Vlog 21 – The Work of a Scene Part 5: “Delivering Theme”

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Vlog #21 “The Work of a Scene - Part 5 - Delivering Theme.”
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[NoHo Arts District, CA] – Elise Dewsberry’s How to Get NO Feedback from Elise: Vlog #21 “The Work of a Scene – Part 5 – Delivering Theme.” 

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. 

To see more from this series, subscribe to the vlog at http://nmi.org/nmi-resources/elises-video-blog/

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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Elise Dewsberry Artistic Director, New Musicals Inc. Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc., Elise has been involved in the development of new works for over forty years: as an actor/singer, as a director, as a dramaturge, and as a writer. While living in Toronto, Elise served as the Assistant Artistic Director of the Muskoka Festival; the Co-Ordinator of the festival’s annual Musical Theatre Writer’s Colony, the Associate Dramaturge of the Canadian Stage Company; the Resident Dramaturge of the Smile Theatre Company; and was the co-founder of Toronto’s Script Lab. Elise spent many years touring Canada with Nine Months – a one-woman musical which she commissioned from writers Carl Ritchie and Stephen Woodjetts. Elise and Carl also co-wrote Any Body Home?, which was produced by the Cordova Bay Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia, and published by Dramatic Publishing. Elise joined ANMT as Associate Artistic Director in 2003; joined Founding Artistic Director John Sparks as Co-Artistic Director in 2010; and became Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc. in 2013. Elise is also the author and evaluator of the Book Lab and the Outlining Lab, offered online through www.writingmusicaltheatre.com, and publishes a monthly blog on the craft of musical theatre available at https://nmi.org/elises-video-blog/.
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