Tuesday, October 26, 2010

A Balancing Act - Internationally Known Guest Artist Emmanuelle Chaulet is Coming to Theatre VCU!

We are thrilled to welcome Emmanuelle Chaulet November 1- 5, 2010.

Listen to what Professor Josh Chenard has to say about Ms. Chaulet: "I am so thrilled Emmanuelle will be leading workshops at VCU in November. Emmanuelle has directed me in several productions including the American Premiere of Xavier Durringer’s A Taste of the Killing on the Tip of the Tongue. We formed a succesful, New England based theatre company called Two Lights Theatre Ensemble in 2000, and Emmanuelle continues to direct, teach and act most recently in the award winning Sundowning directed by Jim Cole. She is an international film actress, an amazing director, an author, and a vibrant and giving teacher."
Emmanuelle Chaulet's biography:
Emmanuelle Chaulet studied acting and the Michael Chekhov technique with Robert Cordier in Paris and also with Lisa Dalton and Mala Powers. A Fulbright Scholar from the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York, she is a theatre director, teacher and actress with over 25 years of experience in theatre and film both in France and the United States.

As a professional actress, her credits include lead roles in such movies as Boyfriends and Girlfriends by French New Wave master Eric Rohmer, and All the Vermeers in New York by Jon Jost (an American Playhouse Production and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s best independent film of 1991), and supporting role in Chocolat by Claire Denis. Most recently she performed the role of Darcie, opposite Minor Rootes in the award winning film Sundowning, by Jim Cole.

She toured with several theatre productions including three written and directed by Xavier Durringer. Her directing credits include: Chekhov’s The Marriage Proposal and The Brute, Strindberg’s Miss Julie, The Maids, by Jean Genet and an American premiere by Jean-Luc Lagarce, Music Hall. At USM she directed A Taste of Killing on the Tip of the Tongue by Xavier Durringer, Rest Stop, an original play by Elias A. Bresnick, Phaedra by Jean Baptiste Racine, and Africa/Portland about African women refugees in Portland. In 2002 and with Two Lights Theatre Ensemble, she translated and directed La Promise by Xavier Durringer, thanks to a major grant from Etant Donnés, the fund for the performing arts from the French Embassy in New York, and another grant from the Maine Arts Commission and Maine Humanities Council. Most recently she directed El Cid Au Flamenco at Saint Lawrence Arts Center in Portland and at the Theatre At Monmouth.

Emmanuelle is the founder and director of Starlight Acting Institute and Adjunct Faculty at the University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre, where she has directed several main stage shows. She also holds the position of Arts Events Director for both the USM School of Music and the Department of Theatre.

Additionally, she is a certified Energy Awareness Counselor, and RYSE® III Practitioner from the Polarity Realization Institute of Massachusetts and Maine, where she studied healing modalitites with Nancy Risley, and Lasca Hewes. For the last ten years, she has developed and applied a new acting technique called Energize! a holistic approach to acting which Starlight Acting Institute is dedicated to teach.

As a teacher she has conducted workshops in French cinema, acting, energy awareness, public speaking and Energize! a holistic approach to acting for the University of Southern Maine, Bates College, American College Theatre Festival, L’Oreal and most of the graduate schools of Paris, including La Sorbonne.

At USM, she received the 1998-99 Theatre Faculty Award presented by the Student Performing Artists. She was guest of honor at La Mostra, Venice Film Festival, Cannes, London, Montreal, Paris Festival D’Automne, Avignon, Toronto and the New Caledonia Film Festival and was was President of the Jury at Québec Film Festival in 1990. She was selected for inclusion in the 2007 “Who is Who in America” and in the 2008 “Who is Who in the World.”
 
DO NOT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY to work with Ms. Chaulet!
 
Sign-up sheet is in the Student Lounge.

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