EVDIV 068 - Summer Drama Intensive

Claire Karpen, Brian McManamon, Mark Olsen
This intensive is ideal for those who have had some acting experience—amateur or professional—and are eager to get back to the basics and reignite their passion, curiosity, and love of performing. Over three sessions, participants will engage in group exercises to expand our expressive tools, help us stay present and responsive, and gain the confidence to make compelling and inspired dramatic choices. Classes may include text analysis and two-to-three person scene work.

Please note, this course is a non-credit course offered exclusively through the Juilliard Extension Division. This is not affiliated with the Juilliard College Division.

An online application is required for the student to be considered for admission.

Biography: Claire Karpen is an actor, director, and teacher based in New York City. She has worked on and Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally in theater, television, and film. Select acting credits include Sylvia (Broadway), Into the Woods (Fiasco’s production at the Roundabout, McCarter, Old Globe, and the Menier in London), The Heir Apparen (CSC), Much Ado About Nothing (St. Louis Shakes), Love Life (Max), New Amsterdam (NBC) and Blue Bloods (CBS). Select directing credits include The Woodsman (New World Stages, streaming on BroadwayHD), Bernie and Mikey … (59E59), Steel Magnolias (Virginia Theatre Festival), Moscow Moscow … (Columbia University), and Trewlaney of the Wells (Juilliard). Karpen trained at Brown University and Juilliard, and is a guest faculty member for the Drama and Extension divisions. She is also a proud member of SAG/AFTRA and a Councilor of Actors’ Equity Association. Karpen is also a private acting and audition coach. More at www.clairekarpen.com

Biography: Brian McManamon, an actor, teacher, and acting coach based in New York City, teaches advanced acting at Syracuse University’s Tepper Semester Program. In addition to running a private acting studio, he has taught and/or directed at Juilliard, the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Powerhouse Theater Training Program at Vassar College, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University’s MFA Acting program, and the Public Theater. From 2015 to 2018, McManamon served as artistic director of the Shakespeare Academy at Stratford. As an actor, he has trained with some of the most respected acting teachers in America and abroad, including Ron Van Lieu, Evan Yionoulis, Mark Wing-Davey, Austin Pendleton, Peter Francis James, and John Barton. McManamon received a BFA in acting from Boston University, an MFA in acting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and a full scholarship to attend the Midsummer in Oxford program of the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University. McManamon is a proud member of the Actors Center Workshop Company and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers.

Biography: Mark Olsen was born in Denver. In addition to his undergraduate degree in theater from Trinity University, Olsen trained with many of the great master teachers in the mime and movement disciplines, attending studios in Paris, Los Angeles, São Paulo, and New York. Olsen completed additional specialty training in clowning with Cheryl McFadden, the Feldenkrais Method with Moshe Feldenkrais, the Alexander Technique with Troupe and Anne Matthews, and Yang Family Tai Chi with Don Ahn and Jeff Bolt.

Olsen is formerly the head of graduate acting at Penn State University, teacher emeritus and former secretary of the Society of American Fight Directors, and vice president of the Association for Theater Movement Educators. Olsen taught scene study and directed the industry showcase for the Columbia University graduate acting program, stage movement at Carnegie Mellon University, mask performance at Sarah Lawrence College, and stage movement for New York Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab. He has appeared on Broadway and toured internationally with mime/mask ensemble Mummenschanz. Olsen has directed many professional and university productions and, as a movement coordinator/fight director, his work has been seen on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in productions at the Signature Theatre, the Roundabout, American Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Long Wharf, Alley Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, New York Shakespeare Festival, and others. In 2010, he was part of the artistic team that won a Drama Desk award forThe Orphan’s Home Cycle. Olsen is the chair of the musical theater department for the New York Film Academy and is the author of three texts: The Actor With a Thousand Faces, The Golden Buddha Changing Masks, and Acting: Scene One.

Section I: Mark Olsen

Tuesday, June 11

Wednesday, June 12

Thursday, June 13

3:30–6:30pm ET

Section III: Claire Karpen

Tuesday, July 9

Wednesday, July 10

Thursday, July 11

3:30–6:30pm ET

Section IV: Brian McManamon

Wednesday, July 10

Thursday, July 11

Friday, July 12

3:30–6:30pm ET

(Sections are based on faculty’s availability, not separated by level differences.)

In Person Only

$405

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