Prepping your materials for College applications & auditions can be stressful and overwhelming. Let us help you!
Join award winning Director and adjudicator for AMDA's College and Conservatory, Nick Degruccio, as he personally coaches you on your audition selections and material choices. Plus give you priceless insight into what college adjudicators are looking for when choosing whom to bring into their programs!
This workshop will:
· Support you in select appropriate audition material
· Personally coach & advise you on your audition song and monologue. Plus enhance your overall performance and package.
· Help guide you and your family through the complex, sometimes overwhelming audition/interview process.
Being thoroughly prepared and confident that you're presenting yourself at your best in your interviews and auditions will give you an edge over the other audition applicants!
**NICK WILL BE GIVING A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF TIME AND ATTENTION TO EACH PARTICIPANT.
THEREFORE ONLY 14 SPOTS WILL BE ALLOTTED SO BE SURE TO SIGN UP TODAY!**
ABOUT NICK DEGRUCCIO
Director Nick Degruccio is best known to San Diego audiences for his direction of The Full Monty at SDMT and Next To Normal, where he was nominated for best direction for the San Diego Critics Circle Awards.
He is the proud recipient of the LADCC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theatre and is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Lab West and is currently serving as an adjudicator for the AMDA’s west coast theatre arts programs.
He recently directed In The Heights (Orlando Shakespeare),In The Heights (TUTS), Man of La Mancha (Orlando Shakespeare), Guys & Dolls (TUTS), The Last Five Years (La Mirada Theatre), Carrie(UCLA), Southern California Premiere of First Date (LA Mirada Theatre), Sondheim’s Company (Cabrillo Music Theatre) and the world premiere of The End Of It at the Matrix Theatre. Additionally he directed Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory for The Laguna Playhouse and The Andrews Brothers at Coyote Stage Works where he won Best Director for the Desert League Awards.
His other Award Winning Productions include:
* LA Region Premiere Production of Next To Normal (La Mirada, 8 Ovation Nominations, including best Direction)
* The Laramie Project (Laguna Playhouse and Colony Theatre: LA premiere, OvationAwards for Best Play, Best Direction, Best Ensemble)
* Side Show (LA Premiere, 8 Ovation Nominations including direction and was voted One of the Top 10 Plays by The Los Angeles Times)
* Jekyll & Hyde (Cabrillo Music Theatre: Ovation Award for Direction, 9 Ovation Nominations)
* 1776 (Musical Theatre West/PerformanceRiverside/Cabrillo: 5 LA Ovation Awards including Direction and Best Musical)
World Premiere of Caught (Zephyr Theatre), Putting It Together, A Year With Frog and Toad (South Coast Repertory), The Last Five Years (LA Premiere, Pasadena Playhouse), Cinderella (TheOrdway), My Way (La Mirada), Man of La Mancha, RENT, West Coast Premiere of The Andrews Brothers (Musical Theatre West), Guys and Dolls (Cabrillo Music Theatre), and The Fantasticks (Performance Riverside).
As the Artistic Director of Havok Theatre Company, he directed the LA Premieres of Dog Sees God, Kiss of the Spider Woman (LA Ovation Award for Production), Thrill Me and The Story Of My Life.
LA Premieres: The Spitfire Grill (Laguna Playhouse: OC Weekly Award Best Musical),
Zanna Don’t (West Coast Ensemble: LADCC Award for Direction), Bad Apples (Rubicon Theatre: World Premiere Play), A Man Of No Importance and Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (Musical Theatre Guild), Basic Training (2nd Stage: NAACP Nomination for Direction).
Additional Ovation nominated productions: Side By Side By Sondheim (The Rubicon Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse), Guys and Dolls and La Cage Aux Folles (Musical Theatre West), I Do! I Do!, (Pasadena Playhouse), Beehive (El Portal Theatre) and City of Angels (Ovation Award for Production). www.nickdegruccio.com
ABOUT AMDA
American Musical and Dramatic Academy. The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) is a college conservatory for the performing arts located in New York City and Los Angeles, California. The Conservatory offers both Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees and two-year Certificates in Professional Performance.
For over 50 years, AMDA has launched some of the most successful careers in theatre, film and television. AMDA creates industry professionals who don't just wait for life to happen—they stage their own career path. Watched by the eyes of millions, our graduates take the world's stages, film sets and movie screens, changing the way we think about art in the 21st century.
DISCLAIMER
This workshop is not an audition and does not guarantee attendees representation, preferential treatment, and/or a job opportunity from any of our guest industry professionals. This workshop is for educational purposes only and will not secure any type of representation by SDMT and/or their affiliates.
