Teens and Tweens Acting Workshop
Posted on October 07, 2015
Dates: Saturdays, Feb 2nd - Feb 23 (4 week on-going workshops)
Time: 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Cost: $150.00
To reserve your spot email info@benjydobrin.com.
For those of you who are new to the Teens & Tweens class, this class is a great mix of FUN specific individual training combined with group scene work, acting and improvisational games, and auditioning techniques, all designed to help your children become the best actors that they can be. Class is designed to address two specific concepts: 1. Helping the actors to refine their craft and hone their acting skills to the best of their ability, and 2. Helping the actors to truly begin to develop the crucial audition skills necessary to get competitive and ultimately get the job. All classes are rooted in the classic BDS style, where a nurturing and FUN environment paves the way for an incredible learning experience to take place.
In this exciting and highly creative on-going workshop, Kevin Cox will engage your children and spark their imaginations to create new worlds and exciting characters.
BDS: How would this workshop benefit teens and tweens?
Benjy: This class is geared specifically for our younger actors in the teen and tween range. The class aim is to teach each student at their individual level through a highly creative process. Whether they have been acting for years or are just starting out, they are taught a specific, behavior-based, process that will allow them to create 3 dimensional characters and have a lot of fun in the process.
BDS: What are some of the subjects you will cover throughout this workshop?
Benjy: We will be playing a lot of fun and creative improv games that will expand the teen’s and tween’s imagination and allow them to create characters on the spot teaching them to think on their feet. These improv games will also teach them to listen to their scene partners, which is an important relationship skill-set that can be carried throughout life. We will then be working on breaking down specific scenes that will be given to them in class. They will be taught a process for bringing the character to life and presenting real people in a real place. Some of these include playing around with different objectives that the character is trying to achieve, experimenting with various behavioral techniques, and different tactics for their fully formed characters to achieve a specific goal within the scene. We will also work on cold read techniques that will allow the actors to present an interesting scene even when not memorized.
BDS: What will the Teen’s and Tween’s leave with at the end of this workshop?
Benjy: Not only will they leave with new friends and a freshly inspired imaginations, they will also leave with a better understanding of how to review a script and take a character from mere words on a page to a living, breathing, and believable person in a real place. They will also have lots of fun in a safe and creative environment.
To reserve your spot email info@benjydobrin.com.
About Kevin Cox
Kevin Cox is a professional actor living in Denver, Colorado. Most recently, Kevin booked a supporting role in the western series THE GUNSLINGERS. Earlier this year he was the first runner-up in a nationwide audition search for the lead role in the indie film THE DRIVER by Executive Producer, Forest Whitaker. Kevin has studied and worked in NY, Los Angeles and New Mexico. While in Los Angeles, Cox landed roles in a variety of T.V. series including the CBS series TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, ABC’s SNOOPS and ARREST AND TRAIL created by LAW AND ORDER creator Dick Wolf. Along with his T.V. appearances Cox played a small part in the family action film DURANGO KIDS. Over the years Kevin has studied with some of the countries premier acting coaches Allan Miller, Suzanne Shepherd, George Morison, Paul Sills and Ellen Gerstein. He continues to sharpen his own acting skills by attending weekly workshops with Benjy Dobrin at Benjy Dobrin Studios.