Live Workshops
Your Facilitator
Leland Faulkner grew up in Africa, Afghanistan and Iran, and has traveled throughout Europe, and the Far East. He studied with a variety of distinguished teachers including master mime artist Tony Montanaro with whom he partnered for three years.
For four years he was the co-owner and director of The Celebration Barn Theatre, in Maine, there he established an international roster of master teachers and innovative workshops that continue to bring top ranked training experiences to the theatre field.
Leland is also an award winning film maker and digital media producer, holding a degree in Motion Picture Studies from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California. Some of his awards include a national Cine-Eagle Award, The Videographer’s Award, Best Children’s from The NY International Independent Film and Video Festival, and winner of The Maine Short Film Competition.
Leland has been a touring theatre artist for over twenty five years, and has performed and taught at international theatre and circus festivals in Hong Kong, Russia, China, Canada, the U.S., and Japan. For seven years he was on the distinguished roster of Affiliate Artists®, out of New York City, and was sponsored by major corporations to perform in communities around the United States as part of an artist residency program bringing career artists to underserved communities.
Leland lives in Maine, where he develops new projects for stage and screen, while enjoying life with the two lights of his life, his wife and daughter.
Class Description
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Mastering Movement for Stage and Screen
By starting at the beginning, performers will see how to use space to take advantage of blocking and choreography. Create physical eloquence with the vocabulary of mime. We will discuss and demonstrate the techniques of working in front of the lens, and what questions performers and actors should have when working for the camera.
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The Laws of Gesture and Kinetic Acting
We will explore the how, where, when, and what to move. Understand how to use movement techniques to become understood, authentic and believable. Practical and applied movement methodology is an advanced knowledge base that every performer should understand. Understanding gesture and the psychology of blocking, provides the performing artist with character development, clarity of mind, committed spirit, physical eloquence and mastery of space.
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Acting, Premise, and the Vector
Explore how physicality can make your performances pop by having audiences sense your inner life, not just the mask of words, but the life behind them. Learn unique ways of creating scenes and applying solo improvisations to your work. Play theater games designed to explore the magical realm where vectors occur and create theater.
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Designing and Devising
By integrating the methods of his theater masters, modern media, and the technical training of motion pictures, Leland has evolved a path where participants can become architects of their own work. By creating a performance using graphic physicality and corporeal form, artists can craft meaningful theater journeys for their live and virtual audiences. Tangibly mapping the work using the metaphoric archetypes resourced by writers, storytellers, film makers, and directors around the world gives great insight into the elements of structure. The seminal ideas of Jung and Joseph Campbell have provided an enlightened approach to character and plot development. Their concepts are explored and applied to performance, and the craft of creating memorable work.
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Applied Performance Session
Validation through performance is a key to elevating individual and ensemble work. Using years of insight and experience Leland guides performers toward individual power and presence.
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Participants should dress prepared to move. Have enough space where they can move.
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Participants should bring a notebook and pencil, 5x8 index cards and a sharpie.
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The meeting will be recorded for participants to privately review afterwards.
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Downloadable notes will be provided.