Hello Everyone

Well the first panel discussion is only a few weeks away and I am delighted to announce the panel members for that discussion.

Ms Marcelle Schmitz ( professional actor /director/teacher/lecturer. Winner of Equity awards for Direction and Acting)

Mr Benj D'Addario ( Professional Actor, WAAPA graduate and founder of Red Ryder Productions)

Mr. Stephen Lee ( Professional Actor/Director. Winner of Best Actor ITA Finley Awards)

Mr Stuart Haluszkiewicz ( Professional Actor/ Teacher /Trained with the RSC and recent Adjudicator for DramaFest)

Mr Craig Williams ( Professional Actor/Lecturer)

This outstanding panel will be telling us their thoughts and impressions on community theatre acting and acting in general. We learn by watching others perform, by performing ourselves and by hearing what people outside the square think of our work.

This is an amazing opportunity for all of us to listen to these people and find out what we can all do to work towards "raising the bar". When professional actors are constantly taking classes and learning more and more from others , it would seem to be logical that community theatre practitioners would be doing the same thing.

There will be ample time for questions and discussion after the panel and there will also be time set aside for networking, another excellent opportunity to arise from this idea.

One week after the panel, one of the members of the panel will be taking a master class based on the panel discussion. Further details about this will be announced on the night of the discussion.

I urge everyone in community theatre to come along and hear what these people have to say. We may not like all of it but we will learn and we will be challenged and we will hopefully be inspired to continue what it is we do.

7.30pm 17th October
Lotteries House

Kerri

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