Community Outreach
Professional Theatre Youth Mark Break Camp
DO YOU HAVE A CHILD OR YOUTH WHO LOVES THEATRE? GIVE THEM THE UNFORGETTABLE GIFT OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OVER MARCH BREAK 2010!
Actors Theatre of Windsor presents their first March Break Camp for Children and Youth ages 9 TO 19.
Your Big Break Time & Location: Mon to Sun from: 9::00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Joy Family Theatre fee for "Your Big Break!" March Break camp is $200* (Holiday Gift rate) until January 4th, 2010 (Canadian Dollars ) per person for the 56-hour camp: Limit 15 - participants.BUY EARLY AND SAVE! *After January 4th, the regular camp registration rate of $250 per child will apply! The camp takes place at the Joy Family Theatre, in the Capitol Theatre and Arts Centre, 122 University Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada from Monday March 15 to Sunday, March 21, 2010. Students should arrive at 8:45 AM to be prepared to start class at 9 AM and runs to 5Pm each day of the course. The final Sunday, participants should be prepared to stay through to 8 PM. The Final Camp performance takes place at 2 PM and at 7PM in the Joy Family Theatre on Sunday, March 21, 2010. At the final performance each student will present a scene and a monologue they have developed and learned over the week's traning. Over the course of the week, each child will work as a group and individually with full-time theatre professionals from Windsor, Michigan and New York City who have come to Windsor for this special event. The foundation of the course is based ont he work of Michael Shurtlef and his book 'Audition'; Uta Hagen and Michael Checkov. The course fee includes text, costumes and a Camp T-Shirt. Children can bring their lunch. Children will also run mock auditions and learning cold reading and audition interview skills during the course. The goal of the camp is on opening a 'window' to professional training for children who seriously love theatre, while keeping the focus on fun! For more information about each of the Techniques taught in the course follow the links below. |
ATW March Break Camp Instructors
| Mona el Baroudi |
| Mona el Baroudi is the Artistic Director of Actors Theatre of Windsor, and the producer of the Windsor International Fringe Festival.. Mona is a trained acting professional (BFA Concordia & MFA York). She is a member of Canadian Actors Equity Association (CAEA) and the Association of Radio and Television Artists (ACTRA). Mona has directed a number of productions in Windsor over the past 10 years including : "Les Belles Soeurs" & "It's a Wonderful Life" for Theatre Windsor; The Vagina Monologues "; and Inherit the Wind"," 12 Angry Men", & "To Kill A Mockingbird" as Legal Benefit Productions for ATW. Mona is the co-founder of Actors Theatre of Windsor with her husband Gord Mackenzie. Gord and Mona live with their two children Jacqueline and Mercedes in downtown Windsor, Ontario. |
| Carol Rosenfeld |
 B.A., Univ. of Penn.; M.A., Columbia.Trained with Uta Hagen and Alice Spivak. Acting: 13 P, HB Playwright’s, Guthrie Theatre, Cape Playhouse, N.J. Shakespeare Festival, Whole Theatre Co., Jewish Rep, Counterpoint Theater, Writer’s Theater, NY City Opera. TV: AS THE WORLD TURNS and THE GUIDING LIGHT. Teaching: Rutgers (New Brunswick), The National Theatre of the Deaf, The National Theatre School of Canada, The Shaw Festival (Niagra on the Lake), Master Classes: Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, Calgary, Copenhagen, Barcelona and London. Directing: THE ROAD TO MECCA, SUBSTANCE OF FIRE, PICNIC, COLLECTED STORIES, SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY, THE MILLIONAIRESS, THE INCA OF PERUSALEM, and original works at the HB Playwright’s Foundation Theatre in NYC. Artistic Director: Hagen Summer Intensive. Faculty Advisory Committee: HB Ensemble. HB Artistic Council Chair (04-07). Author. “The Hagen Technique” chapter in Training of the American Actor. |
| Mary L. Pettit |
Univ. of Michigan, M.A. in Acting & Directing; Brown University, R.I. B.A. Trained with: Andre Gregory and the Manhattan Project. George Morrison; Viola Spolin; Harvey Vincent. Chosen by Mr. Shurtleff to co-lead an “Actors Gym” for Michigan actors Acting: Orleans Arena Theatre (MA), Black Sheep Repertory Theatre (Manchester, MI), The Yeats Ensemble and The Brecht Company in Ann Arbor, both in residence at the University of Michigan. Roles include: Cassandra in Trojan Women, Mrs.Warren in Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Frankie in Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Moon in the Real Inspector Hound, Doris in Same Time Next Year, Chelsea in On Golden Pond as well as roles in Vinegar Tom, Top Girls, Mother Courage, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Tartuffe (Dorine and Elmire), Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, Jacque Brel is Alive and Well…, It Had to be You, Duet for One, Hot’l Baltimore and String of Pearls. Directing: Most recently, Heaven, for the Windsor Fringe for Actors Theatre of Windsor. Michigan and Orleans (MA) credits: Little Foxes, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, The Crucible, Hay Fever, Candida, Dial M for Murder, The Real Inspector Hound, Arsenic and Old Lace, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cabaret, Never Been Kissed and Even Burning. |