SPRING 2016 MASTERCLASS: Acting with Form
Psychological Gesture and Principles of Composition
Creative Principles and Tools for Actors and Directors
Scott Fielding is an internationally recognized expert in Chekhov method, with twenty-five years experience as director, actor and teacher. He is the founding director of Michael Chekhov Actors Studio Boston, who offer a one-year Chekhov Training Program and a whole curriculum that includes a one-year Meisner Foundation Training Program and other acting programs and workshops.
"Work on yourself and your craft as if your life depends on it. Because, professionally speaking, it does."
Scott Fielding
Scott Fielding, Masterclass Teacher
Fielding began his professional career as an actor, first in Los Angeles and then New York, where he trained in Chekhov and Meisner methods for ten years. He performed Off and Off-Off Broadway before turning his creative energies to directing and, later, to teaching. His productions have won acclaim in New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. As a professor, he’s served on the faculties of Emerson College, Tufts University, and New England Conservatory Graduate Opera Studies. He is a faculty member of the international Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA).
Since his first visit to the Balkans in 2004, Fielding has taught as a guest professor at the leading dramatic academies in Zagreb, Osijek, and Novi sad. He’s given more than thirty workshops in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosina- Herzegovia, and Macedonia including for the international Bitef and MESS festivals.
He directed significant performances at leading Balkan theatres, including the critically acclaimed, John Cage: A House Full of Music with Serbian pianist Nada Kolundzija, at Bitef Theatre, Belgrade, and the national award-winning, (His) Three Sisters, for Theatre MTM in Bosnia-Herzegovia. He collaborated with renowned Slovenian director Tomi Janezic for the Atelje 212 production of King Lear starring Ljuba Tadic, and again with Mr. Janezic on the Macedonian National Theatre production of Maeterlink’s, The Blind.
In 2015, he and filmmaker Luka Popadic founded Film Acting Workshop Belgrade. The Workshop welcomed 22 actors and directors from 7 countries for it’s highly successful inaugural affair, a 6-day event of acting training, lectures and a 24-hour film project that produced 10 short films.