Dennis - Acting tutor - Dover
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Dennis - Acting tutor - Dover

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Dennis

  • Rate $142
  • Response 2h
  • Students

    Number of students Dennis has accompanied since arriving at Superprof

    20

    Number of students Dennis has accompanied since arriving at Superprof

Dennis - Acting tutor - Dover
  • 5 (15 reviews)

$142/hr

1st lesson free

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  • Acting
  • Improvisational theatre
  • Musical theatre
  • Playwriting

Professional director, producer, actor, voice artist, improv expert, screenwriter, playwright, choreographer with 50+ years of experience, teaches Acting, Voice Acting, Improvisation, Film Acting.

  • Acting
  • Improvisational theatre
  • Musical theatre
  • Playwriting

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Recommended

Dennis is a respected tutor in our community. He is highly recommended for his commitment and the quality of his lessons. An excellent choice to progress with confidence.

About Dennis

A professional director, producer, actor, writer, and musician, Mr. Johnson has headed entertainment production companies as executive director and artistic director. A member of SAG/AFTRA and BMI, he has directed, acted, and served as dance and fight choreographer for plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Webster, and Feydeau as well as many original and contemporary plays and musicals, including The Duchess of Malfi, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rags to Riches, The Wedding, Romeo and Juliet, Two Slatterns and a King, The Dragon, Guys and Dolls, Mr. Toad Rides Again, The Doctor and the Devils, U.S.A., You Can’t Take It With You, Love and Soft Music, HMS Pinafore, The Pied Piper, The Elephant Man, The Bluebeard, and Three In a Bath. Mr. Johnson studied dance with Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Carlton Johnson, Paul Draper, William Bales and Ruth Beckford. He studied judo with Professor William Montero Sr., and Senshin Budo karate with Jeremiah Tobin. He has directed, taught, or performed for the Old Globe Theatre, the Folger Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, the USO, California Actors Theatre, Mt. Hope Estate, William Shakespeare Road Company, LA County Parks, Junior League, Sterling Renaissance Festival, Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, JP Nightingale, Hollywood Bowl, Franklin Institute, McCabes Guitar Shop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Knott’s Berry Farm, Frontier Village, Yosemite National Park, and for a decade produced exclusive interactive entertainment for Hersheypark and Christmas Candy Lane. Mr. Johnson has created unique, interactive improvisation performances for many fine resorts and companies including Skytop Lodge, Hotel Hershey, Sagamore, Wheatland, Ahwahnee Hotel, Webster Bank, Morgan Stanley, Merck, Saks Fifth Avenue, Massanutten, Longwood Gardens, Coolfont, Canaan Valley, Wintergreen Resort, Black Point Inn, American House Hotel, York Harbor Inn, Belle Grove Mansion, Wayside Inn, Buck Hotel, Bryce Mountain, Park City Center, Timberline Lodge, and SMG. A songwriter at BMI, his tunes have been recorded by Joe Walsh, Melba Moore, Gene McDaniels, Merry Clayton, Nancy Wilson, and the Floaters. A produced playwright, published poet, and prolific screenwriter, Mr. Johnson has written, produced and directed dozens of film, video, and audio projects, and has performed as voice and on-camera talent for national and regional companies including the Boston Red Sox, NFL Films, League of Legends (original Gangplank, Taric, Heimerdinger), NESN, Fleer, Cox Broadcasting, Crayola, Black & Decker, Harley Davidson, Mercedes, Kelly Tire, AAA, LL Bean, Goodwill, Farmers Trust, Lockheed, Hershey, and Prevention Magazine. He directed and co-wrote The Perfect Woman, which was a nominee for NH Film of the Year in 2014. He co-created and has presented TACT interpersonal communication workshops for persons in law enforcement, medicine, hospitality, sales, recreation, education, and for corporate executives. He has narrated and provided character voices for acclaimed documentary films including Shadows Fall North, The People’s Forest, Front Wards Back Wards, and Celia Thaxter’s Island Garden, which he also edited. Mr. Johnson has directed over a thousand acclaimed educational performances, improvisations, and workshops for elementary schools, secondary schools, and universities in VA, CA, PA, NJ, NY, MD, CT, ME, NH, including James Madison University, San Jose State University, Shenandoah University, Millersville University, and SUNY. He continues to teach improvisation, on-camera, voice and stage acting, coach public speakers, conduct performance workshops, and develop entertainments. His most cherished accomplishment is having raised four children as a single father.

