce the Guest Speakers of the 2014 Summer SceneWorks Lesson Series:
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Dan Larocque: Performing Plays for Voices, July 21stDan LaRocque served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in Auburn University's College of Liberal Arts from 2011-2013 and was Chair and Artistic Director of Auburn University Theatre from 2005-2011. He also served on the National Executive Committee of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival from 2000-2009, serving as KCACTF Chair and Vice Chair of Region IV (Southeast), and as a respondent for more than 100 college theatre productions throughout the country. He received the Kennedy Center Medallion for Excellence in 2007. His one-act play, Man Woman Flower published by Playscripts, Inc. has been produced professionally Off Broadway at the Harold Clurman Theatre in New York and by the West Coast Ensemble Theatre in Los Angeles, and has enjoyed an extensive amateur production history in The United States, Canada, Australia and England. Dan has been teaching acting, voice, and movement in Auburn's BFA Theatre Performance program since 1990, and he's directed or appeared as an AEA Guest Artist in more than forty Auburn University Theatre productions.
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Fiona MacLeod: Acting TechniquesFiona MacLeod is the artisitic director at the Red Door Theatre, as well as a director and theatre program Co-ordinator for 22 years at Huntingdon College. She has also performed in productions at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, as well as served as guest director at Troy University Theatre. She received her degree from the University of Alabama. Her lessons will include several aspects, such as breath, partnering, and characterization, and will span several weeks of the Summer SceneWokrs Lesson Series.
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Chris Qualls: Conflict and the Physical ObstacleChris Qualls is an Associate Professor of Theatre at Auburn University where he teaches acting, directing, and introduction to theater in the BA and BFA programs. He received his MFA in Acting from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and his BA in Communication Studies/Film from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also taught at the ASF Academy and has worked as a voice-over actor for the past twenty-five years. His clients have included the U.S. Army, Hardee's Corporation, and Caterpillar Tractor. He appeared as Camillo inThe Winter's Tale and Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and as Vladimir Lenin in Tom Stoppard's Travestiesat Iowa Summer Rep. He has directed The Tempest, The Flea in Her Ear, The Complete History of America (abridged), A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Jukebox Musical, and Scapin on the Telfair Peet Mainstage. His research/creative work focuses on the integration of classical and non-traditional approaches to the performance of Shakespeare; physical approaches to acting; and the collection, adaptation, and performance of oral histories specifically as they relate to social justice and human rights. His play, The Synaptic Gap, was created from over 50 hours of transcribed interviews on the subject of mental illness, specifically major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
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