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Directing Workshop is now closed.
Directing Workshop with
Esperanza Catubig Niles
When: Tuesdays June 17- Aug 5
6:30-9:30pm (note for time change)
Where: Bindlestiff Studio
185 Sixth Street,
San Francisco, CA
Fee: $50-250 sliding scale
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
Workshop Overview:
In conjunction with the Stories High Acting & Playwrighting Workshops, Esperanza Catubig Niles will facilitate an intense 8-week Directors Workshop, exploring all that a stage director will need to dissect a script, bring the best out of an actor's performance, communicate with the designers, and effectively tell the story that the playwright had originally intended at the lowest cost possible. As a guideline, the workshop will include discussing Harold Clurman's book, ON DIRECTING, and studying various directors' works, both in stage and film. This workshop will require homework, outside workshop rehearsals, and it will include one evening with a professional Directors' Panel (guest speakers TBA). Advance registration highly recommended.
Esperanza Catubig Niles is excited to see a new class of directors for this year's Stories High XIV. She is a San Francisco native who has worked extensively throughout the U.S., including Los Angeles, in theatre, film, television, commercials, and a one-woman show. Her most notable screen performances include guest-starring opposite Chad Lowe on WITHOUT A TRACE and performing opposite Lucy Lawless in LOCUSTS! A graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, Esperanza is a proud lifetime member of The Actors' Network and Actors' Equity Association. In the festival circuit, she starred in an independent feature film shot in Kentucky, entitled ACTS OF GOD, directed by Shane Sooter and just performed in Cutting Ball Theatre's Risk Is This...series at Exit Theatre in David Jacobi's new play, EX MACHINA directed by Evren Odcikin. After twenty years of acting professionally, she has transitioned to writing, producing, and directing new works that highlight and empower women of color in the industry, working in multi-media projects. She created NICO'S SAMPAGUITA, her first short film directed by award-winning director, Aaron Woolfolk, to celebrate her grandfather's musicianship and "home." Her next project will be for ABS-CBN Foundation, BRIDGING THE GAP in 2014.