F3B. From Page to the Stage
Literature & Writing | Available
Description: This course uses Sam Shepard’s play Fool for Love to explore the art and artistry of producing a play on Broadway. Participants should read the play before the class starts. They will be assigned to groups, in which they will have to select a Broadway theater and work on the major elements of producing a play—walking through the steps of capitalization and investment, budgeting, unions, marketing, casting, hiring directors and designers, the rehearsal process, previews, opening night, and sustaining a commercial run in a competitive New York market.
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Margot Harley
Presenter
Margot Harley co-founded the Acting Company with the late John Houseman in 1972. She produced numerous Broadway and off-Broadway award-winning plays. She was administrator of the drama division of the Juilliard School from 1968 to 1980 and has appeared in several Broadway and off-Broadway productions as an actress and a dancer. Ms. Harley is a member of the National Theatre Conference and on the Board of the British American Drama Academy. She received the Acting Company’s John Houseman Award in 2002.
Judith Anastasia
Producer
Ian Belknap
Presenter
Ian Belknap is the artistic director of New York Stage and Film. Founded in 1985, Stage and Film has been an incubator for new work for Broadway, off Broadway, and theaters nationwide. Stage and Film has been a part of the Hudson Valley arts community since its inception with a founding partnership at Vassar College and currently enjoys a relationship with Marist College, which hosts its summer residency programs. Ian is also the former Artistic Director of the Tony Award-winning theater The Acting Company, where he was monitored by and worked with Margot Harley.
Betti Steel
Class Manager