ACTING AND THE CAMERA: THE ART OF THE CLOSE-UP with MARILYN MCINTYRE
Live and online from Los Angeles
Powerful and memorable screen acting happens in the close-up. The camera sees into your soul therefore the audience does, too. It sees everything and demands the truth. It takes courage to face the challenge of the close-up, but the close-up is where the actor earns their money.
A key element that must never be forgotten is that great acting starts with “being”. Being fully present and living authentically in your own life will allow you to make the “actor’s leap” into the given circumstances of the script and live authentically in that fictional world.
In this class participants will:
– Regularly submit self-tape exercises and perform reworks in class
– Tackle emotionally charged scenes & learn how to connect to (and personalise) the material
– Learn how to access their emotions, empathy & vulnerability on-camera & in close-up
– Learn how to remove the fear of acting in close-up
CONTACT HOURS AND DATES
Thursdays, 8-29 October (10am-1:30pm)*
*All class times are listed in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST).
CLASS FEE
$355 to participate
WHAT TO PREPARE
TBA
CLASS TUTOR
As a member of the Howard Fine Acting Studio faculty, Marilyn McIntyre specialises in teaching Scene Study, On-Camera and Personalisation. Marilyn developed the Personalisation program at Howard Fine’s request, as a way of helping actors harness their personal experiences to bring their most authentic selves to their work.
Marilyn studied at HB Studio in New York, with Michael Shurtleff and was also a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Actors Workshop. In Los Angeles, Marilyn had the privilege of studying with Uta Hagen, and is featured on Uta Hagen’s ‘Acting Class’ DVD, performing Hagen’s tenth object exercise: Historical Imagination, in which she plays Charlotta from the Cherry Orchard. She has also trained with esteemed director Anna Bogart and leading members of the SITI Company, as well as holding a Master of Fine Arts (Penn State University) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (University of North Carolina School of the Arts).
Marilyn is a multi-award-winning actor, whose credits include leading roles on and off Broadway as well as in Los Angeles, where she garnered multiple Ovation, LA Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly and BackStage Garland awards, and several nominations for her work with companies such as Rogue Machine Theatre, VS. Theatre Company, Matrix, Open Fist, Deaf West and Interact among others. Most recently she made her fourth appearance in Rogue Machine’s ‘Around-the-Clock’ play festival. Her film and television credits include ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘Cold Case’, ‘Watch Over Me’ (series regular), ‘Judging Amy’, ‘LA Law’ ‘X-Files’, ‘Shuffle’, ‘Heaven’s Rain’, ‘On Holiday’, ‘The Ring Two’, the hit short ‘George Lucas in Love’ and many more. Most recently she worked opposite Brenda Vaccaro in the independent feature ‘30-Love’.
In addition to the Howard Fine Acting Studio, Marilyn also teaches at the Los Angeles SAG-AFTRA Conservatory at AFI, and is the coordinator of the acting program for Elon in LA: ‘Climbing the LAdder’ at Elon University. She has taught at California State University-Northridge (CSUN), the Old Globe/University of San Diego MFA Program, University of Southern California, University of Texas-Austin and Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, among others.