Most recently, I coached an entrepeneur in the up and coming Dragon’s Den to much acclaim.

For more information, go to my website, www.presentedge.com

Summer Acting Course

using Meisner’s Approach

Do you want a simple and effective way to boost your acting skills?

Based on the work of Sanford Meisner, this acting course offers special tools to create dynamic performances. The course is open to anyone, from new actors through to established professionals who want to develop their acting technique. Recognising the craft of acting & the unique gifts each person brings to the work – this course gives anyone interested in acting a strong foundation to draw on – as well as being a bucket-load of fun!

First,

A one-week intensive

This introduction to some of the work of Sanford Meisner will help you:

· act more truthfully and courageously

· give you an edge in auditions

· improve your confidence and self-knowledge

· enhance your playing range, spontaneity and “presence”

Open to anyone, from new actors through to established professionals who want to develop their acting technique

Tutor: Edward Nelson

Dates: Monday – Friday 11 th January 15 th 2010

Times: 10am – 4:30pm

Location: Abbotsford Convent (Arts, Cultural and Learning Precinct) Melbourne

Cost: $375

($325 early-bird booking price if paid in full by December 14th, 2009)

For more information, email Edward Nelson at info@edwardjnelson.com or call 0403 897 326. web: www.edwardnelson.net

Optional Week 2 Extension

Meisner Based Scene Study

18th – 22nd January, 10-2pm

($600 for both weeks)

Building on Week 1, Week 2 Scene Study will show you how to apply the technique to scripts. Available only to those who have done the first week, you will work together on scenes to put Meisner’s approach into action. Over the course of the week you will learn how to:

· apply Meisner’s technique to scenes

· make exciting and realistic choices

· analyse scripts effectively, and

· bring more to rehearsals

Plus learn a whole lot more about what works for you as an actor!

Opening this Tuesday the 21st July at the Bridewell, I will be playing Don Pedro, the match-maker extraordinaire along side a brilliant cast.  The show runs for 45 minutes over your lunch hour and goes for three weeks.   So if you want a laugh and a chance to see a Shakespeare in an audience friendly style, check out the details below and come along:

Bridewell Theatre, Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ, July 21 – August 7, 2009

TIME: 1pm – 1:50, Tues – Fri only. £6 on the door £5 in advance. You can bring your lunch!

Box Office: 0207 353 3331

See link for location: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=531584&y=181081&z=0&sv=ec4y+8eq&st=2&pc=ec4y+8eq&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf

Published Tuesday 26 May 2009 at 18:55 by Gerald Berkowitz

The C Company’s brisk Macbeth, performed within the time constraints of a lunch hour, captures the relentless speed of Shakespeare’s shortest play with minimal sacrifices of clarity and characterisation.

In this modern dress staging, Edward Nelson’s Macbeth is seen first as a callow prince of the city, whose baptism by blood leaves him a broken and pessimistic cynic, while Emma Powell’s sensuous Lady Macbeth, for whom the “Unsex me here” invocation is almost orgasmic, proves too brittle and fragile to survive without her husband’s support.

Textual trimming is intelligent and unobtrusive, the largest cuts including Duncan’s scenes, Banquo’s murder, and the Macduff family, all covered by later dialogue, and Malcolm’s self-slander, while the ever-present witches double as various nobles, servants and messengers.

The updating doesn’t all work, the weakest touch being the introduction of the witches as a hen party after some serious drinking, while some staging, like the raising of the prophesying spirits, is more murky than evocative. But director Aileen Gonsalves and the cast are to be credited for natural and colloquial line readings throughout that give a freshness and reality to familiar speeches.

See link here – The Stage/Review/Macbeth

Prithee peace, I dare do all that may become a man...

After their acclaimed production of California Suite, Macbeth comes to the Bridewell.  See below for details:

Bridewell Theatre, Bride Lane, EC4Y 8EQ, May 26^th – June 12^th

TIME: 1pm – 1:50, Tues – Fri only. £6 on the door £5 in advance. You can bring your lunch!

Box Office: 0207 353 3331

See link for location: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=531584&y=181081&z=0&sv=ec4y+8eq&st=2&pc=ec4y+8eq&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf

Height: 6’2 (189cm)            Weight: 75kg (11.5 stone)

Hair: Midlength, Brown    Eyes: Hazel

Click here for showreel.

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FLETCHER JACOB

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