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"Directing Comedy" Workshop
17 Nov 2007
Upstart has engaged writer-director Sidney Brammer to teach a one-day
workshop on directing comedy. The basics of directing comedy for video, including framing, timing, and shots that utilize the potential of actors and short comic sketch scripts.
We'll take a brief buy-your-own lunch break, but mostly it'll be a
solid day of how-to.
Instructor: Sidney Brammer, comedy director/writer (Tales of the Borderland, NoWhere Man, A Ride with Bob, Border Radio: Big Jukebox in the Sky)
November 17, 2007 (Saturday)
10am - 4pm
WORKSHOP FEE: $60
LOCATION: Upstart Media Arts Center - 1800 Linda Street, Bastrop Tx
For further info call (512)303-1531
Register and pay with Paypal--
OR mail check to--
Upstart
P.O. Box 365
Bastrop, TX 78602
(please include your email address and phone number)
Workshop sponsored by Upstart, Inc.
(Phone) 512.321.2496
(fax) 512.308.1975
http://www.upstartinc.org
ABOUT SIDNEY BRAMMER
A native Austinite, Sidney Brammer was a Fine Arts major at U.T., and performing artist in theatre, dance, film, and television. Sidney helped found the award-winning regional theatre company, Big State Productions, whose signature production, In The West, toured the state for a decade and played Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in the early 1990s, representing the best of Texas theatre.
In the late 1980s and 90s she lived in New York City and Los Angeles, working as a production coordinator, supervisor, and manager on Hollywood and independent feature films as well as commercials.
In tandem with her entertainment industry career, she also worked as a freelance arts critic, feature writer, and editor for various publications, including The New York Amsterdam News, The Texas Observer, The Austin Chronicle, and the Austin American-Statesman. Today, she is an independent video and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, and educator. Her most recent work includes Story and Editorial Consultant for THE LEGEND OF GHOSTWOLF’S GOLD (directed by her former student Shane Scott), Co-director with C.K. McFarland for the premiere production of A RIDE WITH BOB (starring Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel), and Director of the new BORDER RADIO live concert radio series (produced by Texas Folklife Resources).
She is a current adjunct faculty member of the creative writing department of Austin Community College and a founder of Soco’s Alleywood Studios.
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