Resources and links for students (from department announcements)

Safety Coordinators are designated as our go-to contacts for cleaning supplies and other safety issues. Please contact Kevin McGranahan for issues regarding Shafer kmcgranahan@vcu.edu and Kendra Rai for issues regarding the Singleton Performing Arts Center klrai@vcu.edu

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.

We just found out that access to the job listings on Artsearch is now free for all users! You have to create an account, but no codes or coupons needed.  Link here.

VCU has received Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds II (HEERF II). Student grants are available for financial assistance related to the coronavirus pandemic. Grants are being considered for expenses like tuition, housing, utilities, groceries, child care, and more.
Read more and start the process here.

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.