1 WEEK CAMP INTENSIVE-5 DAY, 3-hours per day, Beginner Camp July 15-19 10AM- 1PM, or Intermediate Camp Aug. 5-9 10AM-1PM at SPIRIT SQUARE, 345 North College Street, Charlotte, NC, 28202.

Beginner Camp includes--Relaxation and Sense Memory Exercises,Theatre Games, Voice Projection, Movement, Improvisation with in-Depth Scene Study. The teachings of Stanislavski, Adler, Meisner and Katselas will be explained and explored. Learn though scene critique how to create realism in performance including using personalization, substitution, creating a place, intent, creative hiding and physical action. One afternoon will be devoted to "on-camera" cold reading and the audition process.
Friday there will be a scene performance. Parents are invited.

Intermediate Camp includes--Continuation of in-depth scene study. For the camper who completed the beginner camp week.

The curriculum taught in this camp is for the serious acting student who wants to gain a foundation in the arts and pursue a career in acting.

About: Linda Ann Watt -- acting instructor, director, member of Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Radio and Television Artists SAG-AFTRA and owner of Corlin Productions, a union signatory production house in Los Angeles and Charlotte, which produces film, television, commercials and documentaries. Through Corlin Productions, Watt produced The Method based on Stanislavski and Strasberg, written by Lorrie Hull, Ph.D., with Cloris Leachman, Martin Landau and Shelley Winters. The material contained in the educational DVD was the only teaching tool approved by Lee Strasberg.

Watt attended New York Academy of Theatrical Arts (under scholarship), American Theatre of Actors (ATA) and Stella Adler Conservatory. She later studied extensively with Milton Katselas (director Butterflies are Free, broadway/movie) and with Lorrie Hull, Ph.D., master teacher for Lee Stasberg. She found Hull's work so inspiring, she helped Hull produce "The Method" educational teaching tools. Watt has taught an Enrichment Arts Program through UCPS and Wingate University and she was invited by Blumenthal Performing Arts Center's Educational Department to teach her educational program, Spring 2011. Watt received A GAP grant through the UCCAC and the NC Arts Council, three consecutive years to teach the Enrichment Arts Program through Union County, NC public schools.