Theatre Summer Camp 2006 – META Performing Arts

Conrad will be teaching at the META Performing Arts Theatre Summer Camp at Skagit Valley College July 2006. http://www.metaperformingarts.org

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META PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE SUMMER CAMP
JULY 2006 – Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, WA

Registration for July 10-14, full day and morning sessions will be outside the Phillip Tarro Theatre, Monday, July 10th from 8:30-8:45 a.m. Registration for afternoon only classes (including all 5-7 year olds) is outside the Phillip Tarro Theatre from 12:30-12:45 p.m. Your promptness is appreciated.

WEEK ONE, July 10-14 TEENS 1-2pm Melissa Rolnick dance Mon-Fri 2-3pm Dave James auditioning workshop Mon-Weds 2-3 Carl Turner Shakespeare Thurs 2-4 Carl Turner Shakespeare Fri 3-4pm Sharyn Peterson voice Mon-Weds 3-4 Steven Craig McIntyre backstage tour Thurs 8-11’s 1-1:30 Dave James theatre games Mon-Thurs 1:30-2:15 Joe Bowen stage combat Mon-Thurs 1:30-3:00 Dave James auditioning workshop Fri 2:15-3:00 Sharyn Peterson voice Mon-Thurs 3:00-4:00 Melissa Rolnick creative movement Mon-Fri 5-7’s 1-4pm Carrie James creative dramatics Mon-Fri

WEEK TWO, July 17-21 TEENS 1-2pm Melissa Rolnick choreo w/props Mon 1-2:30 Melissa choreo w/ props Tues-Thurs 1-2 Sharyn Peterson voice Fri 2-4pm Bruce Weech stage combat Mon 2:30-4 Carl Turner Shakespeare Tues-Weds 2:30-4 Sharyn voice Thurs 2-4 Andy Friedlander audition workshop Fri 8-11’s 1-2pm Conrad Askland (“Seussical”)voice Mon-Fri 2-3pm Joe Bowen physical characterization Mon-Weds 2-3 Dave James auditioning workshop Thurs-Fri 3-4pm Melissa (Seussical) dance Mon-Fri 5-7’s > 1-4pm Stephanie Brink creative dramatics Mon-Fri

WEEK THREE, July 24-28 TEENS 1-2pm Scott McDade voice workshop for actors Mon-Weds and Friday 1-3 Bruce Weech stage combat Thurs 2-3pm Conrad Seussical vocal study Mon-Weds 2-4 Andy Friedlander auditioning workshop Fri 3-4pm Melissa Rolnick Seussical dance study Mon-Weds 3-4 Steve McIntyre Hall tour Thurs 8-11’s 1-2 Melissa Rolnick Seussical dance Mon-Thurs 1-4 Dave James auditioning workshop Fri 2-3pm Dave (Comedy) Mon-Thurs 3-4pm Conrad Askland Seussical music study Mon-Thurs 5-7s > 1-4pm Carrie James creative dramatics Mon-Fri>

Summer Camp Morning TEENS 9-10:30 Sami Detzer scene study Mon-Thursday 9-10:30 Sami cold-read auditioning Fri 10:30-12 Lynette McCormack musical theatre Mon-Thurs 10:30 –12 Lynette vocal auditioning Fri 8-11’s 9-10:30 Lynette McCormack musical theatre (Seussical) Mon-Fri 10:30-12 Sami Detzer acting skills for young actors Mon-Thurs 10:30-12 Sami auditioning conventions Fri WEEK TWO, July 17-21 TEENS 9-10:30 Sami Detzer monologue studies Mon-Thursday 9-10:30 Sami auditioning with a monologue Fri 10:30-12 Lynette McCormack “Rent� musical theatre study Mon-Fri 8-11’s 9-10:30 Lynette McCormack musical theatre (new) Seussical Mon-Fri 10:30-12 Sami Detzer auditioning skills for young actors Mon-Fri WEEK THREE, July 24-28 >TEENS AND 8-11’s >Sami Detzer and Lynette McCormack >Currently in development, call or check the website for updatesINSTRUCTORS!

We have assembled an incredible cast of instructors bringing together a vast array of talent and experience.

