National and International Master Acting teachers Kathryn Gately and Richard Poole are proud to announce the first Gately/Poole Acting Teacher Certification program. Over 400 hours of rigorous instruction integrates the disciplines of acting, voice, speech, movement, script analysis, characterization and period style. This advanced program will cover the entire canon of Sanford Meisner’s first and second year work, as well as the innovative techniques in advanced scene study and characterization developed by Kathryn Gately and Richard Poole over the last 30 years at:

• The Gately/Poole Acting Studio – its studio in New York, which trained 200 students each year in its professional program
• Two URTA/NAST schools – Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and Northern Illinois University
• The Gaiety School in Dublin, Ireland
• The Acting Intensives –held in alliance with the top industry agents and managers in NY, Chicago and
  Los Angeles, including Innovative Literary Artists and Talent.
• AIA-The School for Film and Television - co-created the first 2 year conservatory training program in the country for Film and Television.

The Gately/Poole Meisner (ATC) Program combines a comprehensive overview of the guiding principles and step-by-step progression of the exercises known as the “The Meisner Acting Technique”, developed by Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. This advanced year of training for teachers created by Kathryn Gately and Richard Poole integrates new exercises and breakthrough innovations, both in technique and in more advanced pedagogy of scene study and characterization. These developments were created at the GatelyPoole Acting Conservatory over the past 30 years - professionally, in NYC, LA, Chicago, and Europe, and academically, at two URTA/NAST schools.

The Gately/Poole Program offers 400 hours of classroom instruction in 3 modules. The candidate is guided through a complex training process of the GatelyPoole/Meisner approach to acting. 

This is accomplished through: 

1. participation as actors in the training process 
2. learning to teach the layered sequential progression with clarity, depth, and nuance. 
3. The acting classes are taught by Master Acting teachers Kathryn Gately and Richard Poole.

GOALS OF THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS for STAGE, TELEVISION, and FILM

• Provide teachers with in-depth actor/teacher training in the core fundamentals of the Meisner Technique.
• Provide teachers with the skills and knowledge to create an actor of authenticity, theatricality, and range in both realistic and period material
• Develop teaching methods to eliminate physical restrictions which reduce an actor’s emotional, expansive, or expressive behavior.
• To strengthen the teacher’s ability to identify and address all the student’s needs in class - both individually and as a group
• To develop in each teacher their own unique, distinctive style as a teacher/artist

TEACHER TRAINING SESSIONS AND MODULES

The GatelyPoole/Meisner (ATC) Program 

Two years of training is condensed into a one year certification program by offering 500 hours of classroom and private instruction.

1. Module One: Summer (3 weeks), May 21st - June 11th, 2012
2. Module Two: Summer (3 weeks), June 24th - July 15th, 2012
3. Module Three: Winter (11 days), January 3rd - January 14th, 2013
4. Module Four: Summer (3 weeks), May 20th - June 10th, 2013
5. Module Five: Summer (3 weeks), June 24th - July 15th, 2013
6. Module Six: Winter (11 days), January 3rd - January 14th, 2014

Classes, private instruction and rehearsals will meet 10 hours a day on Monday-Friday and on Saturday from 10am-1pm. In addition to acting classes, candidates will study movement, voice, and speech. These techniques will be integrated into the acting course work. 

For more information about the GatelyPoole Faculty or the Actor Training Certification Program, you can send questions to: gpconservatory@gmail.com or leave a phone # and a member of the faculty will call you within 48 hours.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
1. CV
2. Headshot/photo
3. Statement of teaching philosophy 
4. Two letters professional/graduate recommendation
5. An application fee of $50.00

materials to be Sent to: 

GATELY POOLE ATC 
110 Thistle Patch Way
Hingham, MA 02043
Lee Gately - Director of Admissions
lee.gately@gmail.com

PREREQUISITES FOR ADMISSION
1. Telephone interview with the candidate.
2. Orientation Workshop. Candidates will be required to participate in a 3 day workshop to evaluate their readiness for admission into the GatelyPoole/Meisner (ATC) Program. The workshop is also designed to give candidates an experience in the methods and techniques used during the certification process. Candidates will work as both actors and instructors during the workshop and will leave with a clear understanding of the methodologies and demands of the GatelyPoole/Meisner ATC Training Program.

