Broadway Teachers Workshop – Directing Workshop 2017 Schedule (*subject to change)
Sunday, July 16, 2017 All workshops at Pearl Studios; 500 8th Avenue, 12th Floor, Studio 1209 & 1212
9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
STUDIO 1209: Registration/ Welcome/ Meet and Greet Your Peers
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
GROUP A: STUDIO: 1209: BEFORE THE FIRST REHEARSAL with SETH SKLAR HEYN (Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera)
Preparation is everything for a director. This class will explore methods and practices for successful pre- production, from design collaboration and process to dramaturgy, casting, scheduling, promotion and delegation.
Seth Sklar-Heyn is Executive Producer and Associate Director for the 2017 Broadway revival of Miss Saigon, Production Supervisor for the Broadway production of THE Phantom of the Opera, and Associate Director for the new North American touring production of Phantom of the Opera that opened in the fall of 2013. Seth directed the 2009 U.S. Tour of Frost/Nixon, starring Stacy Keach and Alan Cox, and the 2013 U.S. Tour of Evita (both based on Michael Grandage’s original staging). Seth was Executive Producer for the 2014 Broadway revival of Les Miserables and he has worked as an Associate Director and Assistant Director on Broadway productions including: Evita (Associate Director), A Little Night Music (Associate Director), Fininan's Rainbow (Associate Director), Good Vibrations (Associate Director), Mary Stuart(Assistant Director), Rock'N'Roll (Assistant Director), The Coast of Utopia (Assistant to the Director). Seth was also the Resident Director for the second national U.S. Tour of Billy Elliot from 2010 to 2011. Broadway stage management credits include: Legally Blonde, The History Boys, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Producers, A Christmas Carol (MSG), Taboo, The Phantom of the Opera (Broadway and U.S. Tour), Cabaret (Studio 54), and Seussical. Since 2013, Seth has served as the Executive Producer for Cameron Mackintosh Inc. in N.Y. Graduate of Vassar College.
GROUP B: STUDIO 1212: BREAKING DOWN THE PLAY with Tony Nominee SHERYL KALLER
The work of a director ranges from approaching the text, to articulating an active point of view for the production to working with actors in rehearsal. This class will focus on text analysis to mine all the relevant information in the text itself, identify the elements that create the world of the text and their potential influences on the production overall as well as breaking down scenes for simple and clear direction and blocking in the rehearsal room/classroom.
Sheryl Kaller has Broadway credits that include Terrence McNally's Mothers and Sons and Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Director. She has directed at many theatres including Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, The New Group, Huntington, Pasadena Playhouse, Primary Stages, Williamstown Theatre Festival, American Conservatory Theater, New York Stage and Film, Geffen Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and Naked Angels. She has directed and developed a number of new plays and musicals with writers including Nick Blaemire, Billy Porter, Christopher Durang, Geoffrey Nauffts, Regina Taylor, Daniel Beaty, Dick Beebe, and Alan Menken.
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
GROUP A: STUDIO: 1209: BREAKING DOWN THE PLAY with Tony Nominee SHERYL KALLER
GROUP B: STUDIO 1212: BEFORE THE FIRST REHEARSAL with SETH SKLAR HEYN (Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Opera)
Program Coordinators biographies:
Morgan Holbrook is a stage manager working in New York. Most recently, he was the Assistant Stage Manager on the Broadway revival of Six Degrees of Separation with Allison Janney. Other Broadway credits include The Cherry Orchard with Diane Lane, Blackbird with Michelle Williams and Jeff Daniels, The Gin Game with James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, and The Audience with Helen Mirren. Morgan received a BFA in Stage Management from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Christopher Kee Anaya-Gorman Broadway: The Father with Frank Langella (Sub SM/PA), The Gin Game with James Earl Jones (PA). National Tours: Aladdin. NYC Credits: NY Fashion Week, On The Eve concert (Joe's Pub) and Orestes (New School Drama). Regional favorites: Evita (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), Baskerville at Cleveland Play House, The Importance of Being Earnest, Man of La Mancha (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Elmer Gantry (Signature Theatre) La Cage Aux Folles (Goodspeed Musicals), 50th Anniversary Greenshows (Utah Shakespeare Festival), The Kite Runner (Arizona Theatre Company).
