1. Horace Mann
Summer Theatre Intensive
for Teens

2. HM Students "Intense" about Theatre this Summer
Posted 07/06/2010 04:21PM
• HM's Summer Theatre Intensive is designed for teens and pre-college students
ages 15 to 19 who wish to raise the level of their acting skills. Ten students- HM
and non-HM- did just that this summer from June 14-26. The two-week program,
held in HM's Alfred Gross Theatre, Black Box Theatre, and the Cooper Dance
Studio, featured a faculty of four distinguished professional performers and
directors, all who returned for the second time this year.
• Susan Ryan, Head Teacher and Workshop Host, led the students daily in the
Company Class, including vocal and physical warm-up, and an introduction to
"Viewpoints," a technique of improvisation. Ms. Ryan is an Assistant Teacher of
Voice and Speech for NYU Undergraduate Drama, Playwrights Horizons Theater
School. She is an Assistant Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework™. Susan is skilled in
the movement disciplines of Viewpoints and Contact Improvisation. She has
studied Suzuki with the SITI Company and has been trained in Practical Aesthetics
by members of the Atlantic Theater Company.

3. Shakespeare’s Language
&
Practical Aesthetics
by David Mamet & William H. Macy
• The students also worked with Guest Artist Francine Zerfas, who is the Head of the
Voice and Speech Department at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, an
undergraduate studio of NYU, an Instructor of Voice at Atlantic Theater's
Conservatory Program and their Summer Advanced Intensive Program in
Vermont. Ms. Zerfas teaches a physical approach to Voice and Speech work using
the heightened language of Shakespeare.
• The students then worked with faculty from the Atlantic Theater Acting School,
who taught Practical Aesthetics, the acting and script analysis technique
developed by David Mamet and William H. Macy, founders of the Atlantic
Theater Company.

4. Mask Work
Aole Miller
• During the final three days of the Intensive, students did some
Mask Work with Aole Miller, Creative Director of STUDIO 5,
Executive Director of the International Antonin Artaud Fringe
Theatre Festival, the Producing Director of New Moon Rep. in
Brooklyn, and Director of the Bali Conservatory, Indonesia.
• In addition to being the first African American Ceremonial Mask
Dancer of Bali, Aole coached Michelle Williams for her Academy
Award nominated performance in Brokeback Mountain directed
by Ang Lee.
• Aole returned to HM after a year of teaching in Singapore. Aole's
work is very physical and involves a great sense of imagination, play
and fun!

5. Mask Work with authentic
Balinese Masks

6. Links to Guest Artists and their Affiliated
Artistic Organizations
Atlantic Theater Company
https://atlantictheater.org/
Fitzmaurice Voicework (Susan Ryan, Aole Miller, Francine Zerfas)
http://www.fitzmauricevoice.com/
Playwrights Horizons Theater School
https://tisch.nyu.edu/drama/about/studios/playwrights-horizons-theater-school/
Susan Ryan (Voice – Viewpoints)
http://fitzmauricevoice.com/author/susan-ryan/
Francine Zerfas (Physcial Approach to Shakespeare’s language)
https://atlanticactingschool.org/francine-zerfas/
Aole Miller (Mask Work)
http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/academics/aole-miller/