OXNARD — Teatro de las Américas reports that the Drama Department is returning to Oxnard College.
We are happy to support the return to Oxnard College of the Drama Department.
Sign up for the two courses: THTR R111 – Introduction to Theater and THTR R151 — Acting I.
The courses are scheduled to meet Tuesdays and Thursdays in the late afternoon and early evening.
Both courses will be taught by the college’s new adjunct Theatre Arts instructor, Natasha Lee Martin, who brings many years of acting, directing and producing experience to Oxnard College.
Natasha Lee Martin was born in Providence, RI and began her career at the age of 5 when she was cast in a radio play for WSAR Radio called “The Man in the Snow”. She has since has appeared in television and film roles on FOX, TLC, DISNEY, NIPPON TV JAPAN and many stages throughout Philadelphia, NYC, Los Angeles and across the USA. Natasha holds an MFA in Acting Pedagogy from VCU and trained at the Actor’s Studio Program in New York City where she trained extensively in Stanislavski, Strasberg (Moscow Art Theater) Kazan, Hagen and Meisner and at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
She has performed at NYC theaters such as JACK, Brooklyn, Theater Lab, The Gene Frankel Theater, Raandesk Gallery, Roy Arias Theater, Theatre 54, Bryant Park and Union Square to thousands. She has also been awarded Faculty Excellence in Teaching and several grants to fund her dramatic writing and performance work. In 2014, she was awarded the prestigious Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Center for the Performing Arts) Innovation Grant for the solo show she wrote, performed and directed, “Confessions of a Synesthetic Sailor; An Interactive Journey Through High Seas”.
Here is a link to the fall schedule page: https://ssb.vcccd.edu/prod/pw_pub_sched.p_listthislist