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Safety Coordinators

Room Reservations

Our wonderful new graduate office assistant is Hogan Holt!!! As part of his duties, Hogan will be handling room requests, woot! This includes using theatre spaces for SALT rehearsals, student org events, etc, etc.

Please email holtht@vcu.edu for any requests.
ALL REQUESTS SHOULD BE MADE BY THURSDAY @ 1:00PM FOR THE FOLLOWING WEEK. Room schedules will be printed and posted by classroom doors every Monday. Last minute room reservations can be made by handwriting your name and the time block in a free space on the printed schedule.

Of course, all VCU safety protocols need to be followed at all times in our spaces.

COVID Reporting Protocols

We wanted to take a moment to remind everyone about the proper protocols for reporting – When in doubt, call the COVID line!! If you are ever considering staying out of class due to anything COVID related, again, please call the line!

You can find more information on the One Together Site (the text below is copied directly from the site)

Reporting symptoms, positive test results or exposure:Students must report the following to VCU Student Health Services by calling 1-804-MYCOVID or 1-804-692-6843:

Symptoms associated with COVID-19
Positive test results for COVID-19
Exposure to COVID-19, including the need to isolate or quarantine

Student Health Services will provide additional instructions regarding testing, isolation and/or quarantine. Symptoms will be monitored and the student should refer to a medical provider if symptoms worsen.

Vocal Lessons Students – you can use Music department practice rooms!

Are you a voice lesson students looking for practice space? You can use practice rooms managed by the department of music.

Fill out this google form in order to get card access Singleton, James Black Music Center, and practice rooms: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScFv1bX-JCN-QC03TOT3TgGnosCiL0pkBs9CMOka8qjudljzg/viewform

(under course of study, they can select “other” and put “applied lessons”)

Then fill this out to actually reserve a timeslot in a room:

https://apps.library.vcu.edu/reserve/music#!/

The practice rooms in Singleton are located on the second floor down the corridor located on the northwest corner of the building. (so the side of the building opposite the theatre office.)

There are also rooms in the James Black Music Center, which is the old church right across the street from Singleton (straight across the little triangle park). The room numbers correspond to the floors, like Singleton. (anything 100 should be first floor, 200 second floor, etc.)

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Artsearch Job Listing (Accounts now FREE!)

Looking for High School Contact Info!

Have a quick five minutes? Please consider filling out this quick form! https://forms.gle/1JKFcx1k9Fye85EC9
The department is trying to develop more meaningful relationships with high schools, and we would love to hear from our current students! Did you have an amazing HS drama/theatre teacher? Let us know!
A BIG THANK YOU to the students who have filled this out–I APPRECIATE YOU <3 <3 <3

SETC Screening Auditions

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Monologue Resources from Karen Kohlhaas

Monologue Resources from Karen Kohlhaas!
Thanks to Karen Kopryanski for attending the workshop and sharing 🙂

NewDramatists.org – read about their member playwrights; these are excellent writers; find those you resonate with, and go to their websites. Often there is a link to buy their produced plays online; some have had productions on Audible that you can download and listen to.

NewPlayExchange.org – $12/year. Huge archive of current plays and writers. Searchable by age appropriateness, genre, playwright demographics. You can review the plays and you can download many of them. If you spend some regular time finding writers who write good parts for you, you’ll have a collection of great material that no one else has.

Scribd.com – 30 day free trial then $10/month. Ebooks of many many plays, and also you can get pdf scripts. Search by playwright, search by title.

Here is a great collection of additional places to read plays for free online:

https://www.todaytix.com/insider/nyc/posts/where-to-read-plays-for-free-online?utm_source=email

You can also download free excerpts at Samuel French/ConcordTheatricals and Dramatists Play Service, and read the script for free at Playscripts.

NON PLAY RESOURCES: I recommend doing good TV scripts (not famous roles), movies (not famous roles), comedy essays, follow great writers on social media, interviews with fascinating/articulate people; wild cards: Amazon reviews, Best of Craigslist. Make sure you actually have a good monologue there – check for strong beginning/middle/end/climax; don’t get seduced by novelty alone :)”

KAREN KOHLHAAS is an Atlantic Theater Company founding ensemble member, stage director, and senior teacher with over 30 years in the classroom. She is the author of THE MONOLOGUE AUDITION: A Practical Guide for Actors, recommended by Dame Helen Mirren in her Master Class on Acting; and How to Choose a Monologue for Any Audition (now on sale at www.art-and-audition.com). She was voted Best NYC Monologue Teacher and Best NYC Cold Reading Teacher by Backstage readers. She teaches monologues, cold reading, and advanced scene study.

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