How to Put On Your Own One Person Show
Writing workshops for actors in Los Angeles with Teacher, Writer and Performer Andrea Kittelson
Acting and Writing Classes in Los Angeles
Solo Performance Workshops
The next class begins May 31, 2012 in the Writer's Room at iO West.
For more information and to register, visit the iO West registration portal.
DON'T LIMIT YOURSELF TO BE WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN OR SEEN.
Also, private coaching is available.
Tell your story, but don't feel that you have to write a first-person autobiographical narrative.
Tell your story in a highly theatrical way.
Andrea is one of only fifteen people in the country with her particular MFA degree. Andrea's MFA program at San Francisco State University was unique in that it integrated acting, writing and directing, and it required of its actors that they be the primary creators of their work. While at San Francisco State University, Andrea and her five classmates created, under the close guidance of brilliant professors, hundreds of original works.
Through this supervised play, they were forever changed. Metaphor and imagination became inextricable elements of their creative lives.
After her MFA program, Andrea started her own theater company and wrote, directed and performed numerous theatrical works, including several acclaimed solo shows.
Rachel Rosenthal and John Steinbeck are Andrea's greatest artistic influences. Andrea strives for a balance between the Postmodern and the traditional.
In her workshops and her book Andrea encourages writers and performers to be very clear about their motivation to perform, to fully utilize the elements of the theater, to embrace metaphor and to explode onto the stage their unique voices.
Andrea asks her students: What is your motivation? What is your mission? What is your message? What metaphoric world can we create to appease your motivation, accomplish your mission and get across your message?
Andrea will ask these questions and more at her next solo-show workshop. Additionally, Andrea will encourage her students to write, act and venture perilously far from their comfort zones.
Andrea's clients put on successful shows. Regina Louise brought her hit show to the LA area after a successful run in Northern California.
Here is what other clients have said:
"Andrea stretches the imagination like a trampoline and then she bounces on it" Erin S., Los Angeles
"Andrea's genius was evident after the fourth meeting when it all fell into place, and I thought, Holy sh*t!" Ally B., Los Angeles
"I AM SO ENERGIZED! I am more and more convinced of my gut feeling 'Oh, She will teach me!'...What a lottery I won!" Walker W., NYC
For more information, e-mail workshops@howtoputonyourownonepersonshow.com