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NELLIE CRAVENS

OBJECTIVE: To develop and nurture the creativity within each and every student

 

 EXPERIENCE:

 

TEACHER, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR

 

2008-PRESENT   Silver Moon Theatre

                        Founder and Co-Artistic Director. Produced Gaslight, by Patrick Hamilton, April, 2009. Directed Born Yesterday, by Garson Kanin,     

                        October-November, 2009. Both productions were presented in the Backstage Theater, Sonoma Community Center

           

2002-2006       Sonoma Country Day School, Santa Rosa, CA

                        Coached acting techniques, comedy techniques, voice and diction. Co-directed  20-35 students in 5 productions: Edward Bond's The Sea,    

                        Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, Tina Howe's Museum, and Shakespeare's Much Ado

                        About Nothing

 

2003                Actors Theatre School of Drama at Sonoma Country Day School

                        Developed and taught lessons on Shakespeare to 26 students; created a monograph for students, "Seven Tips for Acting Shakespeare"

                        Member of teaching/directing team, working with 26 students; co-produced musical drama, Stud Terkel’s Working

 

2002                Sonoma Country Day School

                        Developed and taught a series of lessons on Shakespeare and his works; coached 12 students in monologues from Shakespeare’s plays

 

1997                Sunset Movement Arts, San Francisco, CA

                        Developed and taught 10 students, ages 8-14, a course in acting techniques; directed students for scene performance

 

1996                Duveneck School, Palo Alto, CA

                        Directed 29 students, ages 10-12, in a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet

 

1997-1983       San Francisco Attic Theatre, San Francisco, CA

                        Stage Manager: Alice in Wonderland, 12 performances, Gould Theatre, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco. Taught

                        Improvisation (Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced) to 9 classes, each of 12-16 students, ages 8-18. Developed and taught Introduction to

                        Shakespeare.

                        Taught Acting Techniques, Beginning and Intermediate, to 4 classes of students, ages 8-16

 

SKILLS:

                        Acting Techniques, Comedy Techniques, Improvisation, Shakespeare, Acting on Camera, Voice and Diction

                        Dialects: British, Irish, French, Norwegian, American Southern, New York.

                        Musical Instrument: Piano

           

UNION MEMBERSHIPS:

                        Actors Equity Association

                        Screen Actors Guild

                        American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

 

EDUCATION:

1983-1997       Studied with Richard Seyd (A.C.T.), Tony Taccone (Berkeley Repertory Theatre) Richard E. T. White (Eureka Theatre), Geoff Hoyle

                        (physical comedy), Ed Hooks (commercial TV); Stewart Brady, Kate Rowland (voice)

1978-1983       San Francisco Attic Theatre: Acting techniques, improvisation

1982                National Theatre of Great Britain at Santa Fe: Shakespeare, comedy techniques (Simon Cowell, Michael Ockrent)

1954-1957       Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA: English Literature, Mathematics

 

Theatrical and On-Camera Resumes available on request.