The Hagen Summer Intensive
Monday Public Seminar Series

People Who Make Theatre
Talk About the Craft and Business

Monday, July 26th @ 7:30pm

CASTING AND CHARACTER
Tony Award-Winning Actor
Frank Wood

moderated by Tony Vellela

Frank Wood won Broadway’s TONY Award and the Drama League Award for SIDEMAN, which he performed in London’s West End and in Australia. Broadway: AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY; HOLLYWOOD ARMS. Off-Broadway: CLYBOURNE PARK (Playwright’s Horizons), SPRING AWAKENING (Atlantic Theatre), STORIES LEFT TO TELL (The Minetta Lane), and Sam Shepard’s THE GOD OF HELL. Regional Theatre: THE THREE SISTERS (Cincinnati Playhouse), PETER AND JERRY (Hartford Stage), WAITING FOR GODOT (ACT), ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (Long Wharf Theatre), LIGHT UP THE SKY (Williamstown Theatre Festival), OUR TOWN (Bay Street Theatre), HAMLET (The McCarter), THE RAINMAKER (Arena Stage) THE THREE SISTERS (American Repertory Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival, Scotland). Film: CHANGELING, THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3, THE MISSING PERSON, DAN IN REAL LIFE, THIRTEEN DAYS, IN AMERICA, PEOPLE I KNOW, POLLOCK, DOWN TO YOU, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, FLAKES, THE FAVOR, SMALL TIME CROOKS, and MICHAEL CLAYTON. Television: FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS, MEDIUM, LINE OF FIRE, THIRD WATCH, THE SOPRANOS, LAW & ORDER, LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, and LIGHTS OUT.

Tony Vellela’s column ‘Intermission Talk’ [www.intermissiontalk.net] features reviews and commentary about theatre. His award-winning play ADMISSIONS which received three New York productions all directed by Austin Pendleton, won the Best Play Award at the New York International Fringe Festival, and was published by Playscripts. He has also served as a Broadway critic and theatre reporter for several publications and is the resident critic at dramabookshop.com. Mr. Vellela was the last person to conduct a substantive series of interviews with Uta Hagen, in connection with his PBS project, which included a discussion of Albee’s WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF and Miss Hagen’s Tony Award-winning performance as Martha.

Together they talk about how casting and character affect an actor's career.

HB Playwrights Foundation Theatre
124 Bank Street
Suggested Donation: $10
Seating is limited!
Call 212-675-2370 ext. 1 for Reservations

Katie Finneran in Promises, Promises
July 12 Seminar Guest

Frank Wood
July 26 Seminar Guest