Lights, Camera, Action

Bay Street Theater’s online workshop “Acting For The Camera with Don Stephenson,” is now open for registration. Sessions will be held online via Zoom on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. starting October 13. Registrants will receive private links to join each session via email from week to week.

“Acting For The Camera with Don Stephenson” is a 12-part course that will provide adults and kids ages 13 and up with an introduction to acting for the camera, where they will gain knowledge in techniques specific to television and film. Using a variety of scripts from productions currently or formerly cast and shot in New York and Los Angeles, Stephenson will provide a practical method of acting for the camera through intensive scene work; students will have online access to this material, and will be assigned multiple scenes (dialogues) over the course of the class. The fee is $500.

Stephenson is an actor and director who starred as Leo Bloom in the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of “The Producers,” and played The D’ysquith Family in the Tony Award-winning “A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder.” He created roles in the original Broadway casts of “Titanic,” “Parade,” “Dracula” and “By Jeeves.” Other Broadway credits include “Rock Of Ages,” the Tony Award-winning revival of “Private Lives,” and “Wonderful Town” at Lincoln Center. As an actor, he also has numerous television and film credits. As a director, he helmed “Titanic” at Lincoln Center, “Broadway Classics” at Carnegie Hall, “Of Mice And Manhattan” for The Millennium Stage at The Kennedy Center and many more.

For additional information about the course, contact Bay Street’s director of education Allen O’Reilly at allen@baystreet.org.