Hi Everyone:
Performers’ Workshop creator Joshua Finkel here. Here is some wonderful candid footage from the recent historic evening at the ANMT Performers’ Workshop, where for the first time all THREE levels of the workshop performed under the same roof to ANMT writers, Industry members, family and friends. The Fall Showcase and Potluck for the Performers’ Workshop–The Chow and Bow Broadway Buffet held on Wednesday November 12 was a smash! Members from Adult Level 1, Adult Advanced Level 2 and the new PW Teen level strutted their stuff to a packed house. Listen to the wonderful words and feelings of both performers and audience alike. Full evening’s show video is forthcoming! Don’t miss the NEXT showcase of the Performers’ Workshop at the M Bar in Hollywood on Wednesday February 25 at 8 p.m. where members of the Cabaret and Specialty Material Class will perform the 8 minute cabaret set they create themselves over the winter session! Further info: http://www.anmt.org/arc/pwdefault.asp
Warmly,
Joshua Finkel
The ANMT Performers’ Workshop
Creative Combustion Acting Studio (http://www.ccactingstudio.com/)
Author: Elise Dewsberry
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc., Elise has been involved in the development of new works for over forty years: as an actor/singer, as a director, as a dramaturge, and as a writer. While living in Toronto, Elise served as the Assistant Artistic Director of the Muskoka Festival; the Co-Ordinator of the festival’s annual Musical Theatre Writer’s Colony, the Associate Dramaturge of the Canadian Stage Company; the Resident Dramaturge of the Smile Theatre Company; and was the co-founder of Toronto’s Script Lab. Elise spent many years touring Canada with Nine Months – a one-woman musical which she commissioned from writers Carl Ritchie and Stephen Woodjetts. Elise and Carl also co-wrote Any Body Home?, which was produced by the Cordova Bay Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia, and published by Dramatic Publishing. Elise joined ANMT as Associate Artistic Director in 2003; joined Founding Artistic Director John Sparks as Co-Artistic Director in 2010; and became Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc. in 2013. Elise is also the author and evaluator of the Book Lab and the Outlining Lab, offered online through www.writingmusicaltheatre.com, and publishes a monthly blog on the craft of musical theatre available at https://nmi.org/elises-video-blog/.