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Artist Afternoon: Poetry as Scene Study: Exercising Our Acting Chops

Although not an acting class in the traditional sense, reading poetry for an audience can utilize many similar techniques that an actor needs in good scene and monologue work. Alongside a reader’s own authenticity, finding the scene and the reason are important considerations when delivering a poet's message or reflection.

In this two-hour session, instructor and EAG Council Member Gary Sloan will help you to explore the diction and the delivery, the character and the scene, the story, and the many different ways of reciting a poem. Unearth the art of oral interpretation.

Bring one or two poems; simple or epic, a sonnet, or a favorite short story and we’ll rehearse it with you.  

 

About Gary Sloan

Gary Sloan has been a professional actor for forty years and has performed in New York, Los Angeles and throughout the United States in the venues of regional theatre and Off-Broadway. 

Off-Broadway in New York two seasons at- CSC Repertory and at the Roundabout Theatre Co. King Lear with Hal Holbrook.

Regional credits include leading roles at:  Arena Stage; Shakespeare Theatre Co.; Long Wharf Theatre; Berkshire Theatre Co.; Great Lakes Shakespeare Co.; Huntington Stage; Actor’s Theatre of Louisville; Alley Theatre; Indiana Repertory; Cincinnati Playhouse; Virginia Stage Co.; Oregon Shakespeare Festival; NJ Shakespeare Festival; Dallas Shakespeare; Folger Shakespeare and touring with John Houseman’s The Acting Company.

30 Shakespearean productions alongside contemporary credits ranging from Arthur Miller to David Mamet, Shaw to Pinter, Tennessee Williams to Keith Glover, Lillian Hellman to Jacquelyn Reingold and Bertolt Brecht to Ken Ludwig.

He has appeared on stage with: Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Spinella, Kathleen Chalfant, Stacy Keach, Peter Gallagher, Pat Carroll, Mary Beth Hurt, J.T. Walsh, Fritz Weaver, Lynn Redgrave, Michael Learned, Tom Hulce, Robert Prosky, Dennis Boutsikaris, Rosemary Prinz, Tony Todd, Lea Michele, Hal Holbrook, Marsha Mason and Senator Fred Thompson.  

He has also performed internationally at the English Theatre in Vienna, Austria and at the Prague Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Terezin CZ. and opened the British Shakespeare Conference in Belfast NI 2018 with his solo performance, Haunted Prince, A Requiem for Edwin Booth.

Recently, Mr. Sloan was Professor and head of MFA Acting at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and has authored a book entitled, IN REHEARSAL, which has been released by Routledge Publishing, December, 2011.

www.garysloan.net

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