ACTING FOR SOAP & FILM

 

PETER MINER

PETER MINER...(Soap/Film Technique) directed the daytime series, One Life to Live for twenty years picking up two Emmys in the process. Currently he teaches directing at the Columbia University Graduate Film School and on-Camera Acting at T. Schreiber. He has directed a number of Off-Off Broadway productions and several short films. Most recently he directed "Purty Sky" by Ben Henderson for Ensemble Studio Theatre Writers and Actors Workshop. He again directed "Purty Sky" along with "Going to Hell," also by Ben Henderson at the Ensemble Studio Space.

Some of Peter's thoughts on acting:          

"If you are working on camera, you better not be acting in a scene, you better be having an experience."                       

                                                                  Tony Bore

 

"What you gotta be is like a duck; absolutely still on the surface, but paddling like hell underneath."

 

                                                                  Robert Stevens

 

"Speak soft. Think loud."

                                                                  Montgomery Clift

 

"Good acting is like mountain climbing; you have to want to go where it's scary to go, where most other people want to go. And you have to get a thrill out of doing it."

 

                                                                  Peter Miner

 

MICHAEL LAIBSON

MICHAEL LAIBSON...(Soap Technique) - Until Sept. '98, Michael was Senior Producer for ALL MY CHILDREN. He has been Executive Producer for GUIDING LIGHT, ANOTHER WORLD (Emmy Winner), Producer for AS THE WORLD TURNS, Associate Producer for GUIDING LIGHT. Director (Off-Broadway) LOVELIEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR at the 45th St. Playhouse, THIEVES New York Talent Systems. He has taught for the Saratoga Arts Festival and has a degree in Theatre from UCLA.

Personal Philosophy: "You are safe in my class to fail without humiliation. If you do not push yourself towards the possibility of failure, you cannot experience the thrill of growth.

I see acting as a career filled with responsibility. It is your duty as actors to provide emotional experience for our audience - to give them the opportunity to feel openly, through your performance, something that would otherwise be unavailable to them.

Acting is fun but it takes guts."

 

LINDA LAUNDRA

LINDA LAUNDRA...(Soap/TV Technique) Linda has spent over 10 years in Daytime television, receiving Emmy nominations as a producer and director. She has worked at three major networks; first, GUIDING LIGHT, then ANOTHER WORLD and finally, ALL MY CHILDREN. 

 

Her first ten years in New York were in the theatre. She spent her first few seasons on Broadway with The Theatre Guild and the APA/Phoenix. She then moved on to be the Artistic Director of The Writers Theatre, where she began her collaboration with Tom Fontana. She produced and/or directed all of his new plays for nearly 10 years. She received the Downtown Villager Award and the Torch of Hope Award for her contribution to the theatre. She produced over 30 plays off and off-off Broadway. She directed the award winning, "My Own Stranger", the writings of Anne Sexton; "The Gospel According to Mark Twain", which also played the Edingurgh Festival, "Anna, the Gypsy Swede" with Viveca Lindfors and "The Overcoat" with Austin Pendleton.

 

Most recently, she and her husband/collaborator produced with Tom Fontana their first film, "JEAN". An award winning success, they have four films in development and are collaborating on a new show for cable. They also team teach for NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and New York Institute of Technology. Places they have taught "Acting for the Camera"; NTI, O'Neill Theatre Center; Buchnell University; Connecticut College; Millbrook Studios, New Brunswick, Canada; and repeatedly in Nova Scotia.

 

 

Personal Philosophy: 

"This is a technique class...practical solutions to adapt your performance from stage to screen.

There are specific technique requirements to work effectively on camera; particularly 'multi-camera live on tape'.

"My years of experience in Daytime Drama will help you learn how a studio works: What to expect...How to prepare...How to plan your day."

 

 

NORMAN HALL

NORMAN HALL...(Soap Opera) - Directed Network Daytime Television including ONE LIFE TO LIVE (6 years, Emmy Award 1982-83), THE DOCTORS (8 years), ANOTHER WORLD (3 years), SANTA BARBARA, LOVING and SEARCH FOR TOMORROW

 

Currently, Producer/Director of New Playwrights Showcase, Great Neck/North Shore Public Access Television Channel 71. 

 

Off-Broadway: Equity Library Theatre, New Dramatists, Stagewrights, Circle Theatre

Regional: Long Island Stage

 

Stock: Norwich Summer Theatre, Virginia Beach Theatre-Go-Round

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JIM BAFFICO

JIM BAFFICO...(Film Technique) - Ph.D. Univ. of Mich., M.A. and B.A. Univ. of Nebraska. Currently Directing ALL MY CHILDREN (Emmy Winner in 1995) also ONE LIFE TO LIVE, SWAN'S CROSSING, DAYS OF OUR LIVES. Producer - "THE COTTONWOOD" also ANOTHER WORLD, DAYS OF OUR LIVES. Produced/Wrote Films for Universal, Vista and Paramount.

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