Richard Gilbert-Hill Acting Class

"Working with Richard was an incredible experience. His understanding of Shakespeare is phenomenal and he challenged my understanding of my characters, in both contemporary and classical monologues, to give them far more color and depth. Working with him is an opportunity you will not want to miss out on!"

Ryan Wagner - Musical Theater Major - Western Michigan University

THE CLASS: Following the principles created in The Gordon Hunt Acting Workshop, Richard teaches actors that they need to take responsibility for their own work. There are too many directors in film and Television (even stage!) that are more consumed with the technical aspects of production and don’t have a language to talk to actors. To that end, everyone is asked after they work how they felt it went so they can develop an outside sense of their work as well as an inside sense. Every class starts with core acting exercises that develop the craft of acting or auditioning skills. The bulk of the class is spent in the performance of fully memorized and rehearsed scenes or monologues, followed by a critique and maybe a reworking of the scene or monologue.  This class is for serious high school students and adults.

Session I
Wednesdays - September 20 through November 8, 2017
6:45 PM to 8:45 PM

Registration before September 14 - $320
Registration after September 14 - $350
Nightly Drop In - $55

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Richard Gilbert-Hill has been a working actor since 1976 when he got his first job in Pocatello, Idaho. In 1977 he graduated from Eastern Michigan University and went on to become an original member of the Court Theatre Company which began its inaugural season that same year. In 1985, he was a member of the Young Company at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Ontario, Canada. During the second season with the Young Company, he first began to teach high school and college students Shakespeare and Voice and Speech, as part of a three-month tour. After moving to Los Angeles in 1987, he taught Voice and Speech at the Academy of Radio Broadcasting in Huntington Beach, California. He also began a 30-year relationship with Gordon Hunt and his Acting Workshop, first as a student and then as full acting instructor. He worked with the Oklahoma Shakespeare Festival as a Guest Artist, playing Benedick in a production of Much Ado About Nothing. He has also been a member of the Mechanicals Theatre Company in Los Angeles (Rhinoceros, 12 Angry Men, Twelfth Night, The Elephant Man). He has Guest Starred on many television shows including Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Seventh Heaven, and Third Rock From the Sun. He is also a produced writer for television (Renegade, Highlander, The Perfect Nanny).
 
Currently, Richard is teaching weekly classes in Voice and Breath and Muscularity (Language Production). Since the passing of Gordon Hunt in 2016, he has teamed up with Gordon’s daughter, Helen Hunt, and continues teaching the Gordon Hunt Acting Workshop.