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About the lesson

  • All Levels
  • English

All languages in which the lesson is available :

English

I plan your lessons based on your experience, skill, knowledge, technique, and goals.

For instance, my work with you on depending on your level of experience and the audition situation, can be broad or intensive, and can include any or all of the following:

Pre-audition Preparation - How to prepare to make an impact; getting the best from your headshots and resume; choosing your audition piece (if applicable); specifying what you want to achieve; how to rehearse your audition; cultivating the proper attitude; handling nervousness and stage fright; developing consistency; familiarizing yourself with the director and/or casting director; how to use info about the producing company and their products; the importance of what you do the night before the audition.

Presentation - Arriving at the audition; how to conduct yourself; entering and exiting an audition space; reading the room; how to relate to the auditioners; what to say and not to say; what to wear; what to bring; your interaction with other auditionees.

Post audition - Critical analysis; self-assessment; objectivity vs. subjectivity; digesting the experience as a whole, and any feedback; making corrections; emotional distancing; anticipating and preparing for callbacks; moving on.

Effective use and synthesis of the 4 actor tools - Voice, Body, Face, and Mind.

Improv Acting - We'll cover the elements of successful improvisation. We'll use exercises and games to develop your expression, imagination, spontaneity, creativity, solo work, and work with an ensemble. We'll create scenes, characters, and scenarios, and develop them into performance pieces. We'll explore improv as actor training, rehearsal technique, scene study, character development, and professional entertainment, including interactive theatre, immersive theatre, historical improvised theatre. We'll see how to use improvisation in film, television, and onstage. We'll study verbal improvisation, physical improvisation, improvised pantomime, and the improvised use of props.

Script Analysis - Keywords; meaning; beats; character intent; meter; pronunciation; emphasis; author intent; exploring the entire work that includes your script.

Character - How to analyze your character; identifying objectives; playing objectives; the only three things we know about a character; choosing a style; choosing a voice; the suitability of choosing costume pieces and props; how your character moves overall; how your character walks; what emotions does your character exhibit; how to use animal characters; working from outside in vs from inside out.

Face Acting - Understanding your face; constructive use of the degrees and elements of the 7 universal emotional facial expressions; what your neutral face says to others; different applications for auditions for live gigs, on camera gigs, mic-only gigs, comedy, drama, multi-character auditions, and monologues.

Gesture - The wide variety of uses of your fingers, hands, arms, torso, head; identifying opportunities for gesture; creating a gesture; choreographing a gesture; the timing of gesture; co-ordination of gesture and dialogue; use and avoidance of gesture repetition; applying artistic discretion to gesture.

Voice - Pitch; loudness; speed; rhythm; tone; prosody; variables and variations; character elements; use of dramatic and comedic pauses; emotion; enunciation; emphasis; pace; intervals; nasal continuents; u-glide; musicality; and more.

The Art of Telling the Story - The specific aspects of "tell the story," which any performance or audition should do.

The Art of Physicalization - How to physicalize your audition, take it beyond the multifarious elements of physicality, and make it come to life.

The Art of Realization - Shepherding your audition from the ideal to the practical, from the alpha to the omega.

And much more!

Every session of mine is tailored-made for each participant, so I'll know much better how to proceed specifically for you once I know a bit about you and we have had the opportunity to meet and work together.

I look forward to hearing from you, and helping you!

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Rates

Rate

  • $142

Pack prices

  • 5h: $670
  • 10h: $1257

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  • $142/h

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The first lesson with Dennis will allow you to get to know each other and discuss your needs for future lessons.

  • 30mins

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