Fullerton College Theatre Arts Department

Tonight’s the night. Join us this evening at 7pm via the Fullerton College Theatre Arts Department YouTube channel to celebrate the hard work of our Musical Theatre 3 students as they perform their Pop/Rock Showcase.

After a successful fall semester exploring applications of stage and scene combat in the virtual realm, Collin Bressie is back with another exciting course that will include Broadsword and Rapier/Dagger. Don’t miss this opportunity for adventure and physical storytelling through theatrical violence.

These fantastic Playwrights, Directors and Actors have been working hard to produce a professional production of these Original New Plays. Coordinated by Professors Candice M. Clasby and William Mittler, The Resident Theatre Company is back with their Annual New Works Showcase. First presented last Fall, these students have not let quarantine stand in their way of performing. Support these students by watching their LIVE VIRTUAL STREAM This Friday and Saturday at 7pm via Youtube! They will remain on our Brand New Youtube Page for The Fullerton Theatre Arts Departments Resident Theatre Company Channel. Stay Tuned for All Original Podcasts premiering next week! #theatre #fullcolltheatrearts #livetheatreathome

Join us for our New Plays Workshop. Rehearsals begin October 20th 11:10-1:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Auditions This Week and Next to fill roles in 14 Different plays. Live Virtual Performances December 4th and 5th at 7pm! All Audition information can be found Here: https://drive.google.com//1jFBpffsT7b9XJzbegSG4J-rcIohblqb email all submissions to [email protected]

Join me @candiceclasby in a welcome back conversation with adjunct faculty professor Miguel Paredes this Sunday 8.23.20 as we go Live @ 5! He’ll talk about his plans for this semesters Multi Cultural Perspectives Class THEA108 F! Come join us on Instagram Live!

Calling all ACTOR’S, DIRECTOR’S, & PLAYWRIGHT’S!!! Come explore the world of New Plays! Professor Clasby and Professor Mittler are Co-Facilitating a New Plays Workshop that will culminate in a multi-night live production event! Jump into the virtual theatre world and take part in these groundbreaking new plays! Orientation is Thursday August 27th at 12:00pm. If you can’t make it to the orientation, email Professor Clasby at [email protected] for more information! Rehearsals start October 20th! Must be available during THEA177/277 class time 11:10-1:30 on Tuesdays and Thursday’s. EAT. SLEEP. CREATE. #fullcolltheatre #fullcollNPW #newplaysworkshop #theatre #playwright #theatredirector #actorslife

This semester we are tackling the world of podcasting! Come take part in our first ever Theatre Arts podcast series EXPLORING IDENTITY. Professor Candice M. Clasby will be facilitating this devised podcast series! Learn more about the project by coming to our orientation on Monday August 24th at 2:00pm! #podcast #FCPodcast #fullcollpodcast #exploringidentitythroughart

THEA 192F: Beginning Applied Private Voice for Musical Theatre. In applied voice class, you will get to know your brain, your body, and you will train your voice like an athlete. Musical theater artists make the most versatile sounds in the world and we will explore how to make those sounds 8 shows a week with great technique so you are READY for that cruise ship job or the best days of auditioning, working a job and rehearsal at night. Be prepared to gain range and ability i...n legit and classical styles as well as belt and rock/pop, break down performance barriers, realize how an old injury or pattern has a huge impact on how we perceive that high note coming up and how to correct it for you in performance (high-payoff and right before you go onstage) versus rehabilitation in the practice room. I have online content you can use as supplemental material and I also offer cozy studio classes twice a month so we can learn from each other and build community. Praised for her bright, focused voice and passionately sculpted line endings, by The Boston Music Intelligencer, Kimberly Moller has toured as a soloist with The Boston Symphony Orchestra Pops under the direction of Keith Lockhart, and with Kristin Chenoweth at The Music Box in San Diego under the direction of Mary Mitchell Campbell. Kimberly has appeared as an actor or teaching artist at La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe San Diego, The Moonlight Amphitheater, San Diego Musical Theater, Off-Broadway Theater Company and several regional northeast theater and opera houses. Kimberly earned her MFA in Musical Theater from San Diego State University, an M.M. in Vocal Performance and a Graduate Performance Diploma in Voice Pedagogy from Boston University. Kimberly is on the Board of The National Association of Teachers of Singing in San Diego and a member of The Musical Theatre Educators Alliance. Her mentors include: Singing Athlete creator Andrew Byrne, Laurinda Nikkel (SDSU), Mary Saunders Barton (Penn State/Bel Canto can Belto method) and master Z-Health trainer Missy Bunch. Kimberly is Z-Health Essentials certified to assist with drills and mobility that impacts vocal production at the speed of the nervous system.

