Saturday workshop to give would-be actors free advice

Published 12:01 am Monday, October 22, 2012

PORT TOWNSEND — Key City Public Theatre will offer a free workshop this Saturday, Oct. 27, exploring the auditioning process.

The session, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St., is being held just in time for Key City’s general auditions Nov. 9 and 10.

Activities in Saturday’s class will help actors tap into their confidence as well as their creativity, instructor Amy Sousa noted, adding that she will cover techniques to use in rehearsal as well as in the audition room.

The workshop will delve into audition monologues: creating staging for them, ways to add spontaneity and truth, and how to carry oneself throughout the tryout.

Each actor should bring a two-minute monologue to use in the workshop. Preregistration is necessary too at www.KeyCityPublic

Theatre.org. After the free workshop, actors may choose to sign up for fee-based coaching.

To help actors prepare for plays to be produced in Port Townsend this winter and spring, perusal scripts for the shows in Key City’s 2013 season are available now at the theater company’s offices at 1128 Lawrence St.

Office hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and the phone is 360-379-0195.

Then Key City Public Theatre’s General Auditions, open to actors of all ages and experience levels, will be held at 6 p.m. Nov. 9 and 2 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Key City Playhouse.

Actors who participate are eligible for roles in any 2013 production, including Key City’s main stage shows, the PT Shorts literary readings and the WordPlay Reading Series.

Sousa, who is leading the audition workshop as Key City’s education coordinator, holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and worked for 15 years in New York City schools, teaching acting, writing, storytelling, voice and movement classes.