Programs for the Public
Mo`olelo is pleased to offer acting, playwriting, producing and other classes and individual coaching to the general public.
To register for any of our classes or for general inquiries, please email classes@moolelo.net or call 619-342-7395. Please provide your name, address, phone number, email address and which class you’re interested in. Someone will contact you with more details or to confirm.
NEW COURSE – COURSE FULL -Email classes@moolelo.net to get on the waitlist
Course Title: BUILDING A STORY: Playwriting Class
Instructor: Stephen Metcalfe
Dates: Six sessions, Meeting every other Tuesday from 6:30 – 8:45 PM, April 10 – June 19, 2012:
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Tuesday, April 24
Tuesday, May 8
Tuesday, May 22
Tuesday, June 5
Tuesday, June 19
Venue: Mo`olelo @ The 10th Avenue Theatre, 930 10th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101, 3rd floor writers’ room
Course Fee: $250 ($200 for members of AASD, AEA, AFTRA, SAG, LMDA, or TCG)
Registration: A 20% nonrefundable deposit is required to hold your spot in the class. The balance is due by the first session. To register, please call 619-342-7395 or email classes@moolelo.net
Class size: 6 – 8 students
In the course of 12 weeks, the individual will write and work on scenes and monologues that will become the building blocks of a new play. We will explore the elements and vocabulary of playwriting. These will include character, dialogue and dramatic structure and theatrical imagination. We will analyze play scripts – both our own as they develop and those of working professionals.
About the Instructor
Stephen Metcalfe’s career has touched on all forms of dramatic writing; screen, television and stage. His first produced screenplay was JACKNIFE. Based on his Off-Broadway play, Strange Snow, it starred Robert DeNiro, Ed Harris and Cathy Bates and was directed by British stage and screen veteran, David Jones. The adaptation of French director, Jean-Claude Tachella’s, Cousin-Cousine soon followed. Produced by Paramount, COUSINS was directed by Joel Schumacher and starred Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, William Peterson, Sean Young and Lloyd Bridges. In the early 90’s Mr. Metcalfe took the darkly realistic, 3000 and turned it into the Pygmalion–like fairy tale, PRETTY WOMAN. The film, of course, starred Julia Robert and Richard Gere and was directed by Garry Marshall. Numerous rewrites followed. Among them were ARACHNOPHOBIA directed by Frank Marshall; IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU, starring Nicholas Cage and Bridget Fonda and directed by Andrew Bergman; THE AIR UP THERE starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Paul Michael Glazer; MR. HOLLAND’S OPUS, starring Richard Dreyfuss and directed by Steven Herrick; THE MARRYING MAN starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger; DANGEROUS MINDS starring Michelle Pfeifer and ROOMMATES starring Peter Falk and directed by Peter Yates. Mr. Metcalfe has also worked with Sean Connery and Kevin Costner respectively, on the as yet un-produced screenplays, THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR and AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. Mr. Metcalfe has adopted both stage plays and novels. His play, EMILY was done for Scott Rudin and Paramount Pictures; TIME FLIES, by Paul Link, was adopted for producer Laura Ziskin; A.R. Gurney’s THE OLD BOY was written for Touchstone Pictures and Peter Mayle’s comic novel, ANYTHING CONSIDERED, was done for producer, Stanley Jaffe and Sony Pictures. In 2002 Mr. Metcalfe wrote and directed the independent film BEAUTIFUL JOE starring Sharon Stone and Billy Connelly. Mr. Metcalfe’s stage plays include LOVES & HOURS, VIKINGS, STRANGE SNOW, SORROWS AND SONS, PILGRIMS, HALF A LIFETIME, EMILY, WHITE LINEN, DIVIRTIMENTI, THE INCREDIBLY FAMOUS WILLY RIVERS and WHITE MAN DANCING. His plays continue to be produced in New York and at theaters through the United States as well as in Europe and Japan. His television credits are available upon request.