THEA 192F: Beginning Applied Private Voice for Musical Theatre. There is only one person in the world with your singing voice. Learn how to maximize the sound of your instrument while maintaining the vocal qualities that make you unique! In applied lessons, students will use solid vocal technique to approach a range of different styles, from legit and classical, traditional musical theatre, contemporary belt, pop, jazz, and beyond. With one foot solidly planted in the Bel Can...to tradition of singing, students will be given tools to gain control of their voice through solid warm ups, techniques tailored to meet the specific needs of each student’s instrument, and stylistic adjustments in diction and sound production. Repertoire will be carefully chosen to suit each student, with the aim of finding pieces that make each individual shine! Melissa Lyons Caldretti is honored to join the team at Fullerton College! A Fullerton native, she has been teaching voice privately for 14 years and has worked extensively in concerts and musical theatre throughout the U.S. and Canada. Most notably, Melissa traveled for several years with the Broadway Touring Company of LES MISERABLES and was the final Eponine when the production closed in 2006. She has recorded numerous voice-overs for Mattel and is the singing voice of Barbie for films, toys, albums and commercials, including the animated features Barbie as the Island Princess and Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper. Some of her other credits include: Principal soloist for California Philharmonic (Walt Disney Concert Hall); CHICAGO at the Hollywood Bowl (director Brooke Shields); SISTER ACT (Sacramento Music Circus), Shelby in THE SPITFIRE GRILL (Musical Theatre Guild); Bobby/Gabby in CITY OF ANGELS (MTG); Rose in THE SECRET GARDEN (Music Theatre West Reiner Series); Grizabella in CATS (Cabrillo Music Theatre). Melissa is a proud member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA, and Musical Theatre Guild in Los Angeles. She holds a Masters in Music, Voice Performance, from Cal State University Long Beach, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music, Voice Performance, from UCLA. Melissa has a private voice studio in Fullerton and is eternally grateful for the mentorship of her past and present voice teachers: Reid Bruton, Juliana Gondek, Timothy MacDougall, Calvin Remsberg, and Kari Windingstad.

THEA 192F: Beginning Applied Private Voice for Musical Theatre. This course offers a beginning performance experience in individual applied voice instruction and interpretation of musical theatre literature. Which meansSinging! This course will offer individual voice lessons that elevate the foundations of healthy phonation, rich musical expression and dramatic artistry. Repertoire will be selected in coordination between the teacher and student to create a distinctive learn...ing experience built upon maintaining a strong vocal technique. Anthony Moreno, DMA, began studying music at El Camino College with Professor Hedley Nosworthy and was able to perform solos with the ECC Symphony Orchestra, Community Choir, and Chorale and also served as President of the ECC Society of Music, an organization created by students to fund raise and help support the music program at El Camino. After ECC, he became a Bob Cole Scholar and a student of Shigemi Matsumoto at California State University of Long Beach. He made his operatic debut at CSULB in Massenet's Cendrillon and also performed roles in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. In 2012, he received the California State Senate Certificate of Recognition in Performing Arts and was a regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He then went on to complete his Master of Music Degree at the University of Southern California, continuing his work with Shigemi Matsumoto. There, he performed roles in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, Henze’s The English Cat and in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride. He was also a member of Cantos de Taos at the Taos Opera Institute’s and concluded a successful tour of Austria and Italy with Dr. Liam Doyle and multiple Grammy winner Daniel Ho. He recently obtained a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at USC while studying with Rod Gilfry and performed in USC’s productions of Frau Schindler, Ariadne auf Naxos and Postcard from Morocco. He also performed in LA Opera’s production of Don Carlo as well as performed the role of Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, produced by his own startup company: LtD Opera. Dr. Moreno has brought his experiences full circle and now proudly teaches as an adjunct faculty member and applied voice teacher at FCC, CSUN and ECC.

