In-Person 1-Year Directing Program

Starts: Monday, September 12, 2022
In-Person - September 12, 2022 - June 26, 2023, Mondays, 6:30-9:30pm

  

Prerequisite: Students must apply and audition for this program.

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TEACHER BIO

Theater Direction: Broadway; Mike Birbiglia's The New One(Cort Theater). Off-Broadway; Thank God for Jokes (Lucille Lortel nomination), All the Rage (Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle nomination), My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, (Lucille Lortel Award, Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle nominations — final performance at Carnegie Hall), Sleepwalk With Me (Nightlife Award), The Tricky Part (OBIE Award, two Drama Desk nominations), Pentecost (Drama Desk nomination), Old Wicked Songs (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award & Garland Award), Good (Straw Hat Award), and many more. Television: Co-director of Thank God for Jokes for Netflix; Director of Mike Birbiglia’s My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend for Netflix. Film: Co-director for Sleepwalk With Me. Screenwriting: Co-writer of Sleepwalk With Me. Playwriting: Co-adaptor of Enemy Of The People (an adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People) Producing: Consulting Producer for Don’t Think Twice; Co-Producer for Sleepwalk With Me Live. Theater; worked with Berkeley Rep, New York Theater Workshop, The Long Wharf, The McCarter, The Geffen Playhouse, The Intiman, Sundance Theatre Lab, The Promenade, The Signature Theater, Asolo Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose Rep, The La Jolla Playhouse, Two River Theater, Playhouse 91, La Mama e.t.c., The Perry Street Theatre, Provincetown Rep, and The Barrow Group. A professional acting and directing teacher, Seth recently served as a Master Teacher at the International Director’s Symposium in Spoleto, Italy, and is author of the book An Actor’s Companion–Tools for the Working Actor, published by TCG.  As an actor, Seth appears regularly in film and on television.

  

Location: 
In-Person Classes - 520 8th Avenue, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10018*
Online Classes - held via Zoom

*Valid government-issued ID required for entry to the building

    Please Note:

All payments for classes are non-refundable (unless a class is canceled).
If you need to cancel a class for any reason, you must notify us by email at least one week before the class begins, and we will apply a credit to your account for a future class.
As our faculty are all working professional actors, directors and playwrights, we reserve the right to change teachers at any time.
Commitment is for the duration of the session. THERE ARE NO CREDITS OR REFUNDS FOR MISSED CLASSES. If you discontinue any class before the ending date of the session, you forfeit your fee.