Burning Coal Theatre Company Announces 8-Week Classes for Adults

Burning Coal Theatre Company's artistic director, Jerome Davis, will conduct an eight week acting class based on the concepts the legendary acting teacher, Uta Hagen. The class will take place Mondays from 7 to 10 pm, June 10 through July 29th. The class is a scene study class which emphasizes ideas discussed in Ms. Hagen's landmark book Respect for Acting. Tuition is $200. To enroll, or for more information, please call 919.834.4001. Further information may be found at http://burningcoal.org/uta-hagen/. The class is open to people of all skill and experience levels age 16 and up.

ABOUT Uta Hagen

Ms. Hagen was born in Germany and raised in the U.S. The came to New York City as a young girl, and found work as an actor with the legendary acting due Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine, playing Nina in their seminal production of The Seagull. She would play Ophelia to Eva Le Gallienne's Gertrude in Hamlet, the title role in Shaw's Saint Joan on Broadway and Desdemona to Paul Robeson's controversialOthello. Edward Albee wrote the role of Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf for Ms. Hagen. She later married the actor/educator Herbert Berghoff and went to work at his HB Studios on Bank Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. When Berghoff died, she took on the task of running the school, a task which she delighted in until her death at the age of 85 in 2004. Film roles include The Boys from Brazil with Laurence Olivier and Reversal of Fortune with Jeremy Irons. Along with Lee Strasburg and Stella Adler, she is considered one of the greatest acting teachers in America for decades.

ABOUT Jerome Davis

The founding artistic director of Burning Coal Theatre Company, Davis studied with Uta Hagen at HB Studios from 1988 to 1995. He has worked or studied with Ellen Burstyn, Adrian Hall, Richard Jenkins, Oliver Platt, Hope Davis, Amanda Peet, Steve Harris and David Wheeler. He has appeared onstage at Trinity Rep in Providence, People's Light & Theatre near Philadelphia, The Barrow Group, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Phoenix Theatre at SUNY/Purchase, Columbia University, Wellfleet Harbor Actors' Theatre and at Burning Coal. As a director, his work has been seen at Burning Coal, Lexington Actors' Guild, NC Opera, The ArtsCenter's 10x10 Festival, 29thStreet Rep, the Mint Theatre, Avalon Repertory Company and elsewhere.