Lynette McCormack, Vocal/Dance Instructor and Director >Lynette has her Bachelor’s Degree in Music and Dance from the University Nevada of Las Vegas where she was principle singer at the Tropicana’s > Follies >Bergere. She has done a lot of industrial work on the road touring around the country. She has lived in La Conner for over 5 years and loves the warm friendly people and gorgeous countryside. >She has taught tap and jazz classes for AYA (Anacortes Youth Arts Dance Studio) and is currently teaching tap and country line dancing in Shelter Bay. She is vocal director for Meta Performing Arts based out of La Conner and has just finished directing and choreographing “The Little Mermaid.â€? She teachings a choral program at AHEP (Anacortes Home Educational Partnership). She loves to see the children grow in self esteem and confidence from their participation in musical theater. Music and dance brings out the best in us all….it soothes the soul and warms the heart. Andrew Friedlander, Teacher/Director of Theatre Programs – Skagit Valley College I am a theatre generalist with a specialty in acting, directing, Shakespearean performance and interdisciplinary studies. I have training in learning styles, cooperative and collaborative education, learning communities, critical thinking and writing skills reinforcement. > I have directed more than 125 productions in professional and academic theatre settings including the Idaho, Oklahoma and Western Washington Shakespeare Festivals, Centre Theatre Group of Spokane, Laughing Horse Summer Theatre, Eastern Washington University and Skagit Valley College. Representative titles include: Endgame, Is There Life After High School, Godspell, Once Upon a Mattress, The Rimers of Eldritch, Bedroom Farce, Antigone, Anything Goes and The Water Engine. Shakespearean productions include As You Like It, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Twelfth Night, Loves Labours Lost, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest.

Carl Turner, Artistic Director of Theater Arts Guild Carl K. Turner comes originally from Tennessee where he received his BA in Speech from Middle Tennessee State Univ., and was a veteran performer at Opryland USA. He studied acting under William Ball and Speech under Edith Skinner at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco in the Advanced Actor Training Program, and subsequently performed with San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Eureka Theatre, San Mateo Civic Light Opera and various fringe theatres. He moved to Skagit County 10 years ago to finish his MA in Theatre Directing at Western Wash. Univ. > He currently serves as Artistic Director of Theater Arts Guild where he has directed Crimes of the Heart, Romeo Juliet, Blithe Spirit, Little Shop of Horrors among others, and has performed in Oliver!, Joseph and His. . . Dreamcoat and A Christmas Carol. Locally he has also directed Sam Shepard’s True West and David Mamet’s Oleanna. > In February of this year he directed his first production for META, The Crucible, and had appeared earlier as Lazar Wolfe in Fiddler on the Roof. He also staged Sharyn Peterson’s production of the opera Amahl and the Night Visitors for three seasons. He teaches acting and scene study, Shakespeare scansion, stage speech, dialects and accents, and audition selection and technique.>

Conrad Askland, Musical Director, Producer and more!

Conrad Askland is a music producer and keyboardist. His educational and live performance experience covers an extremely wide range of styles and formats. His formal music studies include Pacific Lutheran University (Composition and Voice), the University of Miami (Music Law), the Cornish Institute, the Seattle Early Music Guild and UCLA School of Film Scoring.

Conrad has extensive experience in live performance as a pianist for Knott’s Berry Farm, 4 years as touring keyboardist with Grammy Winner Freddy Fender of the Texas Tornados, vocalist with the Seattle Opera, touring keyboardist for Roy Rogers Jr., performances at the House of Blues and Prince Hotels (Tokyo), the Grand ‘Ol Opry and as a keyboardist with various Southern California and Las Vegas show groups. He has also toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia and Japan and the United States. Conrad has also performed in England, France, Denmark, Wales, Holland, South Korea, Tokyo, Okinawa and Hiroshima.

As a musical director and/or conductor he has worked full time with such diverse groups as San Bernardino Summer Theater Festival, National Educator’s Conference and Hollywood Superstars. He has over 2,000 performances to his credit and also works as a freelance musical director.

In addition to scoring and composing for the albums he produces at Road Records he has composed and arranged for corporate entities including GTE and Contel, World Library Publications and United Airlines. He currently composes ongoing for nearly two dozen corporate clients at Road Records as well as producing commercial artist albums.

