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Shoot & Splice: Corey Parker – Acting on Camera & Working with Actors
02/02/16
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
COREY PARKER: ACTING ON CAMERA & WORKING WITH ACTORS
Presented by Crosstown Arts & Indie Memphis
Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis are pleased to welcome actor and acting coach Corey Parker to February’s Shoot & Splice. Corey will discuss acting for the camera along with a panel of local actors who have worked with him and have appeared in local indie film productions.
Corey Parker’s actors have appeared in The Bourne Supremacy, Chavez, Don’t Come Knockin’, The Final Cut, Masters of Sex, Chicago Med, Quantico, House M.D., Mad Men, Revenge, The Closer, as well as on Broadway: Raisin in the Sun, You Can’t Take it With You, Sylvia, Catch Me if You Can, Lysistrata Jones. He has starred or costarred as an actor in films at Universal, 20th Century Fox, Lorimar, Vestron, as well starring or costarring on Showtime, BBC, PBS, ABC, NBC, and CBS and FOX. He has coached writers on tour and at TEDglobal. Locally, he has worked with Brian Pera, Mike McCarthy, Ryan Parker, Willy Bearden, Bryan Artiles. He was a guest artist at Rhodes College from 2008-2014, and has taught acting at many studios in New York and L.A. He is a member of the Actors Studio and the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York. Corey interviews actors. directors, producers, teachers and casting directors on his blog: memphisactor.blogspot.com
Connect, converse, listen and learn at Shoot & Splice, our monthly filmmaking forum. Arrive early to hang out with fellow attendees, then grab a drink and kick back for the evening’s presentation. A wide variety of technical, educational, and fun topics of interest to the Memphis filmmaking community will be featured. Don’t miss this monthly opportunity to be a part of the Memphis filmmaking community and learn things you probably didn’t know you wanted to know. Have an idea for a topic you’d like to see covered? Email justin@crosstownarts.org.