THEA 106F: Beginning Principles of Playwriting. This class introduces students to the elements of writing a play for the stage. Topics include dramatic structure, dramatic action, the relationship between dialogue and action, characterization, setting, theme, and point of view. Students will be assigned writing exercises culminating in a one-act play. Students will be expected to act in and direct other students' scenes. William Mittler was educated at UCLA and was awarded hi...s MFA in 2004. He is an adjunct theatre professor here at Fullerton College as well as MT SAC, and Santa Ana College. As a founding member of Stages Theatre Company in Orange County he has had over 30 of his original works produced including. Snow Angels, Witches Roommates and Lovers, So Alone, A World in Love, Gratuitous, Ticklepants, Decadence, Paradise, Forever, The Demon, and Mother's Daughter. He was awarded a grant from California Council for the Humanities in 2006 for his production of Tales from the Canyons, The Olinda Story, at the Curtis Theatre in Brea.(Restaged in 2017). His Play One was staged in 2018. and Other awards include Anita and Everette Farnsworth Scholarship, Fullerton College, 1993 Best Ensemble, Ticklepants, "OC Weekly", 1998 Playwright of the year, "OC Weekly", 2001 Best Director, "OC Register", 2001 Best Play, So Alone, "OC Register", 2001 James Pendleton Foundation Award, UCLA, 2003 and the Marianne Murphy Award, UCLA, 2003. Besides being an award winning playwright and director, William is a light designer, stage carpenter, and actor. He was last seen on the stage in 2017 as an actor for the Female Playwrights Initiative in LA. See more

THEA 184F: Beginning Musical Theatre 1. Josh Grisetti is an actor, director and author. As a performer, Josh originated the title roleof Marty Kaufman in It Shoulda Been You on Broadway (for which he won the 2015 Clarence Derwent Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards); he also starred in Broadway’s Something Rotten! and Neil Simon’s revival of Broadway Bound. Off-Broadway, Josh starred in Rent, Peter and the Starcatcher, Enter Laughing (...Theatre World Award winner; Drama Desk, OCC, Drama League and Lucille Lortel nominations), as well as Red Eye of Love, Candida and After the Ball. Favorite regional credits include Prince of Broadway (Tokyo), Camelot (The Kennedy Center), Matilda (The Muny), How to Succeed in Business... (Reprise Theatre Ovation & Garland Award winner), Beauty & the Beast (LaMirada), Funny Thing...Forum (Williamstown), Spamalot (Las Vegas), Grease! (Sacramento Music Circus), Where’s Charley? (Goodspeed) and others. On television, Josh starred in the ABC sitcom The Knights of Prosperity, as well as multiple series regular roles in pilots for other major networks, and has appeared on Showtime’s Nurse Jackie and MTV’s Made. Major film credits include The Immigrant, Men in Black 3, Revolutionary Road, The Namesake and others. Josh recently directed the regional premier of Something Rotten! at Musical Theatre West in Long Beach, CA, and It Shoulda Been You at Musical Theatre Guild in Los Angeles. He also teaches acting, musical theatre and business of theatre at both Fullerton College (Clinical Adjunct Professor) and Loyola Marymount University (Guest Lecturer), and authored the book, God In My Head (Tantor Media, LLC), which frequently tops Amazon.com’s best seller list in Spirituality and Religious Psychology. Follow @joshgrisetti, or visit www.joshgrisetti.com. See more

