RIP Ms. Leon We Love you CAU 09

We love you Ms. Leon !

Carol Mitchell-Leon is an educator, actor, director and writer. She has performed with many of Atlanta's theatres including the Academy, Jomandi Productions, Seven Stages, Actor's Express, Theatre in the Square and the Alliance. Her film and television credits include "Queen", "Getting Out", "White Lies", "Fried Green Tomatoes", and "Juwana Man". She has also appeared in episodes of "Heat of the Night", and "I'll Fly Away". Carol's directing credits include "Angels" with Theatrical Outfit, "Zion" with Theatre in the Square, "Seamarks", with Theatre Gael, and "Do Lord Remember Me" with Jomandi Productions.

She is currently Director of Theatre and Interim Chair of the Department of Speech Communications and Theater Arts at Clark Atlanta University. She is also the Director of the CAU Players.

Idlewild - ( Auntie Belie / 2006 / Released / )
Diary of a Mad Black Woman - ( Mildred / 2005 / Released / )
Fried Green Tomatoes - ( Sue Otis / 1991 / Released / Ascii Pictures )
Getting Out (1994)Fried Green Tomatoes
(1991)White Lie (1991)

What students will learn

Having students to participate in an innovative, interactive curriculum, students develop the necessary skills of problem solving, cooperation, and leadership.

Theater improvisation teach:


Energy
Icebreakers
Warm up

Warm up

This game and exercises is meant to get everybody in a cheery mood, establish trust between the players, and sharpen concentration.
You’d use these game at the start of a rehearsal, or as part of the preparation for a show.

10 Fingers

Description
Great game for getting to know each other in a new group. All players in a circle, holding all 10 fingers up in the air. Start asking personal questions that take yes-no answers, drops a finger. Last person with a finger left wins.
Good questions are things like "I have a cat", "I have never stolen anything" and so on.
Icebreakers

These exercises are intended to get everybody acquainted and to learn each other’s names. Use these early on in a workshop, These games and exercises can be used for improve training, but are useful in any drama and theater education environment, or indeed in any environment in which ice needs broken.

Follow the Leader

Description
All but one in a circle, one player in the middle. The middle player closes her eyes, and the rest of the group quietly chooses a leader.
Middle player opens her eyes and tries to find the leader. The whole group follows the leader, in everything he does. As soon as the middle player finds out who the leader was the game is over.
This only works if movements are clear, not too fast, and if the group `follows the leader` as fast and as precisely as possible.

http://improvencyclopedia.org/

The impotents of improvisation in children’s theater

Improvisation is the practice of acting and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or new ways to act. Technical understanding of the necessary skills and concerns within the improvised domain.