An old leather bound book sits on my desk –gold lettering, musky smell, and weighty with the knowledge it holds. My copy of William Shakespeare’s Complete Works. Every drama nerd has one, as a proud member of that minority, so do I. It looks used, yellowing pages bookmarked to highlight my favorite passages, ones that … More College Essay Part 3
Brown University: “We all live within communities or groups of various sizes, origins, and purposes; pick one and tell us why it’s important to you, and how it has shaped you.” Written by Henry Ballesteros (2013) Every high school has them: they’re outrageous, outgoing, and (mostly) down to earth. They’re not afraid to embarrass themselves. … More College Essay’s Part 2
Written by: William Dowsett (2012) Black out. My hands are sweaty, my throat is closing: the butterflies. Trapped between two support systems compiled of two-by-fours, I maneuver meticulously so that I can peer between the plywood that separates fact and fiction, reality and fantasy, what “is” and what “could be.” Like popping light bulbs, miscellaneous … More College Essays Part 1
1. You show up every day. You make no excuses. 2. You love the work wherever and whenever you’re doing it and you don’t complain. You bring your love of acting to the audition room, set, rehearsal, class, and you carry your love of the work into every experience. You relish it. 3. You do … More 15 Things Actors Do That Make Me Happy
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. –Buckminster Fuller In the past two years we have heard a lot about Homestead’s new Trimester system and come Monday we will finish the 1st trimester ever at HHS. It’s been a rough … More First Tri leaves us…
What? Theatre should always be new. New work. New experiences. New audiences. New ideas. Theatre is a challenge. New is challenging. Theatre is creation. Creation is creative. Theatre should start when creativity starts. Young children benefit from exposure and instruction in theatre and storytelling. Creative expression enhances critical thinking skills and many types of reasoning, … More New Manifesto for the Theatre
A few months ago Kathy Sue traveled back to Wisconsin and taught a filmmaking seminar at her old Alma-mater, Homestead High School. The students were given 3 props, 4 actors and 1 location and asked to conceptualize a film using those elements… within two hours this story was ready and shot. We call this style… … More Renegade Filmmaking
<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/52793884″>AFS Variety Show 2012</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user14257475″>Homestead Theatre Department</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Pre-casting…. A terrible word for any actor, it means you don’t have a shot at the role you want. I’ve endured a couple auditions where I found out afterward that it was a pre-cast situation and that I wasted two whole days on pointless auditions. I hate when directors pre-cast. But do you know what … More Pre-Casting
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