Free Stage Acting Workshops

August 21 - October 2

This Event Is Now Full. However, Reservations Are being Taken For The Next Session. Times And Dates Will Be Announced Soon.

The Gate Theater Group, in partnership with Chiang Mai Theatrics, will begin offering free stage acting workshops for adults 18 years and up this coming August. Our aim is first, to provide the basic skill set needed to produce truthful stage acting. Ultimately, we would like to cast these trained actors in plays and other activities with The Gate Theater and Chiang Mai Theatrics. At the same time, participants will gain valuable experience to use for other casting and performance opportunities that may become available in film or with other performance groups in the future.

Meeting twice a week, this 12 hour workshops will give participants the opportunity to learn the basics of acting technique, explore a bit of character study and dive into some cold scene work. At the end of the workshop there will be an ensemble performance to showcase the work in front of a live audience.

You don’t need to be great to get started but you do need to get started to be great!

About your host:

Stephan Turner, has been involved in theater arts as an educator and professional actor for over thirty five years in the United States, Cambodia and Thailand.

Highlights of Stephan’s career include:

Head of Drama department at Chiang Mai International School from 2009-2017

Founder and Artistic Director for Stage Actors Ensemble of Chicago through the 1990’s

Artistic Director for the Performance Loft Theater, Chicago, 1997-2003

Founding member and Artistic Director of The Bryn Mawr Theater in Chicago in 1990.

Teaching drama and directing musical theater for the Gary Public Schools Gifted and Talented Program, “Little People’s Theater”, Gary IN in the mid 80’s.

Founder of the Gary Creative Workshop Theater in the late 70’s

Stephan is also the founder of the first English language Theater company in northern Thailand, The Gate Theater Group. Located in Chiang Mai Thailand, The Gate has been in operation since 2007 and has put on over 30 in productions on Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai since its inception.

Most recently, Stephan has worked as casting assistant for the Academy Award Winning Film Director Spike Lee and his production company 40 Acres & a Mule, https://www.40acres.com/ on his new film “Da 5 Bloods”, due to be released later in 2019.
www.stephanturner.com