Tonight at midnight is the deadline to submit audition materials to participate in one of our two Fall Musical Theatre 1 cohorts. We look forward to reviewing everyone’s materials. If you are interested in participating in our program this Fall, there is still time to submit your materials via our audition portal. Click the link below to register: http://theatre.fullcoll.edu/part_login.php

THEA 109F: Modern Dramatic Literature. This course involves the analysis and research of contemporary dramatic literature. Through the examination of dramaturgical structure, thematic presentation, character development and production design requirements, students will explore how analysis and research can aid in the transforming of a script into a theatrical experience. This course includes play readings, lectures, discussions and student reports. Steve Biggs has an MFA in ...Performance at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Roles there included Col. Vershinin in Three Sisters, Bill Sykes in Oliver!, Kadmos in The Bacchae of Euripedes, and Robert in Proof. He also served as assistant dialect coach for Secret Garden in which he played Ben Weatherstaff. . He is also featured in the recent David Keith film, Waterville, which he helped write. He appeared as Sir Toby Belch in the North East Shakespeare Ensemble’s inaugural production of Twelfth Night. Previous to UTK, Steve worked at Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton. His portrayal of Klingon Commander Kralk can be seen in the upcoming documentary, Trek Nation and an episode of Wedding Story. Other roles have included Harold Hill in The Music Man, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Henry II in The Lion in Winter, and M. Gallimard in M. Butterfly. He also put in a six and a half year stint with Orange County’s Mystery Café during which time Steve helped create many diverse characters and even co-wrote a script, Without a Hitch, a parody of Alfred Hitchcock movies, which has been produced in San Diego, Seattle, and Minneapolis. He returned to that company (now called The Gourmet Detective) as Production Manager for a year and a half before stepping down to devote more time to his students. See more

THEA 188F: Intro to Movement and Performance Techniques for Musical Theatre. Dance class is not only about becoming versatile but about building confidence to become the most authentic YOU that embraces the stage. This class will constantly keep you on your toes as you learn a variety of dance genres and navigate what your own signature style of movement means. Building on your technique is at the foundation of this class but you will also gain skills in learning movement off... videos, create confidence without the presence of a mirror and dismantle the idea of perfection to understand that being YOU in its authentic form is what you truly need to dance. Allison Eversoll Chasteen is a dance educator, choreographer, fitness instructor and an Adjunct Professor at Fullerton College. Some of her performance appearances include Holland America Cruise Lines, Cedar Point Entertainment, Saturday Night Football Promo with Adam Levine, the Golden Globes and continues to perform, company manage and choreograph for the dance company the LAFollies. Allison has always had a love for choreographing and even more so for teaching. In the last five years, Allison has choreographed throughout Southern California for multiple theatre companies. Some of her credits include: The University of California Irvine: Company & The Pajama Game, Fullerton College: A Chorus Line & Bright Star, Worldwide Theatricals: Jesus Christ Superstar, Mary Poppins, and West Side Story. Lewis Family Playhouse: Music Man, 3 Theatre Group: American Idiot and IVRT: Damn Yankees (Scenies Award). Allison has a M.F.A in Dance, B.F.A in Dance Performance and a Certificate in Arts Management. As a teacher, she challenges herself to demonstrate through everyone's learning styles and navigates the student's needs by creating an ever-changing curriculum in her classroom. She continues to grow with her students and feels that the learning does not stop just because she is the teacher.

