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Ground yourself in authenticity and develop on-camera audition skills with scene study, self-tape techniques, and relaxation exercises, finishing with a completed audition tape.

WhaT You WilL Learn

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Develop on-camera audition skills with scene study.

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Learn self-tape techniques, and relaxation exercises.

Walk away with a completed audition tape.

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1 DAY INTENSIVE

Sept 30th

7-10pm

$99

@Eubie Blake Cultural Center

847 N Howard St. Baltimore, MD 21201

ENROLL IN AUTHENTIC AUDITIONS
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Taura Musgrove

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Chinai Routté

INSTRUCTORS

Taura Musgrove is a filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland and a graduate of Johns Hopkins University’s Film & Media MA program. She has studied acting, writing and directing for close to twenty years. She trained at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Bay Area Theater Sports (taking Improv with Rebecca Stockley), San Francisco Acting Academy and Film Acting Bay Area (FABA) under Sundance and Cannes Award-winning filmmaker Rob Nilsson. It was under Mr. Nilsson that she learned his Direct Action technique for acting and directing. She appeared in and directed several projects with him. With her Bay Area film collective, she produced, One Weekend A Month, a film that went on to win an honorable mention award for “best short” at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. She worked as an assistant to award-winning actor Delroy Lindo, and eventually joined the Marketing and Documentary Departments of Pixar Animation Studios as a Production Manager and Associate Producer. She looks forward to developing community with actors and actresses in Baltimore who, like her, love the craft.

Chinai Routté was born in Baltimore and spent her formative years in Georgia. Chinai has been acting professionally for almost two decades.  Having fallen in love with the craft as a young person; she charted her path across multiple mediums including stage, film, vertical media, print and commercials.  She has trained with Vera Katz, John Pallota, Karan Kendrick of The Kendrick Academy, among others.  She has taught drama and dance at public schools in Baltimore, Atlanta and New York; and designed arts curriculum for students at the world famous Apollo Theater. Her acting credits include POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive at Everyman Theatre; Room Enough (For Us All) at Rattlestick Theater and Fire This Time Festival; The Trip to Bountiful at Cleveland Playhouse and Round House Theatre; and the World Premiere of The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years at the Alliance Theatre and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Films include: The Day Before Christmas (2024 BET+ Holiday Release); I Never Said Goodbye; The Sound of Light; Air Junie and Process.