Acting Courses
ACTING MASTER CLASSES
Bring your imagination, curiosity and acting process and engage with like-minded artists once a week in an acting master class led by director LEE LEWIS .
Lee was NIDA's first graduate to receive a Masters in Directing. Prior to returning to Australia, Lee completed her MFA in Acting at Columbia University and worked for ten years in New York on Broadway and off-Broadway with directors as diverse as Julie Taymor, Andrei Serban, Anne Bogart, Andre Gregory and Robert Woodruff.
Her Australian directing credits include The Nightwatchman (Griffin Theatre Company), Love Lies Bleeding (Sydney Theatre Company), Stag and Motel (STC Wharf2Loud), 2000 Feet Away, A Number, Half & Half, 7 Blowjobs (B-Sharp); Drowned World and Vicious Streaks co-directed with George Ogilvie (Darlinghurst Theatre); Kikia Te Poa, The Share + The Hour Before My Brother Dies (Old Fitzroy); Shopping and F**king, Big Love and Arabian Night (NIDA); Trojan Women: A Love Story and Julius Caesar (Theatre Nepean); Our Town and The Tempest (New Theatre). As Assistant Director, her credits include: Boy Gets Girl, The Art of War and Riflemind (STC) and Cosi Fan Tutte (Sydney Conservatorium).
Lee also wrote Cross-Racial Casting: Changing the Face of Australian Theatre, a Currency House Platform Paper, published in 2007.
Griffin's Master Classes are suitable for those with three or more years of practical acting experience OR those that have completed formal acting training. They are practical courses that involve all participants each week. Please note that these classes are physically demanding and may not suit those with injuries.
Classes run from 6.30-9.30PM Monday evenings (excl public holidays) on the following dates:
- ACTING 3 8 SEPTEMBER – 3 NOVEMBER
- ACTING 4 28 OCTOBER – 16 DECEMBER
COST: $370 (limited to 16 people)
VENUE: UNSW
Loose clothing and suitable footwear is advised. All courses will cover the same principles, however content will vary from term to term.
TO ENROL - download the Enrolment Form at the top of this page or contact Griffin on 9332 1052
* As Griffin's tutors are professional, working artists, Griffin reserves the right to make last minute substitutions.