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Who Am I Now
Adding a little Character to Your Biblical Storytelling
with Randy Ritz
Saturday, April 18/26 - 9-10:30am (pacific)
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Scripture passages can include a variety of characters … and sometimes they speak. How is the ‘narrator’ voice different from the ‘character’ voice? How would you portray Elijah challenging the Prophets of Baal? Or how would you portray ‘the Women at the Well’ and speak as Jesus?
Learn how to:
• Acquire a Performance Persona rather than a full character
• Determine a character attitude by way of historical or contextual study and then reflect this attitude in your voice.
• Use eye placement to establish your narrator voice and then eye placement to move between narrator and dramatic characters
• Draw the audience into the world of the story and lead them to ‘see’ the biblical images.
Bring personality to your performance in this workshop with Dr Ritz
Leadership: Randy Ritz​​​​
Dr Randy Ritz is a performer at heart. As a spoken word artist, he was invited to Beijing China where he met and shared with Christian artists from the underground church. In movies, Randy was co-producer of a Canadian film that was shopped at the International Cannes Festival. As a musician he was front man of the 80 ‘s gospel band Higher Power where they secured a Nashville recording contract.
Dr Ritz is also an author and curriculum writer for Standard Publishing and has produced video narratives for Standard’s successful VBS program. Along the way, Randy coached Hollywood actor Nathan Fillion (Saving Private Ryan, Castle, Firefly, The Rookie) as he began to build notoriety. He delights to see God open many doors. Dr Ritz is Professor Emeritus at Concordia University of Edmonton and, once upon a time, was the Chair of their Drama Department.
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