Classes, Workshops, Retreats & Lessons
Having just found a new home in Chicago, Artistic Director Molly Lyons is searching her new city for a good home for classes & workshops and both the perfect location & best timing for the AIRE event.
TUCSON 1 Day Audition Intensive: April 21
Molly Lyons, Chicago Casting Director, offers this 1-Day Audition Intensive in Tucson:
While guest directing at Invisible Theatre, Molly Lyons offers a one-day workshop. Join this knowledgeable, insightful & generous teacher, director, casting director and actor, for an audition intensive. Refresh your prepared pieces, get coached on new material.
WHEN: Saturday, April 21, 10:00am – 2:00pm
WHERE: Invisible Theatre - 1400 N. 1stAve., Tucson 85719 (cross street: Drachman near Euclid)
PRICE: $60/4 hour workshop
(Limited audit spots available for $20)
WHO: read more about Molly Lyons
WHAT: 1 hour audition seminar, Reversing the Power Structure of the Audition; and 3 hours of coaching and polishing your regional repertory audition package.
You can work on up to 3 pieces: classical monologue (verse), contemporary monologue, and song. Feel free to bring more material, just in case. (See below.)
REGISTER: on our Contact page.
This workshop is very limited in size. To get on the list, please go to Green Wood Studios’ contact page and sign up.
The coaching: You may work on up to 3 memorized pieces, standard regional repertory audition, one classical & one contemporary - UNDER ONE MINUTE EACH and do time them – and a song with which you can work. For your contemporary monologue, it’s highly recommended you use a local playwright’s work. For your classical piece, please use 10-16 lines of verse. If you wish to explore a Sonnet, they are the perfect length and there are over 150 of them. For your song, please be prepared with recorded accompaniment or sing a capella (if you are highly comfortable doing so).
Seminar, Hour 1 – tips from the other side of the table; tackling the black hole the entrance, introduction and exit of your two minutes; how to reverse the power structure and truly shine.
Coaching, Hours 2 & 3 – exercises with entrances/exits and text; personalized coaching on your material. This is a highly active workshop, with engaging exercises that are immediately applicable to your pieces.
Your Audition Package, Hour 4 - polishing your audition package. Please bring your headshot & resume.
If you want, please bring an audition outfit; optional but recommended.
Bring: water & a snack if you get hungry when you’re active. There are exercises with movement so please wear appropriate attire; jeans are not recommended. We will take short breaks around 11:00am and 1:00pm. Do bring your headshot and resume; audition outfit optional but recommended.
- We will offer classes in Auditioning, Movement, Scene Work, Shakespeare, Text and more.
- Guest Artist workshops will be offered with familiar favorites and exciting new colleagues.
- Molly Lyons is available for weekend workshops in YOUR CITY specializing in Auditioning & Shakespeare.
- Our AIRE event, Actors' International Retreat Experience, will be offered as a short event (long weekend) in the mid-west.
- Private Lessons:
Always, Molly Lyons is available for Private Lessons. Contact her to set up something either live & in person or via Skype.
TUCSON 1 Day Audition Intensive: April 21
Molly Lyons, Chicago Casting Director, offers this 1-Day Audition Intensive in Tucson:
While guest directing at Invisible Theatre, Molly Lyons offers a one-day workshop. Join this knowledgeable, insightful & generous teacher, director, casting director and actor, for an audition intensive. Refresh your prepared pieces, get coached on new material.
WHEN: Saturday, April 21, 10:00am – 2:00pm
WHERE: Invisible Theatre - 1400 N. 1stAve., Tucson 85719 (cross street: Drachman near Euclid)
PRICE: $60/4 hour workshop
(Limited audit spots available for $20)
WHO: read more about Molly Lyons
WHAT: 1 hour audition seminar, Reversing the Power Structure of the Audition; and 3 hours of coaching and polishing your regional repertory audition package.
You can work on up to 3 pieces: classical monologue (verse), contemporary monologue, and song. Feel free to bring more material, just in case. (See below.)
REGISTER: on our Contact page.
This workshop is very limited in size. To get on the list, please go to Green Wood Studios’ contact page and sign up.
The coaching: You may work on up to 3 memorized pieces, standard regional repertory audition, one classical & one contemporary - UNDER ONE MINUTE EACH and do time them – and a song with which you can work. For your contemporary monologue, it’s highly recommended you use a local playwright’s work. For your classical piece, please use 10-16 lines of verse. If you wish to explore a Sonnet, they are the perfect length and there are over 150 of them. For your song, please be prepared with recorded accompaniment or sing a capella (if you are highly comfortable doing so).
Seminar, Hour 1 – tips from the other side of the table; tackling the black hole the entrance, introduction and exit of your two minutes; how to reverse the power structure and truly shine.
Coaching, Hours 2 & 3 – exercises with entrances/exits and text; personalized coaching on your material. This is a highly active workshop, with engaging exercises that are immediately applicable to your pieces.
Your Audition Package, Hour 4 - polishing your audition package. Please bring your headshot & resume.
If you want, please bring an audition outfit; optional but recommended.
Bring: water & a snack if you get hungry when you’re active. There are exercises with movement so please wear appropriate attire; jeans are not recommended. We will take short breaks around 11:00am and 1:00pm. Do bring your headshot and resume; audition outfit optional but recommended.
