Directors workshop in Dublin

got this in an email this morning from Fás Screen Training:

Staging for Directors (starting 05/03/2008)

Tutors:
•Mark Travis
Mark Travis- Mark’s television directing credits include The Facts of Life, Family Ties, Capitol and the Emmy Award-winning PBS dramatic special, Blind Tom: The Thomas Bethune Story. In 1990 he completed his first film, Going Under, for Warner Bros., starring Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty. In 1992 Mark opened a consulting and development company for directors, writers and producers. In 1999 he directed the documentary, Earlet and in 2001 he wrote and directed The Baritones (a parody of The Sopranos).
Mark Travis has been represented as a director for many years on the Los Angeles and off-Broadway stages by such critically acclaimed productions as A Bronx Tale, Undressing New Jersey, Faithful, Once A Man Twice A Boy, Time Flies When You’re Alive, Cafe 50’s, No Place Like Home, Equus, Wings and The Coming of Stork.
A graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a former creative consultant to film director Mark Rydell, his highly praised work on A Bronx Tale, Survival of the Heart, Undressing New Jersey, Once A Man Twice A Boy, Wings, The Coming of Stork, Equus, the improvisational Linke vs. Redfield, and Verdigris have garnered a total of twenty-eight Drama-Logue, L.A. Weekly and Drama Critics’ Circle awards.

Date: 05/03/2008
Duration: 3 Days
Venue: Dublin
Cost: €225.00

Application Procedure:
Applicants for this course should apply online to http://www.screentrainingireland.ie
If you have any queries please contact Grainne Bennett on 01 4830840

The deadline for course application is the 8th of February 2008.

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Participant Profile:
This seminar is aimed at drama directors.

Course Profile:
Staging communicates subtext to the audience and proper staging can stimulate an emotional truth within the actor.

In the three-day Staging Workshop, ten directors will work with scripted material and professional actors in a process of exploration of the multi-faceted tool of staging. Day one is exploring the two-character scene. Day Two explores the three-character scene. And Day Three the four-character scene. Also incorporated into the process is the concept and practice of staging for the camera.

Topics that are covered in The Staging Workshop:
The Three areas of concern in Staging
Other Characters
The Environment
The Self
The affect on the Audience
The internal affect on the character
Hi Speed Directing
The Circle of Action
Staging for the Camera