Artemisia Workshop for Actors - June 1

Secrets to Booking the On-Camera Job from a Hollywood Insider

Considering a move to Los Angeles or want to raise the bar on your on-camera acting career? This 3-hour workshop, taught by a working actor for working actors, gives you the tools you need to make a successful transition from stage to screen.

Know Before You Go : The Inside Scoop on Hollywood 

Facts & Stats, 
Film, Television and Commercial Markets

Know Which One You Are 

Tools of the Trade 

Great Headshots, Resumes & Demo Reels 

Hollywood Agents - Do’s and Don’ts 

LA Casting Directors – How to make them love you! 

Booking the Job: Ins and Outs of the Casting Process 

On Camera Auditions 

Callbacks & Going to Network 

On Set 

Fifty bucks gets you access to vital information that will help you build great marketing tools, prepare yourself for success and create lasting and successful relationships.

Taught by Julie Proudfoot, Founding Artistic Director of Artemisia, A Chicago Theatre and a SAG-AFTRA and AEA actor. Julie lived in Los Angeles for more than a decade and works as an actor in independent film, national and regional commercials and television and theatre. 

Saturday, June 1, 2013 – 1:30 to 4:30 PM at Holy Covenant United Methodist Church, 925 W. Diversey in Chicago.

REGISTER NOW!

Artemisia Seeks Designers for 2013 Season

Lighting, set, costume and sound designers sought for Artemisia's world premiere of GAMBIT, opening in November at Signal Ensemble Theatre in Chicago.  Lighting and sound designer sought for Artemisia's 2013 Fall Festival of Staged Readings, performing September 20 & 21 and 27 & 28 at Holy Covenant United Methodist Church in Chicago.  Please submit your resumes to workartemisia@gmail.com.  Artemisia is a not-for-profit, Chicago-Area Theatre working under AEA contracts.

Audience selects GAMBIT as Artemisia's 2013 production!

A seemingly innocent game of chess symbolizes the battlefield between a brilliant but troubled law student, and her aunt, a powerful U.S. attorney, as they fight over the law student's imperiled future.

Ross Tedford Kendall's smart and uncompromising examination of the relationship between an ambitious US Attorney and her violently rebellious niece won the audience vote at Artemisia's 2012 Fall Festival of Staged Readings.  This world premiere will open for an exclusive, limited run in November 2013 In Chicago.  Julie Proudfoot will direct  Suzanne Petri and Miriam Reuter in this entertaining, insightful two-hander that challenges the perception of women.  Gambit opens November 8, 2013, at Signal Ensemble Theatre in Chicago and will run through November 24, 2013.  Performance times and ticket information to be announced!

Gambit playwright Ross Tedford Kendall is a graduate of USC's Cinema-Television school (now School of Cinema Arts), and USC's Master of Professional Writing Program. His full-length play, Still Born, has received staged readings in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. His full-length play, Whirlpool, won honorable Mention in the inaugural Ohio State New Play Contest.

Thanks to Something Blue's Audience

Artemisia thanks all who have attended our inaugural production!  We've gotten great responses from everyone; our mission is strongly reflected in Something Blue.  Only two more chances to see this world premiere play.  Come to the Fasseas White Box Theatre at 1535 N. Dayton tonight, Saturday, November 3rd, at 8:00 pm or tomorrow, Sunday, November 4th at 4:00 pm.  Tickets can be purchased at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/261002 and enter 241blueART to get your 2 for 1 discount.  See you there!  

Something Blue Video

Something Blue is smart, sexy, raw, and disturbing.   Watch our marketing video featuring directorAzar Kazemi and actors Julie Proudfoot and David Blixt.   This exclusive world premiere play opens October 25th and runs through November 4th for eight performances only at the Fasseas White Box Theatre in Chicago.  Performances are at 8:00 PM Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 4:00 PM on Sunday.  Buy tickets at brownpapertickets.com.

Celebrating New Works with Something Blue

 The premiere of Something Blue will open on October 25th at the Fasseas White Box Theatre in Chicago. Something Blue was featured as one of five plays in Artemisia's inaugural Fall Festival of Staged Readings last year. After each reading the audience voted whether or not the play should be Artemisia's first-ever full production. Something Blue won hands down.

The story is deeply contemporary. Two forty-something creative types, Mia and Parker, hit a major snag in their careers which threatens to destroy their passionate romance. She's a painter, longing to find and release the real "artist within" and he's a struggling novelist obsessed with writingabout his increasingly troubled marriage.

Julie Proudfoot plays Mia. "Being the playwright could put me at a disadvantage. But lucky for me I get to work with an amazing director, Azar Kazemi, with whom I've been able to establish complete and total trust. And there's my treasured 'Parker' David Blixt, who is an actor's actor if ever there was one." Julie headed to Chicago a few years back after many in Los Angeles. Her work as an actor includes TV, Film and classical work on stage, but it's the challenge of "new works" that she loves. "Nothing is a greater high then being the first actor to explore and create a character. It's like walking on the moon."

David Blixt plays Parker. He is very familiar to Chicago audiences, having worked at The Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, Northlight, Griffin, Lifeline, and CityLit. He is a founding member of A Crew Of Patches Theatre Company andan Artistic Associate at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival. David says of Something Blue, "This is my first non-classical piece in quite some time and I can't tell you how exciting it is for me.

This exclusive premiere runs for only eight performances. Don't miss it!  Buy your tickets today!  Buy Tickets Now!

Azar Kazemi directs Something Blue

Azar is currently assisting Lisa Portes who is directing Night Over Erzinga at Silk Road Rising. Azar most recently directed Crave by Sarah Kane at The Blind Owl where she also serves as the founding artistic director. Last winter she directed the mid-west premiere of Jack's Precious Moment by Samuel D. Hunter at Will Act For Food. She is a graduate of DePaul University's MFA directing program and has worked at Silk Road Rising, Victory Gardens, Next Theatre, and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Before moving to Chicago Azar worked in New York City at the Off-Broadway company The New Group. There she assistant directed three productions, two of which were directed by Ethan Hawke. Please visit theblindowl.org to see what Azar will be working on next.

"Something Blue is a sexy fight between two people for 90 minutes, just my kind of show! The first time I read the script I was infected by the push the pull between the characters and how we have all had a relationship like Mia and Parker. That inescapable connection that you can't imagine letting go but that you know will drown you if you don't manage to stay above water. It's the kind of relationship that makes us feel alive but that also threatens to take away our identity. Something Blue is exciting on the page and I can't wait to get it on its feet and feel the electricity between this accessible and fascinating play and a live audience!"