Ridgefield Theater Barn Presents Developing Your Acting Career, Through 8/28

The Ridgefield Theater Barn is thrilled to be able to offer an adults-only acting class this summer, to be taught by Susan Grace Cohen of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, where she has been a faculty member for 20 years.

Among Ms. Cohen's former students: James Gandolfini (Sopranos), Linda Hamilton (Terminator 1 & 2) Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark), James Spader (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Boston Legal, Race-currently on Broadway), Melora Walters (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Big Love), Steven Buscemi (Fargo, Sopranos), Mel Harris (thirtysomething), Justin Chambers (Grey's Anatomy), Heather Juergensen (Kissing Jessica Stein) and Sarah Burns, (I Love You, Man).

With John Strasberg, son of the late Lee Strasberg, Ms. Cohen owned and operated a private acting studio in New York City, Paris, Barcelona and Madrid. She coaches principals for Broadway, Off Broadway, film and television. She was honored to represent the United States in the work of Lee Strasberg, at the Metodi Festival in Tuscany, where guest master acting teachers and directors from throughout the world were represented.

She is author of Bridging the Gap, Student to Professional Actor, and is a contributing essayist to the online newspaper, Soul of the American Actor. Recently, Ms. Cohen received the James L. Hearst Guest Lecturer Award in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa. She has led acting workshops at Pace University, Miami Dade Community College and The Bank Street College of Education.

Recently, Ms. Cohen was an associate casting director for Universal Studio's production of It's Complicated starring Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin.

Class Details

Developing Your Acting Career

Eight consecutive Saturday morning classes
(16 hours of class training)

10 am to 12 noon
July 10 - August 28, 2010

$320 for Ridgefield Theater Barn members
$340 for non-members

To assure that every student receives adequate attention, class size is limited to 14 students. This is an adults only course; minimum age 18. All levels of experience are welcome.

Please register by Friday, June 25th so the information is received in time for Ms. Cohen to plan for your participation in the class.

Additional details on our website at www.ridgefieldtheaterbarn.org

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