• Orientation Workshop Dates May May 21, 22, 23rd, 2010
• Orientation Workshop Tuition - $300.00
• Send workshop tuition to GPATC Director of Admissions

ACTIVITIES
The Program will include trips to award-winning theatres and festivals in Chicago where students will experience the city’s vibrant theatrical community. In addition, an orientation brunch, and farewell dinner are given.

TRAVEL AND HOUSING AVAILABLE 
Partial scholarships are available

CERTIFICATION PROCESS
Certification as an Associate GatelyPoole Acting Instructor
Signifies the candidate has completed all the training necessary for certification and has exhibited a strong grasp of the concepts necessary for teaching the GatelyPoole/Meisner technique. Teachers awarded this status may be invited to participate as instructors in the teacher certification intensives with Kathryn Gately and Richard Poole.

Certification as an Assistant GatelyPoole Acting Instructor
Signifies the candidate has completed all the training necessary for certification but may require some additional training before certification is granted. Candidates who receive this status will be given certain specific goals to lead to the teacher training certification as a GatelyPoole (ATC) teacher. They also may be invited to assist in future teacher training workshops.

Certification of Completion of the GatelyPoole (ATC) technique
Signifies the candidate has completed all training for the first and second year GatelyPoole/Meisner technique.

For further information, you can send an email to: gpconservatory@gmail.com
or leave a phone # for a return call within 48 hrs

HISTORY 
Kathryn Gately and Richard Poole, Master Acting Teachers, occupy a unique place in American actor’s training history. They have created and/or developed together and separately, six distinct and highly successful actor training programs in the United States and Europe. These include the GatelyPoole Conservatory on New York City’s historic Theatre Row, GatelyPoole/Jones Intensives in alliance with Innovative Literary Artist and Talent Agency, AIA - School for Film and Television, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance, and the Gaiety School of Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. They have had great success in training actors. Many students have won numerous awards and achieved significant recognition within the acting profession. Alumni in leading roles include James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), Amanda Seyfried, (Dear John, Mama Mia, Mean Girls, Big Love), Justin Mentell (Boston Legal), Kristin Davis (Sex and the City), Logan Huffman (V), Kevin Chamberlain (Suessical, Dirty Blondes), Micah Alberti (All My Children, Wildfire), Justin Bruening (Knight Rider), Jordan Baker (Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women), Kevin Kilner (Dinner With Friends), Marc Wolf (Another American Asking and Telling), and Roger Bart (The Producers, The Steppford Wives, American Gangster). NIU alumni - Tim Kane, Tracy Arnold, Joel Huff, Joe Minosa, Chris McClinden - have appeared in leading roles in the following theatres: Chicago Shakespeare, Organic, the Goodman, Victory Gardens, Steppenwolf, and the Court. Students consistently have been nominated or received such awards as the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, the Golden Globe, the Emmy, the Ace, the Obie, the Tony, the Drama Desk, the Outer Critics, the Joseph Jefferson, the Dramalogue, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Professor Gately, who was featured in the 2008 publication, Acting Teachers in America, as an actress and teacher was given the unique opportunity to train under Sanford Meisner and William Esper. A graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse, she taught with William Esper at the Mason Gross School of the Arts in the BFA and MFA programs, and at Mr. Esper's professional studio in New York. A co-director of the Gately/Poole conservatory, Professor Gately currently heads the MFA Acting Program at Northern Illinois University, one of the few schools in America that trains with the famed Moscow Arts Theatre in Russia. She was included in the 2009 edition of Who's Who in America.

Mr. Poole, director of the Gately/Poole conservatory is one of the most prominent showcase directors in the United States. He was previously the Executive Director for the Nat Horne Theatre on historic Theatre Row, west 42nd street in New York. In that capacity, he nurtured three separate theatre companies, which included the highly successful Manhattan Class Company. Mr. Poole, an Associate Professor of Acting, and a Meisner specialist at Northern Illinois University, has been nominated for the 2010 edition of Who's Who in America.

For more information about the GatelyPoole Faculty or the Actor Training Certification Program, you can send questions to: gpconservatory@gmail.com or leave a phone # and a member of the faculty will call you within 48 hours.