THEA 180F: Beginning Principles of Acting. Eric Scott Gould is an accomplished actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and teaching artist. He has performed in countless stage productions in New York City, Los Angeles, and regional theatre. On television, Eric guest starred in the pilot of the hit series, Curb Your Enthusiasm for HBO, and recurred for the first four seasons on the CBS drama, Without A Trace. Other TV credits include: Numb3rs (CBS), The District (CBS)..., Diagnosis Murder (CBS), and Another World (NBC). Eric has directed more than 50 stage productions. Recent plays include: As You Like It by William Shakespeare and Lend Me A Tenor by Ken Ludwig at Azusa Pacific University; as well as The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen at AMDA LA: College and Conservatory for the Performing Arts. As a screenwriter, Eric has sold multiple feature screenplays, and completed commissioned works for various production companies. He is a Nicholl Fellowship Semi-Finalist (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), and winner of the 2010 Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition for Best Original Comedy Pilot. Eric has taught at many of the most well-known and prestigious performing arts institutions in the country. Currently, he is on faculty at Fullerton College, UCLA, Identity School of Acting (LA and London), and CSArts. Eric teaches a vast array of courses in Acting and Directing, and students of all experience levels from beginner to professional. Eric Scott Gould holds a B.A. degree from the University of Arizona, and an M.F.A. in Acting from the Yale School of Drama. See more

THEA 184F: Beginning Musical Theatre 1. Susanna Vaughan is a performer, director, choreographer, educator, and a proud member of the Fullerton College Musical Theatre program faculty. She has performed throughout Southern California, including at The Old Globe (concert cabarets), Musical Theatre West (Singing in the Rain, My Fair Lady), Moonlight Amphitheatre (The Little Mermaid, Victor/Victoria), San Diego Musical Theatre (Hairspray), and in concert with Kristin Chenoweth at The Music Box in San Diego. She earned her M.F.A. in Musical Theatre from San Diego State University, where she mentored under Adrian Alita in Acting Pedagogy and Laurinda Nikkel in Voice. She is passionate about developing multi-faceted and compassionate artists to use their skills to create understanding across lines of human difference.

THEA 122 F: Improvisation for TV/Film & Theatre. This course involves the principles and techniques of improvisational acting designed to increase the actor's creativity, problem solving, collaboration and performance skills. This course will practice new ways of interaction and performance in a role-playing type structure. New games and ideas will be exercised to develop student awareness of the cooperative dynamics of theatre, television and film. The value of the individual actor's creative process will be structured and put to the test as we collectively create deeply meaningful characters and problem solve randomly generated conflicts. Practicing the idea of what would you do. Most importantly practicing the power of the student’s imagination to improve their overall performance capabilities.

THEA 108F: Miguel Angel Paredes is a working professional and adjunct professor at Fullerton College Theater Arts Department. His past life was spent in South Africa as a Masters student studying theatre making at the Center for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies in University of Cape Town. His life before that was as a young and hungry undergraduate excited to tell his story through theater at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His next life will be as a Hollywood Actor/Director/Producer who is able to tell his story using an intersectional framework with a foundation in critical race theory. If that last sentence sounded interesting to you, take his class! 15147 THEA 108 F Multicultural Perspectives in American Theater!

THEA 197F: Introduction to Stage Combat. This course will be a unique opportunity for students to explore how to safely create and perform illusionary violence within dramatic literature. This semester will focus on three weapons disciplines of the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD): Single Sword, Unarmed and Knife. In addition to learning the fundamental principals of stage combat, students will also be introduced to Viewpoints; which is an improvisational process ...created by post-modern dancer, Mary Overlie and further developed by stage director Anne Bogart. Viewpoints is a physically-based process, designed to help the performer develop their skills by deconstructing all the essential performance elements present in performing arts: Space, Time, Shape, Motion (kinesthetic), Emotion and Story. I like to think of Viewpoints as the actor’s theory of relativity, we observe the phenomena of our work and try to understand the very nature of living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. By the end of this course, you will develop a fundamental stage combat vocabulary and understanding of the founding principles to make non-violent actions appear dangerous and real. In addition, you will also develop a greater sense of self and relationship to others while creating a deeper understanding of the Six Viewpoints and how to apply it onstage, no matter the content or context of your performance. See more