Certified Alexander instructor, Mary McCann, and April Feld Sandor of Simply Shakespeare, are offering artists a remarkable opportunity to brush up on techniques and take your work to the next level. This intensive offers one-on-one attention and hands-on application in discovering your habits, your choices, and your talents in creating fully supported believable characters. We will work together to strengthen the integration of movement, voice and theatre technique, using text of YOUR CHOICE -- either a new audition piece you wish to work on OR a dream role you dare to put into the universe.

Discover the ease and the playfulness of character creation
Combine text and bodywork to reveal the passion and emotional truth of the character
Transform tensions into useful character energy
Strengthen your observation skills and create from CHOICE as opposed to habit
Improve vocal clarity, strength and flexibility
Integrate a characterâs particular rhythms and way of speaking with physical freedom
Have fun with your work!

Workshop fee:$165
Register Today. Limited class size to allow for individualized attention.

Contact:
April at april@simplyshakespeare.com or 215-882-2600
Mary at ma2mcca@aol.com or 215-520-0832

About the Instructors:
April Feld Sandor is a professional actor and theatre teacher. Trained at London's Royal National Theatre as well as New York's Circle in the Square and The Actors' Space, April has been teaching various theatre disciplines since 1991. She has worked at Circle in the Square NYU, Elizabeth Browning Studios, Royal National Theatre Studio, People's Light and Theatre, Original Shakespeare Company and Princeton Rep's Shakespeare in the Square, among others.

Mary McCann trained as a professional actress with Broadway actor and director Gordon Phillips. She has been a certified Alexander Technique instructor since 1988. Mary has been a guest lecturer at the Harvard University Summer School Acting Program; has taught acting and the Alexander Technique at the Wilma Theater, and master classes at DeSales University and Bryn Mawr College (PA) in addition to working with Simply Shakespeare.
www.alexandertechnique.com/philadelphia

What others are saying about this work
"The most surprising aspect for me was that I don't have to work so hard. April and Mary are a dynamic duo who teach with passion, intelligence and a keen eye for theatrical truth." -Meghan Heimbecker

"The Alexander work blended with the acting work almost seamlessly.
I now can't imagine one without the other." -Kate Danaher

"You will find yourself challenged and inspired, undoubtedly leaving with a better understanding of text and tension." - Julie Gorham

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Creating Original Characters: Text & Alexander Technique Intensive

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Text & Alexander Technique Intensive