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2D/3D Fine Arts Portfolio Development
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Theatre Monday – Friday Theatre Schedule: VCUarts SUMMER PROGRAMS presents Theatre Arts Intensive (TAI), a three-week residential program offering the finest professional training of its kind. Designed for high school students interested in developing their passion for theatre, students will spend seven to eight hours daily swashing swords, belting out showstoppers, acting for TV and film, and learning make up design techniques. Under the watchful eye of some of the nation’s most renowned master teachers, TAI provides training for the curious, the interested and the professional yearning to develop their talent in a safe and nurturing environment. Instructors are selected for their professional success as well as their ability to inspire and teach their passion to the next generation of theatre artists. Afternoons: * Please bring sheet music from Broadway musicals for a ballad, an up tempo piece and a song of your choice to work on in class. “Physical Movement/Stage Combat” Four Evenings: David S. Leong is chairman of the Theatre Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. He currently holds the title of Certified Fight Master, a distinction held by only ten other people in the United States. Feature films include Titus starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange, and Alien Resurrection starring Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder. David’s fight direction and movement coaching has been seen on Broadway in Carousel, The Rainmaker, The Civil War, King Henley II, Company, Picnic, Hamlet, Macbeth, Solitary Confinement, Sex and Longing, A Delicate Balance, The Homecoming, and In the Summer House. David has also choreographed or directed fights and/or movement for Val Kilmer, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Spacey, Mary McDonnell, Tom Berenger, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Joan Cusack, Tom Hulce, Stacy Keach, Christopher Plummer, and Harry Hamlin among others. Patti D’Beck is a veteran of 13 Broadway shows including, Annie Get Your Gun, Bells are Ringing, Grease!, The Will Rogers Follies, My One and Only, Evita, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, A Chorus Line Pippin, Seesaw, Applause, and pre-Broadway original musicals Busker Alley and Easter Parade. Patti also choreographed the opening number for the 1997 Tony Awards for Rosie O’Donnell. Patti has worked with many Broadway directors and choreographers including Tommy Tune, Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett, Jeff Calhoun, and Graciela Daniele. She has personally coached Brooke Shields, Reba McEntire, Jon Secada, Bernadette Peters, Tommy Tune, Sandy Duncan, Susan Lucci, Keith Carradine, Marla Maples, Lucy Arnaz, Rosie O’Donnell , Lucy Lawless (Xena the Warrior Princess), Liza Minelli,, and Marilu Henner, to name a few. Maura L. Cravey teaches Costume Design, Theatrical Makeup and Wig Design in VCU’s Theatre Department. She is a graduate of VCU Theatre Department with an MFA in Costume Design and Technology. Her teaching experience in costume design and makeup includes Virginia Commonwealth University, Murray State University, University of Virginia, and Fashion Design at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College. In addition to designing all of Swift Creek Mill Theatre productions, her designs have been seen at the Nevada Ballet, Las Vegas, NV, Dogwood Dell, Firehouse Theatre Project, African American Repertory Theatre, Ft Lee Playhouse, Yellow House Productions (film), Sibiu Theatre Festival in Romania, Theatre IV, Barksdale Theatre, Virginia Union University, SPARC, Richmond Shakespeare Festival, Blue Ridge Theatre Festival, and the Richmond Community Theater Guild. She has received a Phoebe Award for Best Costume Design from the Richmond Times Dispatch Newspapers and the award for Best Costume Design in a Musical for the United States Army’s World Theatre Festival. Her designs for Urinetown were nominated for Best Costume Design by Richmond Theatre Critics Circle. Maura is an active member of SETC and USITT. |