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Theatre Typical Weekday Theatre Schedule: Acting for the Camera 9:00 – noon Mornings: 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. Matt McKay’s background is in Movement Pedagogy for Theatre. He learned stage combat from the Society of American Fight Directors, and is certified in Rapier/Dagger, Broadsword, and Unarmed fighting. Matt has also completed training at the United Stuntman's Association Stunt School. McKay recently served as the Assistant Director of Shadow Play at VCU, and has been seen in several productions at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he received his undergraduate degree, including The Illusion, The Braggart Solider, and Vietnamization of New Jersey. Barry Bell has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild for the past twenty-seven years. He has worked in Feature and Independent Film, Television Series and Film, Commercials and Industrial Film. His resume includes; guest-starring roles on Matlock, Walker Texas Ranger, I-40 Paradise, Dawson’s Creek, Legacy, American Gothic, HBO’s From Earth to the Moon, John Adams, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and the British Television show The Professionals. On film he has appeared in Maximum Overdrive, Morning, Bruno, Reuben-Reuben, Doomsday Man, Radioland Murders, Trick or Treat, One of Her Own, The Perfect Daughter and three dozen other TV and Feature Films. Barry is currently an Assistant Professor in the VCU Theatre department where he teaches Acting for Stage and Film, and Directing for the Stage. Mr. Bell is also a member of Actor’s Equity. Heather Hogg has been a designer, couturier, and artist in the Richmond area for 15 years. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Costume Design in 1991and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Theater Pedagogy in May of 2006 from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her most recent design work includes Firehouse Theater Project’s, The Secret of Madam Bonnard’s Bath, Theater IV’s, Mousetrap , Theatre VCU’s, The Three Sisters, Firehouse Theater Project’s, The Goat , and the Science Museum of Virginia’s Anna and Tony. She also was awarded a Partners in the Arts grant for designing and implementing an original production called James River Anthology, in which masks were co-created with characters from the imagination of the minds of the students of Seven Hills School. She was also commissioned by Collegiate School to write Amelia’s War, a play based on the novel by Ann Rinaldi. Heather is the Costume Shop Supervisor at the University of Richmond’s Department of Theater and Dance, an adjunct faculty member of Theatre VCU, teaching Costume Design and Stage Makeup, and also designs and constructs couturier bridal gowns for both local clients and clients as far as New York City. |