Actor's Role in This Time of Crisis by Mary McNamara - July 30, 2020
"Director Cameron Watson has been teaching acting classes in a small Hollywood theater for years; when COVID-19 made that impossible, he asked students if they would be interested in continuing online. The result was a resounding yes. “I started talking to industry friends, casting directors, agents, faculties of theater schools,” he says. “They were all asking the same questions — how are we going to re-invent acting classes, how are we going to do scenes, how are we going to move forward?” He decided that his first set of classes during the shutdown (which my daughter attended) would focus on self-taping. “That’s going to be the future for some time — how we audition, possibly how we will work.” He brought in guests, including Octavia Spencer and Allison Janney, and discovered that actors want to act and talk about the craft any way they can. “Every month I think people won’t want to come back; every month they want to come back, new people want to join, because there’s nothing else we can do.”
12 directors. 13 theatre companies. 109 actors.
A nationwide virtual production like nothing you've ever experienced.
LOVE AND INFORMATION
by Caryl Churchill
Streaming August 12th and 19th
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Recently awarded "BEST OF 2019" by AudioFile Magazine
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LANDINGS
A unique, haunting and magical short film directed by Cameron Watson.
London International Filmmaker Festival
Louisville's International Festival of Film
