Don’t miss THE WORK OF A SCENE series:

1. PART 1 “The Moment Before” 
2. PART 2  “Plot” 
3. PART 3 “Pointing Forward”
4. PART 4 “Planting Seeds”

Here’s the 21st post in the video in the video blog from New Musicals Inc (NMI) Artistic Director Elise Dewsberry – How to Get NO Feedback from Elise ….

Part 5 in the short series on the work of a scene discusses “Delivering Theme” and the benefits of making sure that, in every scene, your lead is in pursuit of goals that will lead them towards the illumination of your theme. 

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About Elise Dewsberry

Elise Dewsberry is an actor/singer, director, and dramaturge who is currently the Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc. in Los Angeles.  

Selected performances: Mother’s Mothers’ Day (a one-woman four-character musical about the founder of Mother’s Day performed at the Hollywood Fringe); Singing Sixty (a one-woman birthday celebration at Rockwell Table & Stage); Domina in Forum at Cabrillo Music Theatre, Forks in the Road (NMI’s 2015 Fifteen  Minute Musicals); Aline Barnsdall in Frogs in the Living Room; Mary Marie; The Angel of Painted Post; Now and Then a Hero at the 2011 Stages Festival; Red v. Blue (NMI’s 2008 Fifteen Minute Musicals); Spellcasters at the Secret Rose; and Queen Mab’s Alarmingly Mandatory Bridal Shower at the Noho Arts Center and Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Selected Directing: Bravo (2019), Spellbound (2017 Stages Festival); Invisible at the Colony and 3-D Theatricals; City of Light at the Colony Theatre; Bloodline and Mad Bomber (for the 2013 Stages Festival); Mary Marie; Love Bytes; NMI’s 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018, and 2019 Fifteen Minute Musicals; At Home In Mitford; and The Water.

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Don’t miss THE WORK OF A SCENE series:

1. PART 1 “The Moment Before” 

2. PART 2  “Plot” 

3. PART 3 “Pointing Forward”

Here’s the 19th post in the video blog from New Musicals Inc (NMI) Artistic Director Elise Dewsberry – How to Get NO Feedback from Elise …. Part 4 in the short series on the work of a scene discusses “planting seeds” that will pay off later in the plot.

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Don’t miss How to Get NO Feedback from Elise: Vlogs – THE WORK OF A SCENE – PART 1 and PART 2.

Here’s the 19th post in the video in the video blog from New Musicals Inc (NMI) Artistic Director Elise Dewsberry – How to Get NO Feedback from Elise …. Part 3 in the short series on the work of a scene discusses “pointing forward” in every scene to some action or event that will occur – or at least have consequences – in a future scene. 

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Here’s the 18th post in the video blog from New Musicals Inc (NMI) Artistic Director Elise Dewsberry – How to Get NO Feedback from Elise … In the short series “The Work of a Scene – Part 2,” she discusses exposition, plot, and action. 

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Here’s the 17th post in the video blog from New Musicals Inc (NMI) Artistic Director Elise Dewsberry – How to Get NO Feedback from Elise …This vlog begins a short series on the work of a scene – beginning with the “moment before.”

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Here’s the 16th post in the video blog from New Musicals Inc (NMI) Artistic Director Elise Dewsberry – How to Get NO Feedback from Elise … Once you’ve done all the ground work on your concept, theme, and plot – it’s time to write the rough draft.

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The 15th post in the video blog from New Musicals Inc (NMI) Artistic Director Elise Dewsberry – How to Get NO Feedback from Elise … –  talks about another picky technical issue – scene transitions. Productions today are very cinematic in the flow of scenes – how can you make sure your script flows from scene to scene in a stageable way? 

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The 14th post in the video blog from New Musicals Inc (NMI) Artistic Director Elise Dewsberry – How to Get NO Feedback from Elise … –  talks about Stage Directions – identify your characters (do we hear their name?). This vlog covers the picky technical issue of proper etiquette for stage directions: what belongs in them, and what doesn’t. 

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Year two! The 13th post in the video blog from New Musicals Inc (NMI) Artistic Director Elise Dewsberry – How to Get NO Feedback from Elise … –  is “ANSWERING A QUESTION.” Okay, there WILL be feedback. This video talks about three different ways to answer a question that comes up during feedback. 

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The 12th post in the video blog from New Musicals Inc (NMI) Artistic Director Elise Dewsberry – How to Get NO Feedback from Elise … –  talks about dealing with feedback. Okay, there WILL be feedback. This video talks about how to DEAL with it. 

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