The Mariposa County Arts Council’s Theatre Alliance is pleased to offer an Acting Fundamentals workshop this summer taught by Connie Stetson. The workshop will begin on Tuesday, June 23rd and run for six weeks from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Bodie Room at the Yosemite Bug Spa and Resort. This 6-week workshop is designed for beginning actors and for those with experience but would like to brush up their skills, those who are curious, planning on auditioning, or just want to have some fun. This workshop will explore basic movement, speech, memorization, the creation of character, confidence, and effective auditioning.
Ms. Stetson studied at Santa Monica College, UCLA, The Groundlings, and in various workshops, acting classes, and theaters from LA to NYC. She has been Molly in the “Unsinkable Molly Brown”, in “Gypsy”, “West Side Story”, “Guys and Dolls”, and has been featured in many other musicals, comedies, dramas, and was most recently in “Noises Off ” at Playhouse Merced. She began directing and teaching in El Portal in 1989 and continued to do that until her move to Midpines in 1999.
Upon moving to Midpines, Connie was contacted by Mountain Crisis Services to direct “The Vagina Monologues” as a fundraiser and did that successfully for five years. She then produced “Love Letters” and “Almost, Maine” to sold out houses. Connie also performed for thirteen seasons, a one-person show,“Sarah Hawkins Contemplates a Fourth Marriage” in Yosemite National Park.
The registration fee for this 6 week workshop is $120 and proceeds will benefit the Mariposa Theatre Alliance, a new program of the Mariposa County Arts Council.
Special thanks to Doug Shaw and Caroline McGrath for the use of the Bodie Room.
To register for this workshop call the Arts Council at: (209) 966-3155 or for more information please see the Arts Council’s website: www.mariposaartscouncil.org.
The Arts Council, is an incorporated not-for-profit organization, created to promote and support all forms of the cultural arts, for all ages, throughout Mariposa County and is supported in part by the County of Mariposa, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and the California Arts Council, a state agency.
