MARCAs Virtual Workshops
We will be hosting virtual workshops to meet with select recruiters and discuss do's, don'ts, and common practices for auditions. What are recruiters looking for? How can you make your audition stand out against the rest? All this and more in free discipline-specific workshops online.
Click here to share your interest and reserve a spot for any of our virtual sessions below.
Design/Tech workshop: October 5th at 7pm
Acting/Musical Theatre workshop: October 12th at 7pm
Dance workshop: October 19th at 7pm
Email us with any questions at midatlanticauditions@gmail.com
Recruiters hosting:
Design/Tech
Dirk Durossette
Dirk Durossette has been designing and teaching in the greater Philadelphia area for the past fifteen years. Credits include: Off Broadway-Any Given Monday-59E59 Theatre. In Philadelphia he has designed for Amaryllis Theater Company, Azuka Theater, Act II Playhouse, Delaware Theater Co. Enchantment Theater Company, Theater Exile, 1812 Productions, Freedom Theater, Flashpoint Theater, Gas and Electric Arts, InterAct Theater Company, Luna Theater, Lantern Theater (Barrymore Nomination- Skylight), Rock School of Dance, Theater Horizon, The Wilma Theater, ,PlayPenn, Temple Theaters, Temple Opera Theater, University of the Arts, Burlington County College (NJ) Peabody Institute (Baltimore), West Chester University, Villanova University.
Nora Smith
Acting/MT
Ross Beschler
Ross Beschler (he/him) has been a professional actor for nearly 20 years, and is a founding member of the Wilma Theatre’s Hothouse Company in Philadelphia. He is also a Hothouse Associate Trainer, and teaches the company techniques in summer sessions and international workshops. (https://wilmatheater.org/artists/hothouse-company/)
Ross is also a founding member of the site-specific performance collective Die-Cast. https://www.die-castphilly.org/
In addition to Rowan, he has taught acting and movement at Temple University, the University of the Arts, and Rider University.
BA: Columbia University. MFA: Temple University.
Melanie Julian
Melanie Julian joined the Temple University Acting Faculty in 2008. Prior to her move to Philadelphia she had been a member of the Acting Faculty at the University of California at Davis, where she headed the voice and speech curriculum for the undergraduate and graduate acting programs. She has experience with, and trains students in Fitzmaurice Voicework, Centre Artistique International Roy Hart, Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association (VASTA), Actor/Combatant stage combat training, Theatrical Intimacy Education with the Educator Advocate Program, and works as a voice and dialect coach throughout Philadelphia. A member of Actors’ Equity, Melanie has performed as an actor in New York, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Sacramento, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh; and currently serves as the Head of Undergraduate Acting at Temple University
Lane Savadove
Prof. Lane Savadove, the Head of Directing at Rowan University, has been directing and teaching nationally and internationally for over 30 years. He is the founding Artistic Director of the award-winning EgoPo Classic Theater in Philadelphia, now in its 33rd year. Savadove has worked and trained closely with innovators Judith Malina at The Living Theater, Lee Breuer at Mabou Mines, Ping Chong, and Anne Bogart of SITI Company. He has directed over 50 productions internationally, regionally, Off-Broadway, and on National Public Radio. He holds his MFA in Directing from Columbia University and his BA from Haverford College. Lane has been a Professor of Acting and Directing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, The National University of Indonesia, and Loyola University, New Orleans, where he was Head of Directing.
Dance
Leslie Bush
Leslie Bush is a Philadelphia based dance and visual artist. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with a focus in contemporary dance from Indiana University, and a Master of Fine Arts in dance choreography and performance from Temple University. Leslie has presented her improvisational work throughout the Philadelphia and New York region, most notably in the Philadelphia Fringe, and Art in Odd Places Festivals. Leslie has worked with Drexel University as a movement expert and consultant for motion capture research; and led a production at Rowan University, collaborating between dance and theater students, and robotics engineering faculty and graduate students. She has been awarded grants such as the Illuminate the Arts Grant and Small But Mighty Arts professional development grant for her contributions to the field. Her ongoing creative research into dance and interactive technology is frequently included in colloquiums, publications, and workshops. Leslie’s writing can be found in The Dancer Citizen and on thINKingDANCE.net.
Noel Price-Bracey