Available for your university, college, or performing arts center

Receive intensive training in a broad spectrum of acting tools, including techniques in: relaxation, concentration, sense memory, affective memory, improvisation.

Learn to motivate and justify behavior; create a life for a character; develop a character's inner actions, and more.

Participants may prepare a memorized scene or monologue and perform it for critique.

WILLIAM SMITHERS

• Stage, film and television actor. Received Theatre World Award for performance as Tybalt in ROMEO AND JULIET on Broadway; Obie Award for performance as Treplev in Chekhov's THE SEA GULL off-Broadway.

• Feature films include ATTACK! (Lt. Harold Woodruff); PAPILLON (Commander Barrot) and SCORPIO (Mitchell).

• A member of the Actor's Studio since 1952.

• Has appeared or guest-starred in nearly 400 television programs -- perhaps best known for his role as Jeremy Wendell in the popular TV series DALLAS.

• Director and co-author of the instructional videotape THE METHOD, featuring Lorrie Hull and students, with introductions by Smithers, Martin Landau and Shelley Winters.

 LORRIE HULL SMITHERS, Ph.D.

• Author of the best-seller STRASBERG'S METHOD: AS TAUGHT BY LORRIE HULL ("Indispensable": Theatrgroup).

• Master teacher at the International Stanislavski Conference in Paris.

• For 12 years, instructor for Lee Strasberg. For 5 years, instructor for American Film Institute programs.

• Featured in the instructional videotape THE METHOD ("...real, vibrant and absolutely absorbing. ...highly recommended." - Stage Directions magazine, June/July 1999.

• "...an invaluable teaching tool for actors, directors, and teachers..." - Theatrgroup.)

* Acting coach to the "stars."

THE CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

"Dear Bill and Lorrie,

It was great to have you here! ...the workshop was a wonderful educational opportunity for both the participants and the observers. I'm enclosing copies of the evaluations we received;  you can see that the students really appreciated the experience. .....

Sincerely,

Janet Brown
Education Director"

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

"From 1983-88 I was the Theatre Education Coordinator for the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans. ...When the opportunity permitted, visiting artists .... offered professional seminars and workshops as a special educational event.   In 1986, Strasberg-trained Lorrie Hull conducted the first in a series of weekend Strasberg Method workshops. Her work with our conservatory students and other professionals in the acting community created such an interest in the Strasberg Method that four classes involving 45 students resulted.

In return engagements, Lorrie was joined by Actor's Studio member and actor William Smithers, who extended the training to include insightful scene critiques that challenged and developed the actor. His commanding teaching/directing style provided the perfect balance for Lorrie's masterful demonstration of Strasberg training exercises.

Fourteen years later local actors, both professional and community, continue to recognize the Hull and Smithers' workshops as a defining experience in their training as actors. I would encourage any serious
training center to offer a similar educational experience in their community. ...

Linda Gregoric Cook, RDT/BCT
Master Teacher/Theatre Coordinator
New Orleans Public Schools"