Above: Jean Georgakopoulos and Diana Nugent
All events take place at Hillside Performing Arts Studio (PAS)
(Las Trampas), unless otherwise noted
(Las Trampas), unless otherwise noted
To enroll in classes, unless otherwise noted:
Place check payable to DAOR in DAOR mailbox in Gateway.
Include your name, phone/email, and class title.
Please mark envelope with class title.
Place check payable to DAOR in DAOR mailbox in Gateway.
Include your name, phone/email, and class title.
Please mark envelope with class title.
CLASSES etc.
Acting Our Lives: Performance Memoir
Instructor: Bobbi Ausubel
Begins Monday, January 17 on Zoom
2-4 pm
Cost: $80
To register and for Zoom link,
contact Bobbi Ausubel:
650-743-4212
bobbi.gloria.ausubel@gmail.com
Participants do not need drama or writing experience. Newcomers are always welcome to join with fresh ideas and will find support. Rossmoorians rich lives have been long and varied, therefore forgotten and remembered events pop up in opening weeks’ exercises as we share life memories with each other. Participants then write a story from life experience. Ideas and stories are shared with the group. then edited to become dramatic monologues or scenes. One gets support to learn to re-write for drama rather than literature. Finally, participants get coaching to act their scenes, including one private session with the teacher/director.
An optional performance will be presented at a well-attended showcase, when allowed, and is usually recorded for Chanel 28.
The class is taught by the experienced acting coach, Bobbi Ausubel, who has had many years’ experience in theater as a director and playwright.
Come have fun!
An optional performance will be presented at a well-attended showcase, when allowed, and is usually recorded for Chanel 28.
The class is taught by the experienced acting coach, Bobbi Ausubel, who has had many years’ experience in theater as a director and playwright.
Come have fun!
Play-Reading Group
Third Monday each month, 10 am
Cancelled until February 21
Garden & Eisenhower Rooms, Dollar Clubhouse
Facilitator: Tancred Agius
No fee
The Play Reading group welcomes actors and non-actors. If interested, just show up at a meeting. The atmosphere is relaxed and fun. A new play for the group is offered. Those present at meetings are each given a character at the beginning of the gathering and the newly chosen play is read aloud. Enjoyable discussions follow.
The group will read a variety of plays, some comedies, new and contemporary plays, and older plays. Members will have an opportunity to choose a play.
For further information contact Irene Krohn, wjkik@aol.com
Third Monday each month, 10 am
Cancelled until February 21
Garden & Eisenhower Rooms, Dollar Clubhouse
Facilitator: Tancred Agius
No fee
The Play Reading group welcomes actors and non-actors. If interested, just show up at a meeting. The atmosphere is relaxed and fun. A new play for the group is offered. Those present at meetings are each given a character at the beginning of the gathering and the newly chosen play is read aloud. Enjoyable discussions follow.
The group will read a variety of plays, some comedies, new and contemporary plays, and older plays. Members will have an opportunity to choose a play.
For further information contact Irene Krohn, wjkik@aol.com
Behind-the-Masks Playwrights Lab
Come and explore how a group dynamic might benefit you individually.
Every other Wednesday starting February 2
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. in Gateway MPR #1
Facilitator: Edna Coulson Hall
Where are Thalia and Melpomene when you need them?
(Thalia / comedy and Melpomene / tragedy)
You call; no one picks up. You search hither and thither; there’s no one in sight. You wail; your cries bounce back to you in mocking echoes. What to do? Will the blank page, the empty computer screen, never be filled? Is it possible to write something worth staging when your muse is a no show?
YES! And we can do it together.
DAOR’s Playwrights Coordinator is offering formation of an ongoing, bi-monthly playwrights’ group for those who:
Behind-the-Masks Playwrights Lab
Come and explore how a group dynamic might benefit you individually.
Every other Wednesday starting February 2
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. in Gateway MPR #1
Facilitator: Edna Coulson Hall
Where are Thalia and Melpomene when you need them?
(Thalia / comedy and Melpomene / tragedy)
You call; no one picks up. You search hither and thither; there’s no one in sight. You wail; your cries bounce back to you in mocking echoes. What to do? Will the blank page, the empty computer screen, never be filled? Is it possible to write something worth staging when your muse is a no show?
