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Andy H.

Private tutor in San Francisco, CA

Education

Workshops: Theater of the Oppressed, SF with members of Bolivian theatre artist and philosopher Augusto Boal’s staff IB Theatre Arts training, San Francisco & Tyson's Corner, VA. Teaching techniques, assessment rubric and curriculum development for International Baccalaureate Theater Arts students. Single Subject Credential: English/Drama K-12, San Francisco State University San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Russell Blackwood & Barbie Stein: Monologues and scene study Standard Institute for Musical Theatre, SF, with Daniel Levenstein: Audition coaching Jean Shelton Actors Lab, SF, with Jean Shelton Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven, CT with Judith Sloan: Physical Theater Process Studio, New York, with Caroline Aaron: Musical Theater Audition San Francisco State University, BA, Interdisciplinary Creative Arts. University of California, Los Angeles Film, Theatre, Political Science studies

Experience

First job, age 9: Singing in "Heart of Darkness", Playhouse 90 on CBS, starring Boris Karloff, Roddy McDowell, Eartha Kitt and Inge Swenson. Second job, high school: Member, Junior Speakers Bureau, Coast Federal S&L, Los Angeles. Topic: "Rock 'n Roll and the American Way" Teaching Accomplishments: Created on-going drama programs and performance series at two large urban high schools, Oakland Technical and Redwood City's Sequoia High Schools. Trained dozens of students known to have been accepted to focused post-secondary theater and film programs, including AMDA - New York and Los Angeles, Southern Oregon University, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Chicago, NYU, San Diego and San Francisco State Universities, and the University of North Carolina. Some of these, and others, are working professionally in stage, film and television. Guided twelve of twelve International Baccalaureate Theater Arts students to achieving their desired IB certificate or diploma. Coached acting students who were awarded Gold Medals at Hayward State’s Shakespeare Festival and Competition and the Ohlone College High School Arts Competition. Worked with teachers on subject area teaching using drama techniques in English, history and Special Education classes. Recent and On-going Professional Directing and Coaching Accomplishments: Taught and directed current professional performers including: Rockmond Dunbar (TV's The Mentalist, Prison Break, Souls Food), Anita Woodley (International Performer: Mama Juggs, The Men in Me), Armond Dorsey (Vallejo Shakespeare Festival, UCSC's Rainbow Theater), Genevieve Lee (TV's Grace and Sumitra, Two-Buck Chuck) Coached actors in Jehnovah Carlisle’s film, A Call to Grace, to demonstrate directing techniques for his Master class. Audition Coach, drama and musicals, for young performers applying for scholarships, professional theatre and film schools, plays and clubs in San Mateo County. I've also coached and directed 70+ plays and musicals in the Bay Area and on the East Coast. Stage Director 2001 - * Arlecchino’s Last Prank/Goodbye Cupid * Baby Christina/The Buck-Naked Church of Truth @ Left Coast Theater Company, S.F. * Bernie Madoff in Hell @ San Francisco Theatre Festival, S.F. * And Then There Were None @ Pacifica Spindrift Players, Pacifica * Twelve Angry Jurors @ Calvary Theater Group, S.F. * The Woman Who Flummoxed the Fairies Storytime Festival, Palace of Fine Arts, S.F. * Oliver! @ Spindrift School of Performing Arts, Pacifica * Go Kibbutz! @ S.F. Fringe Festival, Phoenix Theatre, S.F. * Giving Voice @ Summer Youth Arts, St. Paulus Church, S.F. * Forty Cents A Minute, Gerry’s Law, Rosabelle-answer-tell for 3 Bay Area One-Acts Festivals, Eureka Theatre, S.F. * Raggedy Ann and Andy @ Performing Artists Group, City College, S.F. * No Entrance @ CA Travel Troupe, Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland * Once On This Island, Oliver! Educational Theatre Company, San Mateo * The Heidi Chronicles, Ten Little Indians, Nourish The Beast @ New Fillmore Theatre Company, S.F. * Play It Again, Sam! @ New Foundling Players, West Haven, CT Staged Readings *I Can’t Remember by Maureen Studer @ Ross Valley Players RAW New Play Series, Ross, CA *Fingers by Jon Brooks @ Playwrights Center of San Francisco *Main Entry by Beth Soloway @ Playwrights Center of San Francisco Stage Director and Drama Teacher Sequoia High School, Redwood City: The Outsiders, Custodians of Love, The Wonderful Adventures of Don Quixote, Working, Nothing But The Truth, 1984, Once On This Island, Twelve Angry Women, Leader of the Pack Oakland Technical High School, Oakland: Zooman and the Sign, Guys and Dolls, The Curious Savage, The Sting, Play On!, The Crucible, Promises, Promises, Harvey, Up the Down Staircase, Purlie, Langston Artist-in-Residencies: Teaching performance skills and directing school productions for: Del Mar Middle School, Tiburon, CA * The Early Works of Monty Python: AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT Ortega Elementary School, Pacifica, CA * STORY THEATRE San Francisco Elementary School, SF * PEEP, PEEP! * Cabrillo School, Pacifica, CA – Theatre games and performance training.

Availability

Weekdays after 11AM, Weekends after 11AM

Can Meet

Up to 30 minutes away at my regular hourly rate

Hobbies

I read a lot of non-fiction history, especially about the dynamics of civilization and the evolution of the dramatic arts - and science fictionI I play guitar and sing wherever I can. Over the years I've become proficient in performance and teaching: Acting Directing Script Analysis Play Writing Reflection Characterization Improvisation Storytelling Technical Theater Public Speaking Genre/Musical Theater Voice and Dialects Audition/Rehearsal Techniques Pantomime/Clown/Movement Masks and Puppets Individual/Group sessions

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