Announcements
Sol Acting Academy Presents: Monologue Boot Camp
Every actor needs audition monologues to dazzle and amaze at a moment’s notice. The Monologue Boot Camp, a two-hour, nine-week class, will help you prepare a solid and appropriate monologue (or several monologues), classical and/or contemporary, for any audition situation. You’ll work with master acting teacher and coach, Robin Lane, also a stage director and Broadway officianada, in order to learn the necessary techniques to astonish your auditors, be it for an onstage production, or film and/or television.Ever wanted to be a fly on the wall at your last audition, wondering what was said about you or your performance? Robin has sat in on many auditions, and can give you top secret tips on wardrobe, personal introductions, monologue choices, and more. You may, for the first class, bring in one monologue for review (no longer than 1 and 1/2 minutes); or, if you’re not sure how to go about researching an appropriate piece, in its very first class Boot Camp will help you find and employ the proper resources. And at the end of the nine-week course, each of you will perform a chosen monologue in a showcase for an invited audience!
Ages 18 and up
When: Monday nights, starting September 20 to November 15, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Where: Sol Acting Academy, located at Nob Hill Studio
Address: 127 Bryn Mawr Drive SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106
Directions: We are located right in the heart of Nob Hill, steps from the Nob Hill Bar and Grill and the Flying Star (half a block south of Central, on Bryn Mawr, between Central and Silver) – lots of free parking
Cost: $185, plus applicable tax
Register: @ http://www.solacting.com, or call with questions @ 505-206 -7707
Url: http://solacting.com/category/adult
Vaudeville Kings & Queens of Hollywood Comedy fest at Guild Cinema Sept 17-22
Virtually every starring or featured comedian (male and female) making comedy films in the silent and pre-WWII era of Hollywood had honed their skills in vaudeville. Mouthing funny lines written by others was not enough to win their enduring place in the pantheon of film comedy. In vaudeville, a comedy performer needed to learn basic acrobatic technique, to juggle, dance and sing as well as act and engage in well-timed witty repartee.Most of the comedians on screen at the Guild Cinema (Friday, September 17th through Wednesday, September 22) did their own stunts (no CGI or stunt men), took a hand in the writing and directing of their films. Through distinctively original posture, movement, voice and costuming, they created immediately identifiable and enduring screen characterizations.
Join ATG member, Frank Cullen at the Guild, as he introduces each of the six classic Hollywood comedies from the Golden Age of Film Comedy every day and engages audiences in discusssion. The films are paired into three double bills:
September 17 & 18 (Friday & Saturday):
Laurel & Hardy and James Finlayson in Way Out West at 3 and 7 pm;
Stan & Ollie out West? With all those naughty badmen around?!
The Four Marx Brothers and Margaret Dumont in Duck Soup at 5 and 9 pm;
Groucho rules Fredonia; Chico & Harpo are spies; Margaret Dumont dithers.
To War! To War! Hilarious satire.
September 19 & 20 (Sunday & Monday):
Mae West and Cary Grant in I’m No Angel at 3 and 7 pm;
Mae West wrote and cast (as well as starred in) this her funniest film, the movie that rescued Paramount Pictures from bankruptcy.
Abbott & Costello and Joan Davis in Hold That Ghost! at 5 and 9 pm;
One of the top 2 or 3 best of Bud & Lou’s many movies, thanks to Joan Davis, Lou Costello and a spooky, deserted roadhouse.
September 21 & 22 (Tuesday & Wednesday):
W. C. Fields, Una Merkel, Franklyn Pangborn, Cora Witherspoon and Shemp Howard in The Bank Dick at 3 and 7 pm;
Fields, the town lush nabs bank robbers (sort of). What the hell, Shemp; pour me double.
Olsen & Johnson, Martha Raye, Mischa Auer, Slim & Slam, Shemp Howard and Whyte’s Lindy Hoppers at their best in Hellzapoppin at 5 and 9 pm.
Inventive madness. THE cult film of comedy!