JOSEPH D. BOWEN, Actor, Director, Musical Theater, Stage Combat STAGE EXPERIENCE: 1993 to present The Odd Couple (Female Version) – Jesus Costazuela; Inspecting Carol – Wayne; Kiss Me Kate – Suitor/Dancer; Blithe Spirit – Charles; Picnic – Hal; A Christmas Carol – Young Scrooge/Banker; Macbeth – Thane/Lord Lennox/Assassin; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – The Chief; A Streetcar Named Desire – Stanley; Romeo and Juliet – Mercutio; Richard III – Lord Hastings/Soldier; Detective Story – Tami Giacopetti; Fiddler on the Roof – Russian; The King and I – The King; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Adam. OTHER PERFORMANCES Best of Broadway Revue – sang as Marius, Les Miserables; Moulin Rouge Revue – multiple singing and dancing roles; Murder Mistresses Dinner Theater – Improvisation; Northwest Children’s Theater – Upper Skagit Legends – Narrator/cedar flute performer. LEAD or PRINCIPAL ROLES Inspecting Carol; Blithe Spirit; Picnic; Romeo and Juliet; The King and I; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers MUSICAL and DANCING ROLES Kiss Me Kate (Show/Jazz/Ballet; duet romantic; assisted in choreography); Picnic (duet romantic, choreographed); A Christmas Carol (Show; assisted in choreography); Fiddler on The Roof; The King and I (duet romantic; self-choreographed). STAGE COMBAT Picnic (hand to hand, self-choreographed); Macbeth (heavy weapons; assisted in choreography); Romeo and Juliet (rapier duel); Richard III (heavy weapons) DIRECTING: 1997 to present Shadowlands; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Proof; Paint Your Wagon.

KATE KYPUROS, Program Director at META Performing Arts Kate is currently the program director at META Performing Arts. She also teaches drama at Immaculate Conception Regional School in Mt. Vernon and at the HomeLink program for the Lake Stevens School District. Kate produced META’s recent production, “The Little Mermaid� and will be producing META’s upcoming show, “Seussical�, the musical at McIntyre Hall in November of 2006. Kate’s most recent directorial credits include Disney’s “Aladdin Jr.�, “How To Eat Like a Child, and Other Lessons in Not Being a Grown-up�, “The King and I�, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever�, and “Tales From the Arabian Nights�. She is a certified facilitator for “Developing Capable Young People�, a program for parents and educators. Kate’s most recent acting credits include roles as a grandmother, a blind woman, a shameless hussy, and the owner of an abolition era speak-easy. Her favorite thing to do is to participate in improvisation. Her second favorite thing is storytelling.

Melissa Rolnick, Former Assistant Professor of Dance at Arizona State University (ASU) > She was the recipient of the Herberger College of Fine Arts prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award for the > 2003-2004 academic year. Previous to teaching at ASU, Melissa was a lecturer at Western Washington University for two years. She has a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase College and a MFA from Mills College. > She has performed extensively with many notable choreographers including Emily Keeler, Joe Goode, Cliff Keuter, Elina Mooney, Ruth Davidson Hahn and Mel Wong. She was a member of the San Francisco Moving Company, Cliff Keuter’s New Dance Company, and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company of San Francisco, performing nationally and internationally. She continues to teach, perform and choreograph nationally. Presently in her new home state of Washington she is teaching students of all ages at various community arts educations programs in Anacortes, Bellingham and Mount Vernon. In King County Melissa teaches for the Pacific Northwest Ballet Education and Outreach Program. > Most recently Melissa’s choreography has been produced by the University of Texas Pan American, California State University Fresno, Ann Green Gilbert’s Kaleidoscope Dance and On the Boards/12 Minutes Max in Seattle. Future projects include choreographing for the Cornish College Dance Ensemble in the fall of 2006.Sami Detzer, Actress, Musical Theater and META Veteran! Experience Juliet Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Northwest Abigail The Crucible Phillip Tarro Theater Narrator Our Town La Conner Drama Department Sara Women and Wallace Skagit Community Arts Theater Lamb chops Fame (The Musical) META Performing Arts Anne Page Merry Wives of Windsor Shakespeare Northwest Ensemble Y. A. I. Showcase Seattle Children’s Theater Education La Conner High School Sept. 2002- June 2006 Intro to Improv 2000 Kate Kyporus Acting II 2002 Stella Ireland Storytime Theater 2002 Maura Marlin Classical Theater 2003 Carl Turner Advanced Acting 2006 Alban Dennis Young Actor Institute 2005 Rita Giomi- Director

Scott McDade, Actor, Writer, Director Scott McDade is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Drama (BA) and holds an MFA in directing from Ohio State University. Over the past several years McDade has directed and stage-managed a number of productions for Theater Arts Guild, including two musicals he co-wrote with his wife Fran. McDade has performed as an actor and singer with the Cirque Playhouse and A Contemporary Theater (ACT) in Seattle; and has appeared locally in Anacortes Community Theatre and TAG productions.

