Theater Master Class: Acting for the Camera
Thursday, April 24, 20081:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Maslansky Studio / Lenfest Basement
Lenfest Hall
Elaine Bromka has been a professional actress for over 30 years. She has appeared in such films as Uncle Buck and Without a Trace. She has also been seen in such notable televisions shows as: ER, The Sopranos, Providence, Dharma & Greg, LA Law, Law and Order, Sex & the City, Will & Grace, Days of our Lives, the Emmy Award-winning Playing for Time with Vanessa Redgrave and Catch a Rainbow, for which Bromka won an Emmy.
She has also done notable work on Broadway in The Rose Tattoo, I'm Not Rappaport, and Macbeth as well as off-Broadway in Cloud 9 at the Lucille Lortel, the Roundabout's Inadmissible Evidence with Nicol Williamson, the world premiere of Michael Weller's Split at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Mamet's NYC premiere of Almost Home and Candide with the National Theatre of the Deaf. She has played leads at regional theaters across the country, including Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, ACT/Seattle, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Shakespeare and Company, McCarter Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, George Street Playhouse, and the Folger Theatre Group, in roles ranging from Much Ado's Beatrice to Shirley Valentine. She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Actors Studio. The impetus for Tea for Three: Lady Bird, Pat and Betty came from her being cast opposite Rich Little in The Presidents. Impersonating the last eight First Ladies, she starred in that show with Little across the country and for PBS.
A member of the Actors Studio and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith College, she went on to get her MAT from Smith, and returned this fall as a faculty member, teaching "Acting for the Media" there. As a guest artist, Bromka has taught "Acting for the Camera" at more than twenty-five colleges and prep schools across the country.
