Workshop to offer on-camera acting training in Tiverton

Kids from ages 9 to 19 are invited to get some on-camera acting training with a casting professional. The three-hour intensive workshop is set to benefit stage actors with little or no experience in front of the camera."I'm so happy we can do this for young people," Gloria Crist said. Crist has been running Tiverton High School's theater department for the past four years. Creating a driving theater arts program for Crist means bringing in guest artists, directors and engineers. Having her friend Anne Mulhall coach the kids was just the way she wanted to kick off the fall.

Mulhall is head of LDI casting in Warwick, R.I. She has cast "Moonrise Kingdom," "27 Dresses," and is currently working on the "The Makeover" for Hallmark in Boston. Mulhall said she's looking forward to this workshop as much as Crist."We always end up discovering somebody," Mulhall said,A Simplified Guide to Buying a Digital Camera, having cast Crist's students before. "Not to make them a star, but to use them for work that I wouldn't have found otherwise."

Mulhall describes Rhode Island as "a little world that people don't leave, so I have to go to them." She plans to teach the workshop participants the difference between stage acting and acting for the camera."It's less broad. In theater you have to speak to the last row. On camera you speak to the person next to you," Mulhall said.She will actively show them what works and what doesn't work," Crist said. "Anne is very good working with theater actors and doing sudden changes."