This course in scene study is focused on honing the actor’s ability to
personalize the conflicts and circumstances of a scene to create a textured,
personal, and deeply accessible performance.
"This class was so liberating. It helped relieve me of the pressures of trying
to get the play "right", and provided me with a method for making exciting and
different choices that yield interesting, useful discoveries with every rehearsal."
- Will Clark -
  • Personalize a scene in a way that makes a character’s need and    emotional reality immediate and unavoidable to the actor.
  • Free yourself of the expectations of what a scene or role is
       “supposed” to be.
  • Develop an approach to your work to make every rehearsal a    measureable step towards a compelling and nuanced performance.
"Unlike many other scene study classes, I didn't just learn how to do
a particular scene with a particular actor in a particular setting. I learned a new
technique for approaching scenes and learned to refine that technique in order
to use it when working on other scenes and plays in my career."
- Melisa Breiner-Sanders -
The class is led by CRY HAVOC Artistic Director Kitt Lavoie,
with guest teachers from the CRY HAVOC Resident Company.
“Kitt is committed to working with each student as an individual and finding
what works for them. His scene study class really helped me shake up how I
approach rehearsal, making my performances much more active, interesting
and emotionally resonant.”
- Katelin Wilcox -
 
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7:00pm-10:30pm

10 week course for $600
 
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ABOUT THE LEAD INSTRUCTOR

Kitt Lavoie has directed more than eighty shows in New York City, including original productions of more than forty plays, and has written twenty-seven produced plays and musical books, including Twice Rather Perish, The Median Line (both winners of the Herbert J. Robinson Award for Dramatic Writing), realer than that (published by Samuel French, Inc; winner, 2009 Samuel French New Play Festival), [pwnd] (2009 NYIT Award Nominee, Best Original Short Script), Kiki Baby (NYMF 2011, libretto co-written with Tony-nominee Lonny Price), and the widely produced Good Enough, Party Girl, and Not Entirely Platonic: Variations on a Confession. Also a filmmaker, Kitt wrote and directed the film Rainbow Rabbit Reliant (Best Dramatic Short, Best Director, Audience Award - Atlantic City Cinefest) and is currently producing a documentary on the Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along. Kitt is a Member of the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers and the Dramatists Guild and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School. He is a Resident Artist and Artistic Director of The CRY HAVOC Company. Visit www.kittlavoie.com for more information.

Photography by Shirin Tinati