On Set Boot Camp with Donna Lynne Champlin
WHEN: June 16 and Tuesday June 17 (Monday and Tuesday for the working theater community)
11am-3pm both days
HOW MUCH: $300
WHERE: A Studio in Midtown Manhattan
WHO IS IT FOR?: This class is for theatre professionals (specifically) AFTER they get the TV Film job. What does the theatre professional need to know / be prepared for on their first (2nd or 3rd) on-camera job? Donna Lynne will teach you.
WHAT ISN’T IT?: This is NOT an acting class. This is a technical class about what else you need to know on set.
WHAT IS IT AND WHY?: This bootcamp is designed to give theater professionals the tools they need to have a successful experience on set. You’ve worked so hard, sent so many self tapes, spent thousands of dollars on on-camera acting classes, but THIS CLASS is essential. First way to piss everyone off? By blowing a take because you don’t know how to do something. Donna Lynne will spend the second day setting up scenarios for the actors who enroll to work. She will send you through various actual things that have happened to her, and explain what you’d need to know to do it correctly.
Don’t blow a take by not know what kind of shot it is.
Don’t blow a take by not knowing how to hit your mark (it’s different on camera!)
Don’t blow a take or your reputation by not knowing basic onset etiquette and vocabulary.
Many things work in favor of the theater actor in the film and TV world. Learn how to harness and use what comes naturally, while learning new skills. Donna Lynne will outlive everything she’s learned as she’s remained a theater professional with years of Broadway experience, and expanding her roles to numerous high profile roles in TV and Film. She’s here to help you not become what the crew of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend called her for her first year as a series regular, “Sabotage Donna.”
Gracie, OBIE, and Drama Desk winner Donna Lynne Champlin is best known for her role as the beloved "Paula Proctor" on the CW's Emmy award winning TV show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, “Ms. Barb” in NETFLIX’s Feel The Beat and as "Detective Nikki Henry" on the NETFLIX mini-series The Perfect Couple where critics hailed Champlin as "impeccable", "first rate" and a "dead pan scene-stealer".
Champlin graduated with a High Honors BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. A Princess Grace Foundation award winner and a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, she also received intensive training in Shakespeare and Chekhov at Oxford University on the Advanced Acting Scholarship and The Vira I. Heinz Grant to study abroad.
Her film credits include Birdman, Downsizing, Yes God Yes, A Secret Promise, The Audition, The Dark Half, By Jeeves, and Five Questions. Her TV credits include Elsbeth, Law and Order: SVU, The First Lady, Another Period, The Good Doctor, The Good Fight, The Good Wife, Submissions Only, Mother's Day, The (54th and 60th) Annual Tony Awards on CBS, The View, Poetry of America, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Regis and Kelly and Emily Dickinson of the PBS Voices and Visions series. She can also be heard as the voice of many animated characters on shows like Hotel Transylvania, Batman: Caped Crusader, Centaurworld, Star Vs the Forces of Evil and Baby Shark's Big Show! and on numerous cast albums and including See Rock City, Sweeney Todd, By Jeeves, 3hree and My Life with Albertine .
Her Broadway debut in 2000 as "Mary Jane" in James Joyce's The Dead was quickly followed by another Broadway turn as "Honoria Glossop" in the Alan Ayckbourn/Andrew Lloyd Webber musical By Jeeves in 2001. In 2002, came the opportunity to work with Carol Burnett and Hal Prince in Broadway's Hollywood Arms - the dramatization of Carol's biography One More Time, in which Champlin played the iconic comedienne. Critics across the country proclaimed Champlin a "show-stopping star in the making" and described her performance as "brilliant", "a triumph", and "a tour de force." Next on Broadway, Champlin played "Pirelli" (and the accordion, flute, and piano) in the groundbreaking 2005 revival of Sweeney Todd where the press called her both "hilarious" and "superb". She then joined the Broadway company of Billy Elliot as "Lesley" in 2009 and simultaneously self-produced her solo debut CD "Old Friends" which was voted "One of the Best Ten Albums of 2009" and was hailed by critics as "brilliant", "a masterpiece" and "breath taking".
Off Broadway, her performance as "Cora Flood" in the 2009 production of The Dark at The Top of the Stairs at The Transport Group (hailed by the NY press as "perfection", "brilliant" and "a privilege to watch"), earned her the prestigious OBIE award. DL went on to win the 2013 Drama Desk Award for her performance in Working, The Musical at the Prospect Theatre and the NYMF Award for "Outstanding Performance" for not one but three separate productions including as "Jane Austen" in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Other favorite Off-Broadway credits include "Hortensio" opposite Janet McTeer's "Petruchio" in the all-female Taming of the Shrew and "Audrey" opposite Oliver Platt's "Touchstone" in As You Like It (both at The Public Theatre's prestigious Shakespeare in the Park) and "Sophie" in Master Class opposite Edie Falco at the Broadhurst produced by the Metropolitan Opera.
Champlin also continues to perform her critically acclaimed one-woman show Finishing the Hat in NYC across the country while teaching master classes in acting at many prestigious colleges such as CMU, USC, and NYU. Also, of particular importance to Champlin is her fund raising for three of her favorite charitable organizations, Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF), BC-EFA and The Actors' Fund via her Cameo page (cameo.com/dlchamplin).
In addition to being an actress, Donna Lynne also works as a director, writer, producer, stand-up comedienne, pianist, composer, musical director, and choreographer. A free-lance writer for Comedy Central, she is currently working on a solo symphony concert, a play and two books; a humorous non-fiction book inspired by her (mis)adventures in the theatre and the other a 'how-to of comedy'.
Donna Lynne lives in New York City with her husband, actor Andrew Arrow and her son, Charlie.
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