“Bless Me, Ultima” New Mexico touring schedule
The Vortex Theatre is proud to announce that its sold out production of Bless Me, Ultima, written and adapted for the stage by Rudolfo Anaya, will tour several New Mexico cities in October and November. A joint production of The Vortex and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, with funding in part from New Mexico Arts and National Endowment for the Arts, the performance schedule is shown here. Please contact the various venues for specific times and ticketing.October 8-10; presented by Santa Fe Performing Arts at Santa Fe Armory for the Arts
October 14; presented by New Mexico Tech Performing Arts Series at Macey Center; Socorro, NM
October 15; presented by Santa Rosa High School
October 22-23; presented by Clovis Community College Cultural Arts at Marshall Auditorium
October 29; presented by New Mexico Highlands University at Ilfeld Auditorium, Las Vegas, NM
November 12-14; presented by National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
November 16-17; presented by Northern New Mexico College, Espanola, NM
November 19; presented by Mimbres Region Arts Council at Western New Mexico University Fine Arts Center, Silver City, NM
CALL FOR SCRIPTS: Don’t Blink - A Vortex 10 minute Playfest!
DON’T BLINK! at THE VORTEX is a national 10 minute play festival created to foster and showcase new works by all playwrights. The Vortex Theatre’s ongoing mission is to produce stimulating multi-cultural classical, contemporary and cutting edge plays on a minimal budget. The Vortex is a 33 year old non-Equity theatre in Albuquerque, NM.SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 2010 based on postmark.
THE 8 PLAYS CHOSEN will receive a FULL PRODUCTION and a 5 WEEK RUN from February 4 – 27th, 2011. The playwrights of these 8 chosen scripts will be notified personally, as well as posted on our website (vortexabq.org) by November 10, 2010.
A $250 CASH PRIZE will be awarded to the playwright whose play is selected as best play of festival by audience favorite (votes polled during production run). The winner will be notified personally, as well as posted on our website (vortexabq.org), at the end of production run.
Vortex board and staff members are not eligible.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
• Each script must be no more that ten (10) pages long and run approximately ten minutes. Please use 12 pt. font.
• Please submit only original, unpublished, never produced work (past staged reading of play permitted). Previously submitted plays, musicals, children’s shows, and any unsolicited longer one act or full length play should not be submitted.
• Each playwright may submit up to two different scripts. No playwright can have more than one play produced. Send us your best!
• No submission fee is required.
• Each manuscript must be typed and staple bound with pages numbered. Please format your submission in accordance with standard play script format.
• Submit three (3) hard copies and one (1) electronic copy for each script.
– Hard copies: We require a single separate information page for each play that you enter. On this separate page indicate:
1) TITLE 2) PLAYWRIGHT NAME 3) EMAIL ADDRESS 4) MAILING ADDRESS
5) PHONE NUMBER 6) A SHORT BIO OF PLAYWRIGHT AND SYNOPSIS OF PLAY
Please do not staple this page to the script copies. This page will be separated from the script before being read by a blinded panel. THIS SEPARATE PAGE IS THE ONLY
PLACE YOUR NAME WILL APPEAR. Playwright’s name will not be known to the play-reading panel.
– Electronic submissions should include your name, title and phone number in body of email. Electronic submissions should be sent to
– Submissions which do not follow these specific requirements will be disqualified.
• We are unable to return scripts – save postage. No SASE required.
• All legal clearances in the script are the sole responsibility of the playwright.
• The Vortex Theatre is not responsible for lost or damaged scripts.
• There are no restrictions on subject matter. Cast size limited to no more than four actors.
• Minimal set, costume and sound requirements. A repertory set and lighting plot will be used.
• All plays must be submitted in a flat (unfolded) envelope to:
DON’T BLINK! at THE VORTEX
2004½ Central Ave. SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106• Plays must be postmarked by October 15, 2010.
EMCT Performing Arts Camp and after-school-program instructor wins national award
Tijeras resident Lauren Albonico, who teaches EMCT’s after school theatre program and summer theatre camp has won the prestigious Don and Elizabeth Doyle Fellowship which is given to an outstanding graduate-level student who has demonstrated artistic ability in the area of Theatre for Youth. In addition, her original plays for young audiences were also a contributing factor in receiving the award. She has worked professionally in theatre as an educator, director, actor, designer, and playwright in St. Louis and Chicago before her move to New Mexico. She is a current M.A. candidate in Theatre Education and Outreach at UNM and the director of this summer's upcoming Shakespeare on the Rail project-- a collaborative program with the NM Rail Runner. She was in San Francisco last week at the American Alliance for Theatre and Education where she accepted the award. Lauren is teaching EMCT’S fall after-school theatre program on Mondays for teens only and Thursdays for kids ages 8-12. For more information, e-mail us at:Back to Main Callboard >>
