Joel Bishoff and Hank Azaria's Scene Study Class

Hank Azaria and Joel Bishoff have known and worked with each other for almost thirty years. They are commited to helping actors improve through honest, supportive feedback through work on demanding scenes that can vary from LaBute one week and Neil Simon the next. From Mamet to Pinter! We will identify bad habits and replace them with truthful, creative, specific solutions. In short, a vigorous workout! FLEXIBLE FOR WORKING ACTORS: This class will be ongoing so I expect that people will have to come in and out as work permits. Even though you would pay at the beginning of the month, if you have to drop out and give me at least one week's notice, I will prorate the rest of the month, so you only pay for the classes you can attend. You can also join mid-month and I will prorate as well. The idea is to keep the class flexible enough to fit your schedule. VERY AFFORDABLE: The class is $200 per month and if there are five weeks in the month, if you pay for four, you get one free! RESPONSIBILITIES: We assign the scenes and partners. The scenes are usually around 6 pages long and will be varied so you can work in a number of different styles and periods. It is up to you and your partner to get together and rehearse. Usually in the first work, we will just give feedback and you and your partner can go back and work on it for the next week. The second time, we will really dig in and work in detail. At that point we can decide to do it one more week or switch to a different scene and partner. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Questions, concerns, etc., please send a message to [email protected] ABOUT JOEL BISHOFF: Joel Bishoff directed the original production of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change which ran for 12 years and 5,003 performances, making it the second longest running musical in off-Broadway history. He also directed I Love You . . . in several cities across North America, London’s West End and the Mandarin language production in Shanghai and Beijing. Joel also directed the original production of Over the River and Through the Woods at off-Broadway’s John Houseman Theatre. Other directing credits include a Japanese language production of Annie in Tokyo and throughout Japan (now in its 10th yearand counting), The Kiss at City Hall at Pasadena Playhouse, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife at Laguna Playhouse, Sylvia (starring Cathy Rigby) and Too Old for the Chorus at La Mirada Center for the Performing Arts, as well as Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera which played at The Opera Comique in Paris as part of a European tour. Mr. Bishoff also did the musical staging for the national tour of The Sound of Music starring Marie Osmond (which also toured Singapore and Korea) as well as the New York City Opera production starring Debby Boone. He has directed at the Long Wharf Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, the New Yorker Theatre (Toronto), Gem Theatre (Detroit), Coronet Theatre (Los Angeles), Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center (Nyack), Stuart St. Playhouse (Boston), the Broward Center for Performing Arts (Miami), the Royal George Theatre (Chicago), Theatre at Old Towne (San Diego) among others. He has also taught at American Academy of Dramatic Art, The Graduate Acting Program at UCLA as well as a scene study class for early career actors that he teaches with Hank Azaria. An MFA graduate of Columbia University where his teachers included Alan Schneider, Jerzy Grotowski, Nikos Psacharopoulos, Howard Stein, James Hammerstein, Bernard Beckerman,Gerald Schoenfeld, Bernard Jacobs and Frank Kermode. He assistedJulie Taymor, Lynne Meadows, John Tillinger, Stan Wodewodski, Irene Lewis, and James Hammerstein. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. ABOUT HANK AZARIA: Hank Azaria’s ability to transform himself into a multitude of characters has made him one of the most sought-after actors today. He has won four Emmys and received eight Emmy nominations, one Screen Actors Guild Award and four SAG nominations and a Tony nomination. Azaria is the voice for several key characters in the animated hit comedy series The Simpsons. He has won three Emmys for his work on the show. Most recently, he starred in Fox’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian for which he received rave reviews as Pharaoh Kah Mun Rah. His upcoming film projects include Fox’s romantic comedy Love and Other Drugs, Warner Bros.’ animated feature Happy Feet 2 and Columbia Pictures’ The Smurfs (film). Azaria produced and starred in the critically acclaimed Showtime series Huff, which received seven Emmy nominations, including one for Azaria for “outstanding performance by an actor.” He also received a SAG nomination for Huff in 2004 for “outstanding performance by an actor.” In 2007, Azaria returned to Broadway to star in The Farnsworth Invention, from award winning writer Aaron Sorkin. He previously appeared as Sir Lancelot in the Tony Award-winning musical Spamalot, directed by Mike Nichols. His performance garnered him a Tony nomination for “Best Actor in a Musical.” During the summer of 2003, Azaria starred with Matthew Perry and Minnie Driver in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, performed at London’s Comedy Theatre. Azaria has also added director and producer to his credits. He co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the short film “Nobody’s Perfect,” which debuted in 2004 at the Sundance Film Festival and won “Best Short” at the 2004 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. He also received an Emmy Award and a SAG nomination for his starring role in ABC’s acclaimed tele-film Tuesdays with Morrie. He was also nominated for an Emmy for his role as David (Phoebe's "scientist guy") on NBC's hit Friends and his recurring role as Nat the dog walker on NBC’s Mad about You. Azaria’s other television credits include the Golden Globe-nominated CBS telefilm “Fail-Safe,” and the NBC miniseries “Uprising.” He received a Screen Actors Guild award nomination for his memorable turn as Agador Spartacus, the scene-stealing Guatemalan houseboy in Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage. Other feature credits include Year One, The Simpsons Movie, “Run, Fat Boy, Run,” “The Aristocrats,” “Dodgeball,” “Eulogy,” “Along Came Polly,” “Shattered Glass,” “Bark,” "America's Sweethearts," "Cradle Will Rock," "Mystery Men," "Mystery, Alaska," "Godzilla," "Great Expectations," "Celebrity," “Quiz Show,” “Heat,” “Grosse Point Blank,” “Now and Then” and “Pretty Woman.” He also lent his voice to Fox’s animated feature “Anastasia” as Bartok the comical bat. He reprised the role in the video sequel “Bartok the Magnificent.” Azaria trained at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and played Hamlet in a production of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” at Columbia University. He continued his theater studies at Tufts University, appearing in such plays as “Uncle Vanya,” “The Merchant of Venice,” “The Ballad of the Sad Café” and “The Dumb Waiter.”

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