How to get the audience to you - out - standing director Fernando J. Scarpa to hold an acting workshop

Outstanding Italian director Fernando J. Scarpa has a new project: an Acting Workshop for both professional actors and those with only a basic experience.
Fernando J. Scarpa is internationally renowned, and has worked in numerous plays, movies and TV productions throughout Europe and the U.S. His knowledge of different audiences and different acting techniques is extensive.

He successfully directed a great number of actors, dancers, and performers in several countries. It’s all about pleasing the audience and Fernando knows how to get you there. He successfully teaches courses at UCLA Extension and produces and directs works in theater, movies and TV. His latest production, “The Italian Journey”, was a great success and well-liked by both the American and international audience.

This ten-week workshop will help participants expand their acting skills and, very importantly, will teach them how to win the American and international audience in movies, theater and TV. The course will conclude with a final show performed in front of a live audience. While most acting classes/ workshops focus on how to impress a casting director or a director in order to book you for your next acting job, this course will also explore the ways in which the audience responds, and when it does, you know you are reaching them!

The workshop will cover the entire process: from audition reading to the first rehearsal to leading on stage to the final opening.
It’s not all about acting but it all ends up with acting. At the end of this journey, you will be ready for the final show! It will be performed in the beautiful theater at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles on March 21st. The show will be open to friends and relatives of the cast, and will be based on Italian characters in movies, theater and arts. You will get to know Italian culture while having fun interpreting your Italian “alter-ago”. Who are you going to be? Fernando would be glad to meet anybody interested during the Open House at the Italian Cultural Institute on Thursday, December 15th, from 2pm to 5pm. A perfect occasion to meet the director and ask him any questions you might have!

For more information, please contact Lingua Viva at classes.iicla@esteri.it or (310) 824-7408

Alessandra Mastroianni
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