Theatre Audition Techniques Workshop

Join us for a Theatre Audition Techniques Workshop taught by Brynn Tyszka from the Blackfriars Theatre. The workshop will include mock-auditions where students can perform a 1-minute monologue and/or 32-bar song cut. You can sign up to perform at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9Zq4AKlcK_E9xaudXUjKCrcHJ3ke2gECzl6Tui_KSo/edit?usp=sharing.  

BIO: 
Brynn Tyszka, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, has worked professionally in the theatre industry for over 20 years. Prior to her new role at Blackfriars, Ms. Tyszka has served as the Social Media Manager (as well as teaching artist, director, and performer) for OFC Creations Theatre Center in Brighton and as Director of Education for Actors' Theatre of Indiana, where she also performed as an ATI cast member (A Comedy of Tenors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and a reading of Lindsay Adams' new play, Rattler). Ms. Tyszka served as Acting Department Chair for the Rochester Association for the Performing Arts (RAPA), where she developed and taught several acting classes, including Fundamentals, Scene Study, Characterization, The Art of Comedy, Script Analysis, and Movement for the Stage. Additionally, she taught acting and coached musical theater privately as the founder of BKT Studio for Actors. She has also directed and choreographed several shows for high schools, colleges, community theaters, and semi-professional theaters throughout the Rochester area. A former member of Actors' Equity Association and a proud alum of the Nazareth College Theatre Arts program, Ms. Tyszka has performed nationally on tour with NETworks and ArtsPower productions as well as regionally with Geva Theatre Center, Actors' Theater of Indiana, DEEP Arts, JCC CenterStage, Pittsford Musicals and Playhouse on the Park in Connecticut. Ms. Tyszka's history with Blackfriars began in 2006, when she played Susan in tick, tick ... BOOM! under the direction of Haldoupis. Since then, she has worked and performed several times with Blackfriars, including on Heathers the Musical (Heather Chandler), Beehive (choreographer), and Boeing Boeing (Gretchen), as well as performing in multiple Season Soirées. Most recently, she partnered with Hoskins and Hoffman to conceive, produce, and direct Blackfriars's 2020 digital holiday show, Home for the Holidays. Ms. Tyszka is the first female-identifying Artistic Director in Blackfriars's 73-year history.┬á

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Co-hosted with: Theatre Arts Program, Performing Arts Scholars (OWNER), College of Liberal Arts Student Services, Performing Arts, NTID Department of Performing Arts

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