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Kate Vozoff |
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Biography of LORINNE VOZOFF
Lorinne Vozoff is the Artistic Director
of Theatre Group Studio, where she teaches, writes, performs, and directs productions.
Her educational background includes the University of Illinois, UCLA, and four years at the Actors and Directors Lab in Los
Angeles. She studied the Stanislavski System with Jack Garfein, and attended Acting and Directing workshops with Harold Clurman--whose instruction and guidance continues to influence her work.
Eventually, Ms.
Vozoff taught classes at the Actors and Directors Lab. She also taught courses at La Verne College in Claremont, California, conducted workshops at the University of New Mexico, Las Cruces, and Birmingham Southern
College in Alabama where she lectured, and performed in productions as guest artist. At Padua Hills Writing Festival she taught Acting for Writers and often teaches the advanced acting class, Scene Study According to
Stanislavski, at UCLA Extension.
For the past several years, Ms. Vozoff has led an ongoing workshop for professional actors from which she founded Theatre Group Acting Company. Productions include an adaptation
by Vozoff of Strindberg's CREDITORS, as well as HERITAGE, RENDEZVOUS, SPEAK TO ME AND RELEASE, and SENSE OF TIME, all written by Vozoff for her company and produced at Theatre Group Studio. Vozoff's THE ASSASSINATION OF HEINRICH REINEBACH
is currently running at the studio through July, 2008. Here is a slideshow of our productions.
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George Clooney, Lorinne Vozoff, Anthony Edwards
on the set of ER. Photograph by Jim McHugh/Outline |
Credits
Lorinne Vozoff has performed lead roles in over a hundred theatre productions including MEDEA, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, FEFU AND HER FRIENDS, ESCAPE FROM HAPPINESS, THE MAN OF DESTINY and CREDITORS.
Her film and television credits include SHINING THROUGH,
IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES, JACK THE BEAR, HEART AND SOULS, SIX FEET UNDER, L.A. LAW, ER, NYPD BLUE, STAR TREK, MELROSE PLACE, QUANTUM LEAP, ARLISS and PARTY OF FIVE as well as numerious movies for television.
Author, author
Among her many dynamic roles, Ms. Vozoff is also the author of Changing Circumstances: An Acting Manual, (amazon.com rates it five stars) published by Heinemann Theatre Arts.
Currently, she's busy writing another acting instructional book, using exercises developed by Constantin Stanislavski and taught by Vozoff at her Theatre Group Studio.
Member
Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
Actors Equity Association (AEA)
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
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Biography of KATE VOZOFF
KATE VOZOFF grew up in the
Method. Her extensive background in theatre includes classical theatre, modern theatre, performance art, as well as independent film. Her recent Los Angeles credits include a memorable performance as
Hester in Athol's "Hello and Goodbye". One critic described her performance as "captivatingly powerful" and suggested that she was a cross between "a young Shelly Winters and Gena Rowlands".
Kate's
long list of credits include performances as Emilia in OTHELLO by Shakespeare, Mertuel in DANGEROUS LIAISONS by Christopher Hampton, Ellida in LADY FROM THE SEA by Henrik Ibsen, Kyra in SKYLIGHT and
the Actress in THE BLUE ROOM both by David Hare, Mrs. X in THE STRONGER by August Strindberg, Lady in ORPHEUS DESCENDING by Tennessee Williams, Emma in BETRAYAL and Sarah in THE LOVER both by Harold Pinter.
Experts consider her the best Pinter actress in Los Angeles.
Recently, Kate gave a merry, funny performance at The Loft Studio in a reading of
THE POWDER ROOM as the bewildered, tipsy Natalie.
In
addition to her acting and teaching, Kate is the author of FATHER Q BALL and an adaptation of THE DEAD by James Joyce. She is a frequent writer for Children's Hospital.
For the past eight years, Kate
has been teaching Method Acting at TGS. She brings her unique style of teaching to every class and her students love and respect her. Kate is often asked to do private coaching of actors for auditions and
performances. Actors rely on her guidance and sensitivity. Without a doubt, she is one of the most knowledgeable and competent Method acting instructors in America.
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Biography of DONALD FREED
Donald Freed, distinguished award winning playwright will lead a playwriting unit at Theatre Group Studio, beginning in September 2008. He has taught at USC as
Distinguished Professor of writing. He is currently Playwright in Residence at the University of Leeds, U.K.
Donald Freed is a recent Pen Drama Prize winner for his DEVIL'S ADVOCATE.His plays, prizes, books, and films include: Inquest (directed by Alan Schneider);
Secret Honor
(directed by Robert Altman); CIRCE & BRAVO (with Faye Dunaway, directed by Harold Pinter); THE QUARTERED MAN; ALFRED AND VICTORIA ( A LIFE); VETERANS DAY (with Jack Lemmon and Michael Gambon; THE WHITE CROW; EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM.
Three Rockefeller Awards; two Louis B Mayer Awards; Unicorn Prize; Gold Medal Award, Berlin Critics Award, N E A award for "Distinguished Writing", Hollywood Critics Award; Jonathan R Reynolds Prize.
Agony in New Haven; Executive Action (novel and film with Dalton Trumbo and Mark Lane); The Glasshouse Tapes; The Spymaster (B O M ); In Search of Common Ground
(with Eric Erikson, Kai Erikson, Huey P Newton); The Existentialism of Alberto Moravia (with Joan Ross); Death in Washington: The Murder of Orlando Letelier.
New books, plays, and films include: IS HE STILL DEAD? ( with Julie Harris as Noira Joyce); Love and Shadows
( from the novel by Isabel Allende); SOKRATES MUST DIE (with Ed Asner); DEVIL'S ADVOCATE, (produced by Shakespeare and Company in the United States); a novel, Every Third House; and HAMLET (IN REHEARSAL).
Mr.
Freed's new play PATIENT #1 will have its world premiere in May 2008 in York. The run was sold out before its opening.
"Donald Freed is a writer of blazing imagination, courage and
insight. His work is a unique and fearless marriage of politics and art. I take my hat off to him."
-- Harold Pinter
"Donald Freed is the most political and pertinent of all American playwrights."
-- Studs Terkel
"We are in the presence of an outstanding dramatic artist, one of huge intelligence,
political daring and theatrical imagination."
-- The Gate Theatre, Dublin
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