About the Instructors:
Anna-Helena McLain, Anna-Helena McLean – Artistic Director, Moon Fool

Details:

Interested in taking your voice and character work to the next level? Then this is the workshop for you! This intensive workshop will focus on using integrated voice and movement skills to develop unique characters for use in scripted scenes and improvisation for theater and voiceover. Through a range of integrated vocal and movement exercises, group improvisation, partner work and individual mic time, students will expand their expressive range, make strong choices and learn how to self-direct. Work with professional voiceover scripts and improvised dialogue within a scene. Learn mic techniques to help demystify the niche market of voice acting.

This workshop is recommended for professional actors interested in voiceover work, performers or teachers who want more voice skills, improvisers, movers who speak, voice actors who want to take their performance to the next level, and anyone who wants to gain greater voice-body integration and have fun. No experience necessary. Class size is limited to 14. Dress to move and bring water.

About the Instructor:
Debórah Eliezer, Debórah Eliezer, Associate Artistic Director of foolsFURY Theater and Voiceover Actor, offers a rare group workshop. A passionate, experienced instructor, Debórah draws from her professional career as actor/ choreographer on stage, the healing arts and years of experience behind the mic and on camera. She coaches for theater, voiceover and camera in San Francisco and produces voiceover demo cds. Recent voiceover credits include: more than 250 “As Seen On TV” products, PBS.org video game, over 35 Leapfrog Toys, Dora the Explorer commercial on Nickelodeon, The Godfather,Sands of Destruction & Sims3 video game, the number one bestselling video game of all time. www.deboraheliezer.com

Details:

Everyone knows improvisation is fun. But why? When we make up a tune, suddenly change course to avoid traffic while driving, have a spontaneous discussion with a stranger or even go “off book” and make up a line in the middle of a play, we feel recharged and more in tune with the present. We may feel excitement, and a sense of hope or lightness may manifest in our bodies. A greater sense of possibilities may appear to us. In this experiential session, we’ll rediscover ways to “drop in,” get to the heart of our own creativity and the barriers we use to prevent us from getting there. We’ll se ensemble theater skills including sound, song, movement and word play. We’ll articulate repeatable skills which can be used in the theater or in the world to bring us back to a spontaneous state of creative possibility. This workshop is ideal for actors, directors, corporate team trainers, teachers, or anyone seeking more skills and greater ease accessing their creativity and a higher level of productivity.

About the Instructor:
Debórah Eliezer, Associate Artistic Director of foolsFURY Theater. A passionate, experienced instructor, Debórah draws from her professional career as actor/ choreographer on stage, the healing arts and years of experience behind the mic and on camera. She coaches for theater, voiceover and camera in San Francisco and uses improvisation as a foundation for her teaching and theater work. For more information about Deborah, her private coaching practice or voiceover work, visit: www.deboraheliezer.com

Details:

“I love the Viewpoints, but how do I actually apply this stuff to making a play?”

This evening-length workshop looks at ways of applying the Viewpoints to the specific challenges of creating a play. The Viewpoints are one of the most effective and exciting theater trainings in use today. Various versions of these techniques are now being taught in universities, conservatories, and professional workshops around the United States and abroad. They are both an excellent way of teaching actors, as well as a powerful tool in generating material. But training in the Viewpoints as a performer is very different from learning to use them effectively in creating a piece of theater. Through discussion and director-actor exercises, the course will offer practical ways to apply the Viewpoints working with either extant text or devising new work. Students will review basic ideas and exercises of the Viewpoints, honing the teacher or director’s ability to use the Viewpoints with an ensemble, ways of generating material from Viewpoints sessions, and exploring scene work with a Viewpoints perspective. Highly suggested for Factory Parts participants, directors, ensemble theater makers, dance theater artists, high school/university instructors, and anyone who wants new skills working with text.

About the Instructor:
Ben Yalom, is foolsFURY’s Founder and Artistic Director, has studied, used, and taught the Viewpoints for nearly 15 years. He has worked closely as assistant and co-instructor for Mary Overlie, the creator of the Viewpoints, and has also studied extensively with Anne Bogart’s SITI company. He has taught The Viewpoints at various Universities and training programs, including Stanford, NYU, Vassar College, and many more. “Ben has a far firmer grasp on the Six Viewpoints than almost anyone else in the United States.” –  Mary Overlie, originator of the Viewpoints

Details:

foolsFURY’s signature program! A two-week intensive for continuing students of physical ensemble theater that moves beyond our basic training, teaching cutting-edge techniques in contemporary theater and helping you harness them for your own work. Our exploration will stretch your notions of how stories can be told on stage, and allow you to unlock new areas of creativity in your bodies and minds. The program brings together many of the styles and forms which we have carefully integrated into our powerful and liberating approach to creation, including Viewpoints, Suzuki, Buffoonery, structured improvisation, vocal training, writing exercises, and more.

Pre-requisite: To enroll you must have taken previous workshops in the Viewpoints and Suzuki techniques (such as the foolsFURY Fundamentals, foolsFURY-hosted workshops with the SITI company, Mary Overlie, other foolsFURY workshops) have prior dance or martial arts training or equivalent. For questions about these requirements, please contact Debórah Eliezer, deborahe@foolsfury.org

About the Instructors
Taught by a team of foolsFURY Theater instructors including Debórah Eliezer, Ben Yalom, Brian Livingston, Michelle Haner and others.

Details:

• By Check: mail check by March 29th to: foolsFURY Theater, 499 Alabama St, # 450, San Francisco, CA 94110
• Bring/Prep: your views and questions on making and viewing devised theater
• Contact: Debórah Eliezer with any questions you may have at: deborahe@foolsfury.org

• Please email your RSVP by July 21st to: Alicia Coombes, aliciac@foolsfury.org
• Bring/Prep: your views and questions on making and viewing devised theater
• Contact: Debórah Eliezer with any questions you may have at: deborahe@foolsfury.org

Interested in taking your voice and character work to the next level? Then this is the workshop for you! This 4-wk workshop will focus on using integrated voice and movement skills to develop unique characters for use in a radio play to be recorded at the end. Discover the world of voiceover and expand your skill set.

Details:

• elevate your education from school to a real-world professional level
• learn and apply artistic and administrative skills of how to produce work in an ensemble theater co
• mount a creative project from start to finish and perform it in a national theater festival in SF
• create community, expand your artistic network, get your mind blown
• utilize weekly, individual professional mentorship to fulfill your goals
• participate in cutting-edge professional ensemble training from foolsFURY and leading guest artists in the field of ensemble theater
• take advantage of affordable program tuition, scholarship and work exchange available

• Ensemble Team Building for Organizations and Corporate Professionals
• Public Speaking and Vocal Training
• Embodied Presence: ensemble theater skills for better communication