Hello Everyone,
we are still accepting applications for Michèle's July classes.
Application deadline: Tuesday, May 29, 2007
RETURNING STUDENTS - please send a message to
Info@ACTottawa.com
confirming your desire to participate, please include your name,
age, phone #s, email & mailing address and send a $100.00
deposit to: A.C.T. 2 Daly Ave. Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2
NEW STUDENTS & AUDITORS - please send a PHOTO/RESUME and answers
to the following questions to
Info@ACTottawa.com
1. Why do you like to act?
2. Why do you want to study w/ Michèle?
3. What will you as an actor bring to the class?
and send a $100.00 deposit
to: A.C.T. 2 Daly Ave. Ottawa, ON K1N 6E
Deposits will be refunded to those who are not accepted.
GROUP A
Wednesday, July 11 - 5-10pm
Friday, July 13 - 5-10pm
Wednesday, July 18, 5-10pm
Friday, July 20, 5-10pm
GROUP B
Thursday, July 12 - 5-10pm
Saturday, July 14 - 5-10pm
Thursday, July 19 - 5-10pm
Saturday, July 21 - 5-10pm
GROUP C (New Students)
Sunday, July 15 12-7 w/ Claudia
Monday, July 16 5-10 w/ Claudia
Saturday, July 21 11-4 w/ Michèle
Sunday, July 22 12-7 w/ Michèle
Michèle
Lonsdale Smith
Actor •Teacher • Writer • Director
Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director
Lyric School of Acting Inc • 341 Water St • Van
604 685 0752 f/ 604 685 0782
www.lyricproject.com
Michèle graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York
in the
late 80s, and acted in numerous feature film, television, and theatre
projects
over the last 15 years including Sidney Poitier’s mini-series,
Children of the
Dust, It Takes Two, Soul Food and DaVinci’s Inquest. She is the
co-artistic
director of the Lyric Project with Kate Twa, founded in 2001, the
umbrella
project of the now renown Lyric School of Acting and the Lyric Stage
Company. She is the Advanced Acting Instructor at the school. She has
directed for the stage among others, The Mercy Seat by Neil Labute,
Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana, Eric Bogosian's one man
show
Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll and most recently, Blackbird by Adam Rapp.
As a writer, she recently co-wrote a feature film screenplay A Winter
Tale
which is slated for production in February 2006 for Leda Serene Films
where
she is periodically asked to assist in the development of projects,
lead
rehearsals for production, as well as casting, story editing and
writing of
scripts. Michèle will direct the theatre version of A Winter Tale in
Toronto in
January 2006.
She has also served as acting coach on both American and Canadian film
and
television productions including Alienated, the feature film Six
Figures, and The
Dark Hours both of which had their premieres in the 2005 Toronto Film
Festival. She regularly prepares actors privately for a multitude of
stage, film
and television roles and travels periodically to other cities in
Canada to mentor
and workshop actors.
Michèle's technique is rooted in Stanislavski,
Chekhov,
Strasberg and a little Meisner and is one she has been
working on for five years with actors in the master
class at Lyric. It's all about bringing your true and
authentic self to the work and being present every
time you work (at an audition, in class, on stage or
on set). It's about finding the artist within and
using the artist impulse to work instead of the
"clever" ideas the brain/ego comes up with so people
will "like you". It's about work ethic and the
life-long mastering of this incredible art form. It's
about focus and concentration and overcoming the
self-consciousness and fear that plagues all actors.
Of course all the problems cannot be solved in a
weekend but it will certainly give actors something to
work on for the rest of their careers and lives.
Each class begins with relaxation and sensory
exercises, some will be assigned private moments
and/or other exercises depending on their level. Then
we will work on the scenes. But the focus will be on
the bringing of truth to the scene, and how to ensure
each actor's unique and personal vision of the
character.
For more information about
Michèle Lonsdale Smith, please visit
www.lyricproject.com
