Auditions next week!

Auditions for Almost, Maine (directed by Ashley Kobza) and the Festival of New Plays (written by City College students, directed by Farrell Foreman, Katie Rodda, and Matt Thompson) are Jaunary 28 from 6 - 10 p.m. in the Saville Theatre.

Bring a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue.

Callbacks are January 29 (Almost, Maine) and February 1 (Festival of New Plays).

Run dates: Festival: March 4 - 12; Almost, Maine: April 15 - 24.

You can be in both shows. You must enroll for credit--add codes will be distributed after shows are cast.

Questions: Katie Rodda, krodda@sdccd.edu.

DRAM 143, Beginning Costuming, is still open!

DRAM 143, Beginning Costuming, has seats in it.

The class runs M/W from 9:35 - 12:45 in the beautiful new costume lab.

Come learn from one of San Diego's top designers, Jeannie Galioto. Check out her website: www.jeanniegalioto.com.

And if you're transferring to San Diego State University, this class articulates! (In other words, you wouldn't need to take it at State.)

You'll help build the costumes for Almost, Maine and the Festival of New Plays. Make sure to enroll ASAP!

Meet the Faculty: Introducing Matt Thompson!

Matt Thompson teaches DRAMA 109 - Theatre and Social Issues, DRAMA 132 - Beginning Acting and will direct the Festival of New Works in March. 

Professor Thompson is currently the Artistic Director of Point Loma Playhouse. He is also the co-founder and former Co-Artistic Director of New Fortune Theatre and the founding Artistic Director of Compass Theatre.   He served as the Artistic Associate / Education Director of North Coast Repertory Theatre from 2008-2012. He has directed for The La Jolla Playhouse, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Point Loma Playhouse, The Road Theatre, Molyneux Theatre, Compass Theatre and others.

Also a playwright, his plays have been published through Dramatic Publishing, Heuer Publishing, Brooklyn Publishing, Eldridge Publishing and Norman Maine Publishing respectively. His play Crosses and Stars was commissioned by San Diego Repertory Theatre. The San Diego Hall of Champions Museum  commissioned his one man play Ted Williams: A Tip of the Cap which was performed at North Coast Repertory Theatre in 2011.   North Coast Rep also commissioned Mr. Thompson to write an adaptation of The Little Mermaid, an original play about the city of Solana Beach entitled The Perfectly Preposterous Pirate Adventure of Solana Beach! as well as the holiday hit musical Mistletoe, Music & Mayhem! His non-fiction work, Solana Beach, has been published through Arcadia Publishing.

As an actor:  The La Jolla Playhouse (The Grift);  Lambs Players Theatre (West Side Story, Cold Comfort Farm); Moxie Theatre (Dead Man's Cell Phone); North Cost Repertory Theatre (Dracula, A Thousand Clowns, The Odd Couple, Leading Ladies, Don't Dress for Dinner,  Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors, Over the Tavern); Cygnet Theatre (Spring Awakening). Television: CSI, Days of Our Lives, Fraiser, Veronica Mars, The Invisible Man, Cover Me, Eighteen Wheels of Justice, Fashion House, and Baywatch.

Matt has an MA from San Diego State University in Theatre Arts and an MFA in English, Creative Writing from UC Riverside. He has taught collegiately at MiraCosta, Southwestern, Mesa, and College of the Desert and has been teaching at San Diego City College since Spring 2014.

We're happy to have Matt teaching for us!

Stage Makeup Spring 2016 - Now 2 sections available!

Meet the Faculty: Introducing Cindy Lewis!

Cindy Lewis teaches Introduction to Dramatic Art (DRAM 105) on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:35 - 11:00.

Professor Lewis is thrilled to be onboard at City College as an adjunct professor. She holds a Master of Arts in Theatre with an Education emphasis from San Diego State University where she taught Theatre for Young Audiences and was a teaching assistant for Introduction to Theatre and the History of Film Classics.  She holds a B.A. in Journalism from the University of New Mexico where she wrote for the culture and art section of The Daily Lobo. Currently she is a director and teaching artist with San Diego Junior Theatre in Balboa Park and at Paradise Hills Elementary, where she teaches literacy through acting and produces a show for each classroom.

She lived in St. Louis from 2012-14, where she was the Youth Theatre and Arts Camp Director for the Jewish Community Center. She produced six shows a year and led ten weeks of art camp that included dance, yoga, and playwriting at the JCC. She was also a teaching artist and actor with Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis.

Prior to moving to the Midwest, she worked as a teaching artist, director, and actor mentor with LifePlay Productions, North Coast Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Playwrights Project, and the San Diego Unified School District for six years. Locally, she has performed at North Coast Repertory Theatre, the Lyceum Theatre, Scripps Ranch Theatre, Coronado Playhouse, Sixth@ Penn, and with Black Kat Theatre. Cindy is also a published writer and playwright of Bus+ed, a site-specific play that tackles student relationships on an actual school bus, which is studied in the Theatre and Social Issues Class at City College. 

Welcome, Cindy!

AUDITIONS ARE COMING UP!!

Auditions for Almost, Maine (directed by Ashley Kobza) and the Festival of New Works (directed by Farrell Foreman, Katie Rodda, and Matt Thompson) are January 28 from 6 - 10 p.m. in the Saville Theatre. Bring a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue (memorized).

Callbacks are January 29 (Almost, Maine) and February 1 (Festival).

Run dates:
Festival: March 4 - 12
Almost, Maine: April 15 - 24

You can be in both productions. You must enroll for credit (add codes distributed after shows are cast).

Questions? Email Katie Rodda, krodda@sdccd.edu.

Meet the Faculty: Introducing Connie Terwilliger!

Connie Terwilliger teaches DRAM/RTVF 106, Acting for Radio/Voiceover on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:35 - 12:05.

Connie Terwilliger brings years of award-winning media production experience working both in-house and independently as a producer, writer and on and off-camera talent. Working every aspect of voice performance from radio DJ and TV Staff announcer to commercials, animation and corporate/documentary narration, she is currently a full-time voice talent working out of her professional home studio and has been teaching the Voice Acting class here at City College since 1999.

www.voiceover-talent.com

www.youtube.com/connieterwilliger