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All acting workshops have open enrollment.
Great opportunities to act on student films and to learn from professionals, for the experienced and the novice.
Actor Katie Love cast in a gold reflection as a bank teller in the short film, Bank Scene.
Photo by Matt McNeill
Katie Love being directed by Cindy Little
Directing Actors
Acting Techniques for Camera
January-May
Focus on your individual preparation and delivery for the camera with Sagan Lewis. Actors will workshop together once a week. Each actor will also have the opportunity to schedule individual coaching sessions with Sagan.
The Film Actors Process
September-December
Actor and director, Sagan Lewis teaches the course with a dynamic team approach. Working with actors and the new class of directors from the narrative program at ZGI, helps everyone develop their understanding of each other’s roles, Lewis teaches her own style of communication in the context of the real world.
About Sagan Lewis
Sagan Lewis is best known internationally for her six seasons as Dr. Jackie Wade on NBC's award winning "St. Elsewhere". She also played recurring roles in "Homicide: Life on the Street" and HBO's "Beat".
With dozens of appearances in T.V. movies, daytime dramas and feature films including MASH, The Golden Girls, Moonlighting, About Schmidt, Class and OZ.
Her first love was theatre. She performed on stage in countless plays including:
"Whose Life is it Anyway?" with Richard Dreyfus
"Charlie's Aunt" with Dick Cavett
"Cyrano de Bergerac" with Frank Langella
"The Front Page" with Christopher Reeves
Sagan has shared the stage and screen with actors; Tony Goldwyn, Blythe Danner, Denzel Washington, Gwyneth Paltrow, Colleen Dewhurst, Timothy Robbins and many, many more.
Excellence in her work has earned her the title of "Intellegent Women in Film" by the American Film Institute, given her the rare opportunity to work with Tabakov of the Moscow Art Theatre, and honored her with guest artistships at Dartmouth and Princeton Universities.
After receiving a MFA in Acting from the University of California San Diego, Lewis studied in New York with Uta Hagan, Herbert Berghof, Ellen Burstyn, Lee Strasberg, Nikos Psauchoropolous, Alan Langdon, Mira Rustova, and Jerry Zacks. In Los Angeles she studied with Gordon Hunt, Robert Lewis and David Craig.
Sagan has taught professional acting throughout the United States including, New York, San Diego and Hollywood. Today Sagan and her son call Sedona home. She is currently a board member of the Sedona International Film Festival(SIFF) and co-chairperson of the SIFF Film Selection Committee. We are honored to have her working with us as faculty at the Zaki Gordon Institute.
ZGI ACTOR DATABASE
We have a database students use as a resource to help cast their film projects.
Great opportunity for new and experienced actors to learn more about acting for film, exercise acting skills or make a breakthrough in an independent film!
In the first semester students shoot scenes every Tuesday.
In the second semester students produce their short film thesis project, which screens at the ZGI Shorts Film Festival on Memorial Day weekend.
Being on the database will help student filmmakers contact you for weekly scene work and will allow us to notify you regarding auditions for their thesis short films.
Mail your headshot and resume to:
Zaki Gordon Institute
Att: Jeremy Hawkes
4215 Arts Village Drive
Sedona, AZ 86336
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Send headshot and resume via e-mail as a jpeg to: jeremy_hawkes@yc.edu
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Visit the school and drop it off in person.
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