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Announcing A New Session of
Audition Boot Camp Honing the Skills You Need For Those Pesky Auditions

6 week Acting Workshop
Taught By Actors Repertory Theatre, Artistic Director, Jonathan Marten
New Evening Session Starts Monday, April 6th, 7pm
Join Us for a Free Sample Class On Monday, March 30, 7pm Call 917-463-1097 or Email Now To Reserve A Space, [email protected]
Audition Boot Camp Class Description.
This class is designed to help you make dynamic choices in your auditions.  You will hone your audition skills with monologues for the stage, and work on cold reading techniques for the camera. Audition Boot Camp will also help your ability to market yourself successfully by putting together a solid resume and learning how to pick the right headshot.
Jonathan’s Philosophy On Teaching the Craft of Acting.
  I’ve always believed no two human beings are the same which translates into no two actors being the same (I may be stretching it, equating actors to humans, but what can I say — I’m an optimist).  That being the case, I’ve never understood why any two techniques for working as an actor should be the same.  Fitting the actor to the technique is bullshit; any technique should be fitted to the unique personality, qualities and needs of the actor utilizing it.  Those who develop specific “methods” and teach them as dogma may make great gurus, but they’re not very helpful for actors who want and need the tools to allow them to create their own method for working — one that can grow and change as we all do.  My job is simply to help any actor I work with feel confident in knowing they will always have the tools to create characters as unique and interesting as themselves.
Teacher Bio.
New York City native Jonathan Marten has an extensive theatrical background as actor, writer, director and teacher.  Jonathan has taught acting, coached actors for auditions, coached stand-up comics and offered seminars for companies around the country for more than 25 years. His Audition Boot Camp and Advanced Scene Study classes, were popular fixtures at NYC's Creative Acting Company, as well as for ART.  His numerous stage, screen and television appearances include national tours of Grease and Godspell , the ABC soap, The Edge of Night, Spin City, Eddie, Celebrity, Fred in the off Broadway premiere of The Christmas Carol Conspiracy: Scrooge’s Revenge, Lenny Bruce in Lenny, Roy Cohn in Angel’s In America, and, most recently, the NY  premiere of Manly Men:  An Evening Chock Full of Lies & Testosterone and the World Premiere of Euphoric Tendencies (both of which he also directed).  Among his more than 40 other directorial credits are productions of Luv , Standing On My Knees, Company, Social Security, Tomfoolery, and Blood Ties.  Jonathan studied acting at Emerson College, The Actor’s Institute, The American Theatre of Actors, The School For Film & Television, with John and Lee Strasberg at the Lee Strasberg Institute, Ed DeLeo and Eric Loeb.

The Actors Repertory Theatre (ART), is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to bringing Broadway and off-Broadway quality theatre to our audiences. As a company, performing under agreement with Actors Equity Association €” the national union of professional stage actors €” and under the guidance of Managing Director Tanya Marten and Artistic Director Jonathan Marten, ART has been an important and innovative force in the theatrical communities of southeastern Virginia, Frederick, MD, Chicago, IL, and now, the state of New Jersey €” since first opening its doors in December, 1996.
In April, 2006, after helping co-produce the film version of our world premiere stage show, Player's Joy, ART relocated our base of operations from Chicago to New Jersey, where, aside from continuing our commitment to developing and producing new works for the live stage, we will also explorie the development of new works for the medium of digital film. Our goal is, and has always been, to be a major contributing force to the cultural life of the communities in which we are located and work.
HISTORY
Over the past nine years, ART, operating first as 2nd Story Theatre, and, after our 2002 name change, has been nominated for more than 40 awards for theatrical achievement. Mal Vincent of The Virginian Pilot called us "The most daring and innovative theatre in Hampton Roads," and €œhead and shoulders above the rest.€? Critic Robert P. Arthur of Portfolio Weekly, the arts and entertainment magazine of southeastern Virginia, concurred, having bestowed, among others, Best New Play, Best Actor, Best Actress and Most Innovative Theatre Awards on ART/2nd Story and its productions. We also mounted more full productions of new works than any other theatre in Virginia, including many written by playwrights living within the state.
Performing first, in a 75-seat, 2nd story loft space in the Ghent section of Norfolk, VA, and eventually, in a 23,000 square foot former Masonic Temple, ART/2nd Story brought many new works to the area including the original NY cast of From The Fires: Voices of the Holocaust. Among the many innovations ART/2nd Story presented were post-show open mike coffeehouses, cabaret performances, dance recitals, poetry competitions, improv nights, art and photography exhibits and ongoing classes, workshops and seminars.
Past shows presented by ART/2nd Story include: "The Players from Chelm," produced in cooperation with Norfolk'sfamed Chrysler Museum of Art and performed on their stage, "The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life In The Universe," "Spic-O-Rama," "Manly Men: An Evening Chock Full of Lies and Testosterone," "The Holy Fool," "The Lunar Project," "Quetzal Red and Green," "The Music of Leaves: A Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh (a multi-media choreopoem in poetry, music, and dance)," "Caged Gorillas," "Shirley Valentine," the East Coast premiere of screenwriter Pamela Gray€™s "Supernormal Clutches," and the World Premiere of Ralph Elias's "Player's Joy."
MISSION
Actors Repertory Theatre was founded by a group of performing arts professionals in an effort to help fill the need for a venue where professional actors, directors, playwrights, screenwriters and technicians could develop innovative productions of contemporary works, new plays, musicals as well as screenplays for the rising independent digital film market.
It is our goal to explore issues of importance in our diverse community while challenging our audience with provocative works.
Additionally, ART is committed to the training and development of aspiring theatrical talent, as well as offering ongoing training for experienced theatre professionals. This vision is realized through classes and workshops, our season of plays, special group outreach projects, a developmental new-play and screenplay reading program and encouragement of related art forms.
Nurtured by its core of professionals, ART was created to provides a home for the emerging theatre and digital film artist.