YES! And we can do it together.
DAOR’s Playwrights Coordinator is offering formation of an ongoing, bi-monthly playwrights’ group for those who:
- have never written a play but really want to
- want to shake a sleeper script awake with a fresh approach
- want to finish up that umpteenth draft and call their script submission-ready
- want to simply work on their craft
Behind-the-Masks Playwrights Lab
New Twist on Performing Comedy
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Instructor: Jean Wilcox
Where: Performing Arts Studio
Cost: $45, plus $7 materials fee
To register, call Jean (925-937-6524)
or email: jeanmary3@comcast.net
At the first session, each student will be assigned a partner and a comedy scene. The paired students will then study and rehearse the scene in depth for the remainder of the course. Commitment to minimum homework will yield optimum results but no memorization will be required.
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Instructor: Jean Wilcox
Where: Performing Arts Studio
Cost: $45, plus $7 materials fee
To register, call Jean (925-937-6524)
or email: jeanmary3@comcast.net
At the first session, each student will be assigned a partner and a comedy scene. The paired students will then study and rehearse the scene in depth for the remainder of the course. Commitment to minimum homework will yield optimum results but no memorization will be required.
Theater History - A Play Reading Group
Ongoing
Instructor: Don Kaplan
Thursdays, 1:30 - 3:30
Cost: Free on Zoom
For more information, contact:
Don Kaplan, 287-8252, dsk8252@gmail.com
Plays are read and discussed with material furnished by instructor.
Please note there is limited enrollment for this class.
Ongoing
Instructor: Don Kaplan
Thursdays, 1:30 - 3:30
Cost: Free on Zoom
For more information, contact:
Don Kaplan, 287-8252, dsk8252@gmail.com
Plays are read and discussed with material furnished by instructor.
Please note there is limited enrollment for this class.
Shakespeare: Power and Politics in "As You Like It"
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This class will meet in person, (please be vaccinated)
8 Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Fee: $50 plus $7 copying fees
All levels welcome. Here is how instructor Erin Merritt, founding member of Woman’s Will, an all-female Theater Collective, describes her class:
“What shall I call thee when thou art a man?” Performing Gender in Shakespeare’s Plays.
Explore Shakespeare’s take on gender roles in his master comedy, "As You Like It."
Through games, text-work, monologues and scene work, we will delve deeply into the myriad ways Shakespeare highlighted and subverted his era’s gender roles, examining how all-male casts playing gendered characters affected what he wrote, and how their interpretations play out in modern performance. Class assignments will be tailored to individual students, so all experience levels are welcome.
Don’t miss this rare and wonderful opportunity to participate in the study of one of the greatest writers of all time, with Shakespearean scholar, Erin Merritt, beloved by her former students.
Please send check, payable to DAOR, to:
Roanne Butier, 2516 Ptarmigan #2, Walnut Creek, CA 94595
You may pay at first class meeting.
Questions? email Cynthia Wilson, Academy Coordinator:
N2zazm52@yahoo.com
or phone, 925-949-8498.
Session Ended
This class will meet in person, (please be vaccinated)
8 Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Fee: $50 plus $7 copying fees
All levels welcome. Here is how instructor Erin Merritt, founding member of Woman’s Will, an all-female Theater Collective, describes her class:
“What shall I call thee when thou art a man?” Performing Gender in Shakespeare’s Plays.
Explore Shakespeare’s take on gender roles in his master comedy, "As You Like It."
Through games, text-work, monologues and scene work, we will delve deeply into the myriad ways Shakespeare highlighted and subverted his era’s gender roles, examining how all-male casts playing gendered characters affected what he wrote, and how their interpretations play out in modern performance. Class assignments will be tailored to individual students, so all experience levels are welcome.
Don’t miss this rare and wonderful opportunity to participate in the study of one of the greatest writers of all time, with Shakespearean scholar, Erin Merritt, beloved by her former students.
Please send check, payable to DAOR, to:
Roanne Butier, 2516 Ptarmigan #2, Walnut Creek, CA 94595
You may pay at first class meeting.
Questions? email Cynthia Wilson, Academy Coordinator:
N2zazm52@yahoo.com
or phone, 925-949-8498.
“The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious”
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