11 AM to 5 PM on both Saturday and Sunday May 18th and 19th, 2024
(Actors must be 16+)
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Saturday Schedule (Drama Focused)
11 AM - 1 PM: Introduction and initial scene work. Students are required to prepare and present a scene of their choice. Distribution of drama scenes selected by Gio before Lunch.
1 PM - 2:30 PM: Lunch Break (Note: Lunch not provided.)
•2:30 PM - 5 PM: New scenes with followed by a Q&A session, providing insights into
the acting industry and techniques.
Sunday Schedule (Comedy Focused)
• 11 AM - 1 PM: Sitcom Basics - An introduction to the unique demands and styles of sitcom acting. Distribution of sitcom scenes selected by Gio before Lunch
•1 PM - 2:30 PM: Lunch Break (Note: Lunch not provided.)
•2:30 PM - 5 PM: Sitcom scenes and feedback.
$299
Limited to 15 actors.
Giovannie Espiritu's identity is inherently political: A bisexual, once-undocumented immigrant Filipina mom who spent time in a Biblical doomsday cult as a teen. Her first short film, “Ultra-Feminist,” got an Honorable Mention at Outfest:Fusion, and her second film, “ALLY 3000,” won over 12 awards at film festivals mainly in scriptwriting and social justice. Most of her work has taken aim at dismantling the patriarchy, healing generational trauma, and exposing systems of bias with humor. Her IRL and reel life mantra is to “Break Hearts Wide Open and Create More Moments of Joy.” As an actor, she was once nominated alongside Academy Award nominees Alfre Woodard and Amy Irving for Best Supporting Actress, but she didn’t know what to do with that information other than put it on her business card.
Her primetime credits include a recurring role on ER (NBC), Bones (FOX), Gilmore Girls (ABC), and Trauma (NBC). She can currently be seen as the lead in the Amazon series, “Dyke Central,” which was featured in After Ellen, BuzzFeed, Bust Magazine and Curve Magazine as a top LGBTQ series to watch. She can currently be seen as Nancy on the Tubi Original “Titanic 666,” alongside Jaime Bamber, Keesha Sharp, and Annalynne McCord. She coaches kids/teens/adults online internationally through HollywoodActorsWorkshop.com and was the on-call coach Rosalie Chiang for Pixar’s Turning Red.
In her spare time, she rock climbs and advocates for Domestic Violence Awareness/Prevention and LGBTQ equality. She has served on the Board of Directors for C.O.R.A. (a Bay Area domestic violence hotline and agency) and was awarded a Certificate of Recognition from the Senate and California Assembly for her community service.
She is a member of the Alliance of Women Directors and the Producers Guild of America. In 2021, she was recognized as one of 23 "Most Influential Filipina Women in the World" in the Innovator & Thought Leader category by the Filipina Women's Network.
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