ACTING CONSERVATORY GRADES 7-12

SCHOOL OF THEATRE

Conservatory Overview Sample Curriculum The Acting Conservatory offers comprehensive acting, voice, and movement Acting for the Camera training to students who aspire to achieve a career on stage or in film and Audition Technique television. The conservatory curriculum places a heavy emphasis on the study Dance for Actors of Shakespeare and on-camera acting, as well as the techniques of Improvisation Boleslawski, Stanislavski, and Hagen, among others. Students also learn the Movement Styles history of theatre and of the craft. The caring and dedicated faculty is Playreading comprised of industry professionals who work to build students’ essential Production industry and life skills, such as confidence, presence, focus, connection, Shakespeare listening, creativity, imagination, and tenacity. Singing for Actors Stage Combat Stage Makeup Theatre History Voice and Diction

APPLY ONLINE TODAY! www.ocsarts.net/ApplyNow 1010 N. Main Street, Santa Ana, CA 92701 | 714.560.0900 Performance Opportunities The Acting Conservatory presents both traditional and out-of-the-box productions each year, including new works, which enable students to put their training into practice and learn and grow in performance. Students perform in plays, classroom performance projects, showcases, and more. They also have the opportunity to participate in OCSA’s Season Finale, a performance in late spring featuring all arts conservatories and presented at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

Past Guest Artists and Master Teachers Debbie Allen Susan Egan Eden Espinosa Harry Groener Marvin Hamlisch Ed Harris Jerry Herman Michelle Krusiec Christopher McDonald Matthew Morrison Alice Ripley Krysta Rodriguez Anna Deavere Smith

CONTACT INFORMATION Unique Experiences JOHN WALCUTT The Acting Conservatory encourages the development of practical life skills Director, Acting beneficial to students’ futures. Students interested in entering the professional 714.560.0900 ext. 6201 | [email protected] industry have the unique opportunity to audition for the annual Actors Showcase, which provides direct exposure to Hollywood agents, managers, and Mr. John Walcutt earned a Master of Fine Arts from USC’s casting directors. professional actor training program; he also studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in Los Angeles. He has more than 35 years of experience on stage and screen as a professional actor and director, a film and theatre producer, and a screenwriter.

Mr. Walcutt has worked on nearly 200 film and television projects with more than 100 guest-starring roles, including Titanic, Mulan, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost, Criminal Minds, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. For many years, he www.ocsarts.net/ApplyNow was the artistic director of Shakespeare Orange County, where he played Macbeth, Malvolio, and Richard III, among Translated materials available upon request. many other roles. Mr. Walcutt has won the Screen Actors Email [email protected]. Guild Award and the Golden Ace Award, as well as the award for Best Director at the Indie Fest and the Las Vegas Film Festival. He was named by Orange County Register as one of the Most Influential People in Arts and Culture for 2014.

STEPHANIE DORIAN Assistant Director, Acting 714.560.0900 ext. 5533 | [email protected]