Co-Artistic Directors’ biographies:
Gordon Greenberg directed the hit West End revival of Guys And Dolls, which was nominated for six Olivier Awards and played at both the Savoy Theatre and later the Phoenix Theatre, starring Rebel Wilson. He co-adapted Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn for Universal Stage Productions, which he directed on Broadway at Roundabout’s Studio 54. It was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and was filmed for PBS. His stage adaptation of Disney’s Tangled is currently playing on Disney Cruise Lines. Other current projects include co-writing Emerald City Music Hall, a movie musical for Nickelodeon, The Heart Of Rock and Rolls for Huey Lewis Productions, The Secret of My Success for Universal Stage Productions, and Port Au Prince, a commission for The New Group. Other credits include writing an original movie musical, Scramble Band, for the Disney Channel, directing and revising the Drama Desk Award winning production of Studs Terkel's Working at 59 East 59, Broadway In Chicago (Jeff Award nomination), The Old Globe and Asolo, which he developed with Stephen Schwartz and Lin Manuel Miranda. Rags (Roundabout, workshop), Johnny Baseball (Williamstown), The Single Girls Guide (Book Writer, Dallas Theatre Center, Capital Rep.), West Side Story (MUNY), the U.S. national tour of Guys & Dolls, the Off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well… (Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Award noms), Band Geeks! (also co-writer – recipient of NEA and NAMT grants for production at Goodspeed), Disney’s Believe (created with Kirsten Childs – Disney Creative Entertainment), Pirates! Or Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder’d (created w/Nell Benjamin – MUNY, Huntington, Goodspeed, Paper Mill), the Lortel nominated best Off-Broadway musical 2010 We The People (Theatreworks USA, Lortel Theatre), 33 Variations (Capital Rep), Floyd Collins (Signature), Happy Days (First National Tour, Bob Boyett Theatricals; Paper Mill, Goodspeed, redeveloped with Garry Marshall), Yentl (revision with Jill Sobule, Asolo Rep.), 1776 (Paper Mill), Citizens Band: The Panic Is On (Spiegeltent, NY), The Baker's Wife (revised and reworked with Joe Stein and Stephen Schwartz for Goodspeed and Paper Mill Playhouse), O. Henry’s Lovers (Goodspeed), Cam Jansen (by Larry O’Keefe & Nell Benjamin, Lambs Theatre), the National Tour of Peter Pan (Big League), The Broadway Divas tours of the U.S., Canada and Brazil and numerous television commercials. Born in Texas and raised in New York, Greenberg performed in his first Broadway show at age 12. He attended Stagedoor Manor, R.A.D.A., Stanford University and NYU Film School. He is a member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
Pam Pariseau was most recently the Creative Development Director for Stage Entertainment (Anatasia, Rocky and Big Fish.) She has also served as Vice President of James Hammerstein Productions, a theatrical production company that works on and off-Broadway and in London’s West End, for the past decade. Broadway credits include Honeymoon in Vegas, Tracy Lett’s play Superior Donuts and The Seagull with Kristin Scott Thomas and Peter Saarsgard. West End productions include Dealer’s Choice, Sunday in the Park with George and Dirty Blonde (directed by James Lapine and featuring the original Broadway cast). Off- Broadway credits include Bat Boy The Musical (music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe), Slut, The Big Bang, My Name Is Rachel Corrie (directed by Alan Rickman) and Our Town. This production of Our Town has the distinction of being the longest-running professional production of Our Town in history and was the winner of the 2009 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival and Outstanding Director. She has served as Creative Director of National Artists Management Company (producers of the Broadway production of CHICAGO), Casting Director and Literary Manager for Musical Theatre Works (a developmental non-profit dedicated to new Musicals) and Artistic Director of the Helen Hays Performing Arts Center in Nyack, New York and the Chiswick Park Theatre in Sudbury, Massachusetts. She received the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, The Boston Conservatory. Along with Co-Director Gordon Greenberg, she founded the Broadway Teaching Group, a full service arts education program for theatre educators and students.