NEW COURSE – COURSE FULL – email classes@moolelo.net to get on the waitlist
Course Title: SOLO SHOW: Writing & Performing
Instructor: Jennifer Barclay
Dates: Six sessions, Mondays, 6:30 – 9:30 PM, May 7 – June 11, 2012
May 7
May 14
May 21
May 28
June 4
June 11
Venue: Mo`olelo@ The 10th Avenue Theatre, 930 10th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101, 3rd floor rehearsal room & 4th floor cabaret
Course Fee: $250 ($200 for members of AASD, AEA, AFTRA, SAG or TCG)
Registration: A 20% nonrefundable deposit is required to hold your spot in the class. The balance is due by the first session. To register, please call 619-342-7395 or email classes@moolelo.net
Class size: 9 students max
In this class, you will begin to develop the script and performance for a one-person play. Your play may be autobiographical, biographical or fictional. It may have one character, or many– all of which you will play yourself. A solo show is a fantastic opportunity to not only stretch yourself as an actor, but to also take charge of your own material and opportunities in a way that actors rarely get to do. Class time will be a combination of writing exercises, performance exercises, and in-depth workshopping of each of your plays. We will go back and forth between the writing and performance processes of your plays, so that the plays will develop from your physicalized actor’s instincts as well as your research, analysis and writing. Out of class opportunities will include reading of suggested solo performance texts and viewing recommended solo performance on video. This will help to give students a sense of the breadth of possibilities available in solo performance, and we will have in-class discussions of these texts and videos.
About the Instructor
Jennifer Barclay is an award-winning actor, playwright and teacher. As an actor, she has performed in Scotland, Austria, Chicago, California and New York, and has toured her one-woman show, Clearing Hedges, internationally. Her plays have been produced and developed by The Old Globe, South Coast Repertory, Steppenwolf, International Theatre of Vienna, Edinburgh Fringe, Kennedy Center, among others. She has won awards from The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, The Kennedy Center, The Pinter Review, Hawthorn den Castle, and Northwestern University. Jennifer is a graduate of Northwestern University (where she studied with Mary Zimmerman and Frank Galati) and UC San Diego (MFA in Theatre). She currently teaches at UC San Diego, Mira Costa College, South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe, and La Jolla Playhouse.
PAST 2012 Classes
Course Title: Monologue Boot Camp
Instructor: Jennifer Barclay
Dates: Four sessions, Tuesdays 6:30 – 9:30 PM, January 17, 24, 31, February 7, 2012
Course Fee: $250 ($200 for members of AASD, AEA, AFTRA, SAG or TCG)
Registration: A 20% nonrefundable deposit is required to hold your spot in the class. The balance is due at the first session. To register, please call 619-342-7395 or email classes@moolelo.net
Class size: 12 students
New Year’s Resolution Monologue Class
Students will get audition-ready by developing one or two monologues for performance and learning audition etiquette. The monologue is one of the most difficult and important skills to master. In this class, you will be given guidance to find audition pieces which are not over-used and which are specifically suited to you. You will learn specific techniques for performing these pieces in a truthful and effective way, including finding conflict, humor, mystery, and a truthful relationship with your imaginary scene partner. Appropriate for both beginner and intermediate actors. You can read more about the class and the instructor’s bio on our blog here.
Course Title: Stage and Story to Screen
Instructor: Stephen Metcalfe
Dates: Six sessions, Mondays, 6:30 – 8:30 PM, February 6, 13, 20, 27, March 5, 12
Course Fee: $250 ($200 for members of Dramatists Guild, LMDA, AASD, TCG, AEA)
Registration: A 20% nonrefundable deposit is required to hold your spot in the class. The balance is due at the first session. To register, please call 619-342-7395 or email classes@moolelo.net
Class size: 10 students
Description:
This class will explore both stage and screen writing: how each genre compliments and yet is very different from the other and how the differences and similarities can help us develop as writers. By reading and discussing screen adaptations of plays and plays/ musical books that have been taken from movies and by doing in-workshop exercises, we will develop both our technique and dramatic imagination. Students will have the choice of beginning or revising an original stage play; adapting a play of their own to the screen (or a screenplay to the stage), and beginning and/or developing an original screenplay. You can read more about the class and the instructor’s bio on our blog here.