Sharyn Peterson, Violinist, Vocalist, and Conductor >Sharyn is a northwest native who solos regularly with local symphonies. In 1999 she founded the Starry Night Chamber Series, now under the non-profit umbrella of the Skagit Opera. In 2005 and 2006, she will solo with four different orchestras in the Sibelius Violin Concerto and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. >Ms. Peterson has performed in small chamber ensembles with the principal bassoonist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Assistant Concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony, faculty members of New England Conservatory, Western Washington University, North Texas University, and numerous other fine musicians such as Paul Rosenthal-violin, Barton Frank-cello, Lisa Bergman-piano, and George Shangrow-harpsichord. > She has soloed with famed vocalist Erich Parce, soprano Terry Richter, soprano Julie Boyd-Penner, pianist Cullan Bryant, and many others. Ms. Peterson currently conducts the Mt. Baker Youth Symphony in Bellingham and the Fidalgo Youth Symphony in the Skagit Valley,as well as maintaining Peterson International Music School in Mt. Vernon, teachingviolin, viola and voice. Ms. Peterson’s students are frequent winners in various Northwest Competitions, and she is also an arranger and recording artist. She has twice been a guest soloist on violin and voice in the Monteverde Music Festival, Costa Rica. Each summer she directs the Summer Sounds Music Camp ( under the
auspices of the Mt. Baker Youth Symphony); an intensive week of symphonic, vocal, jazz, and art.

Her principal violin teachers were Emanuel Zetlin (from the faculty of the Curtis Institute), and Denes Zsigmondy, and her vocal instructors were Edison Harris and Paul Ingham, both associated with the University of Washington, where she received a Master’s Degree in Violin Performance. Ms. Peterson attended Tanglewood Music Festival on a full scholarship for chamber music, where she performed under Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas

David James, Director / Producer / Teacher: DIRECTOR FOR UPCOMING META PRODUCTION OF SEUSSICAL Currently teaches 10th grade Language Arts at Marysville Pilchuck High School, where he insists on pushing playwrights like Shakespeare and Chekov on impressionable teenagers. He attended classes at Skagit Valley College, got his AA from Whatcom Community College, a History degree from Western Washington University, an English endorsement from Seattle University, took a class from Seattle Pacific University, and just got his Masters in Education from Antioch University. >Has directed and produced plays and musicals in Stanwood with his wife, Carrie, for the last few years, including: Into the Woods, Jr. Anne of Green Gables Bye Bye Birdie Guys and Dolls, Jr. Annie, Jr. When he was in college, he was involved in the theatre program at Skagit Valley College, doing various tech and building jobs for all kinds of full-length productions and Short Play Festivals. He also did a bit of acting, for instance as “Trichinosis� in the Woody Allen play God. He began his theater career way back in middle school while working on musicals such as Annie (great musical) and P.T. Barnum, the World’s Greatest Showman (possibly one of the worst shows ever written… but still awesome, ‘cause everything in the theater is awesome!).

Carrie James, Director / Producer / Teacher : DIRECTOR FOR UPCOMING META PRODUCTION OF SEUSSICAL Education: University of Washington: BA Drama Western Washington University: Teaching Certificate Antioch University: Masters in Education Directorial Credits Include: Into the Woods Jr. Anne of Green Gables Bye Bye Birdie Guys and Dolls Jr. Annie Jr. Stage Managing Credits Include: The Tempest Fen Die Fleder Maus

Bruce Weech, Actor / Certified Stage Combat Instructor 35 years as a professional actor. I have appeared in over 100 stage productions, 10 commercials , and 2 films. I have worked with the Theater Arts Guild, Pacific NW ACT, Anacortes ACT, SCAT, Skagit Opera, and the Shakespeare Festival locally. I own Talisman Productions LLC providing professional technical support to theater companies throughout the NW. I am a certified stage combat instructor

Stephani Brink, Actor / Teacher
Stephani originally attended California State University of Long Beach as a Creative Writing major. She moved to Washington in 1992 where she decided to pursue a career in teaching. She has an added endorsement in Early Childhood Education and has taught several years of kindergarten and also third grade. She currently teaches first grade for the Stanwood School District at Utsalady Elementary

Q and A – What Music Do You Play For Pleasure?

Laura says:

You’ve played a very broad range of styles, with many other well-known
artists, and in some world-reknown places.

Do you, after so many years as a professional musician, still play for
your own pleasure, and if so, what are you most likely to play?

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Hi Laura,

Slow blues improvisation, Bach or Classical improvisation. When I play for my own enjoyment I like to let my mind free and those three things do it for me. Sometimes I’ll try to find a series of notes or chords I don’t think I’ve ever played before, and see what happens. Sometimes I might play a slow blues for 45 minutes straight and get a “drone” going for my mind to escape, or sometimes switch between styles every ten seconds as a mental game.

When I play for myself I’m more interested in shapes and mental imagery of the music, than I am of notes. When I play for other people it has to sound good to THEM, but when I play for myself, it only has to be interesting for me. So sometimes it becomes a math/shape game for me, and probably only sounds good to me…..