Now is the time go get your questions about the “Biz” answered by veteran actor Tony Sears! Get guidance on where to get started, how to prepare for an audition, and work on cold readings.

Below is more detailed information about this fantastic one day workshop, and the teacher, Tony Sears! Please let us know if you’d like to register for this workshop!

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ACTING AND THE BIZ: AN INTRODUCTION  Led by Tony Sears

Veteran actor, director, producer Tony Sears brings to this Intensive his experiences from years of working in the industry in Los Angeles. In this one-day, 5-hour course, we will focus on what it means to be a professional actor. We will talk about what makes a good headshot, review resumes and discuss how to handle an audition or interview. We will focus on cold reads for Television and Film. There will be one 20-minute break. Please bring sack lunch.
Nov 15      (1 class)      Saturdays      10am-3pm      $61      DRAX 3034 101

Read more about Tony:
Actor/director Tony Sears studied Drama at Furman University, The University of Georgia, and l’Institut des Etudes Européenes in Paris.  He spent several years as the Associate Artistic Director of the Hilton Head Island Playhouse (now the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina) before moving to Los Angeles, where he spent 20 years working on both sides of the camera.
He worked in the Art Department of several films and TV shows, including three seasons of the series Star Trek: Voyager, assisting Emmy Award winning production designer Richard James. Sears later returned as an actor in two episodes of Voyager, playing a Starfleet Officer and the Borg Drone, Four of Twelve.

Tony has appeared in numerous roles for film, television, and stage and has directed many theater productions on both coasts.   He played Dr. Davies in season six of Lifetime’s Army Wives, and has made guest appearances on such popular shows as Drop Dead Diva, Dallas, Devious Maids, ALIAS, Judging Amy and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  He has also produced and directed for the camera, including Public Service Announcements, Industrials, a documentary (The Queen of Sunset Boulevard) and several short films.

Sears first began experimenting with kinetic energy in performance at The University of Georgia, under the direction of the late August Staub.  In Los Angeles he trained and later taught with Darryl Hickman, exploring the Actor’s use of moment-to-moment energy.  Before coming to Austin, he taught his own acting workshop in North Hollywood, where he experimented with how the creative imagination informs the flow of real-time, organic energy through an organized structure, free of “acting tricks.”  Sears encourages actors to tell their story.  They may use the author’s words, wear wardrobe’s clothing, stand where the director tells them, but it is the actor who ultimately breathes life into the role.

Sears is currently developing a television series based on characters from the Mary Magruder Katz novels by Barbara Levenson and in pre-production for the feature film, Jimmy & Mia which he will direct in and around Austin, TX.

 

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— Let me give you what I consider to be the one thing that really does distinguish us from all the other animals.  And it is simply this: we are the only animal who consciously and intentionally creates art.  We are the only animal who has invented the metaphor, the arts, to define consciousness to ourselves, to define ourselves to ourselves.  We are the only one that does this.

An excerpt from Edward Albee’s 1998 speech to the American Council on the Arts