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Leeward Community College

Leeward Community College will offer a new course for fall 2015, Directing Actors for the Studio. The course will provide an in-depth exploration of the creative capabilities (technical, logistical, aesthetic) of directing and producing narrative-based studio production work in a multiple camera television studio environment.

Students will rotate through every production position in the studio from cameras, to sound mixing and booming, floor managing, lighting and art direction. Throughout the studio rotation, each student will serve as the director working with the script and will also serve as actors within the class to tell a story.

The 3 credit course is cross-listed as DMED 197, THEA 197, TVPR 197 and will be offered on Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m.–4:15 p.m.

strong>Ron Umehira, dean of career and technical education via email or at (808) 455-0321.

About the instructor

Gary Shimokawa

Course instructor Gary Shimokawa is an associate professor of the arts from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Kanbar Institute of Film and Television. He has also worked at Columbia University, University of Southern California–School of Cinematic Arts and Loyola Marymount University.

Shimokawa is a Directors Guild of America award winner and Emmy nominated director for his work in teleivsion.

Shimokawa brings more than three decades of industry experience into the classroom, with credentials that include work on All in the Family, Golden Girls, Sesame Street, Saved by the Bell, Laverne and Shirley, Good Times, Welcome Back Kotter and more.

—By Kathleen Cabral

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