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Dear Friends,

Three years have passed since the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre and the Burt Reynolds Museum moved from its home on Indiantown Road in Jupiter into its new location in Lake Park, Florida. We are enjoying our alliance with the people of Lake Park and are grateful for the support of the mayor and council. However, the dream of once again having a home of our own remains strong. To make our dream come true, we need you -- the many fans and friends of Burt Reynolds who recognize the contribution he has made to the entertainment industry over the past 55 years.

If you never had an opportunity to visit the Museum, allow me to paint you a picture: On a backdrop of scarlet and lit by crystal chandeliers, the Museum walls played host to signed photographs and posters of celebrities from the golden age of film to the present day. Glass cases displayed the hundreds of awards won by Burt Reynolds as well as props from his many famous movies, including Deliverance and Smokey and the Bandit. The main stage anchored it all with plays and concerts featuring many of Mr. Reynolds’ good friends and our own talented actors.

Even though the public has been denied the pleasure of seeing Mr. Reynolds’ collection for the past three years, they haven’t forgotten. Every day Managing Director Donna Carbone receives phone calls asking “when” we will again open our doors. Her answer is always “soon” but to make that happen, we need the support of all of Mr. Reynolds’ fans. Imagine helping to create a lasting legacy to a man who has provided years of enjoyment for you and your families – you can do that with a minimal donation.

The Burt Reynolds Institute continues to offer acting, improvisation, writing and filmmaking classes for both adults and children. Recent additions to the course curriculum include Creative Writing for the Author in all of Us, Improv-a-Prompter – a six week teleprompter proficiency course, Side by Side – an improvisation class in which adults and young actors work together, and Acting for the Camera. Unlike most schools, we are not about profit. With Burt Reynolds’ philosophy of “giving back” for the good fortune in his life, classes are low priced, making them affordable to everyone. Our goal is to help people keep their dreams alive and, maybe, even realize them with a little help from their friends at the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre.

Please help by donating to the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre. Send your checks to: Post Office Box 264, Jupiter, Florida 33458 For more information, call 561 743-9955. Thank you.

-Douglas Rill
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Burt Reynolds Institute for Film & Theatre

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MASTER ACTING CLASS with BURT REYNOLDS
By invitation only and based on completed application, which can be found on our website. For inquiries, please email info@burtreynoldsinstitute.org or call 561-743-9955

FUNDAMENTALS of ACTING for ADULTS
Sundays at 1PM
Whether you are a beginner, intermediate performer, or experienced actor, FoA will allow you to hone your craft in a welcoming and nurturing atmosphere. FoA is a scene study class in which students are expected to perform a ten-minute scene on stage each week. Roberts--who is a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA--has appeared in a variety of roles on stage, in film, and on network television. He teaches student how to choose the right material, how to interpret dialog so that the spoken word is true to what the author has written, character development, and body language. The class meets every Sunday at 1PM. The cost is $25/week. Call 561-743-9955 to RSVP

IMPROV
Call 561-743-9955 for location and time.
Todd Vittum brings his expertise to the classroom, teaching his students to "think fast" and increase their self-confidence. For beginning and intermediate students. Call 561-743-9955 to RSVP

SATURDAY SESSIONS (IMPROV)
Saturdays at 10AM
Saturday Sessions Improv is open to adults and youngsters. Taught by master improvisational artist Todd Vittum, budding and experienced comedians ranging in age will have an opportunity to improve their impromptu speaking and acting skills. Vittum has been teaching Improv for many years and is himself an experienced performer. He has designed innovative scenarios that make the imagination come alive. Under his excellent tutelage, laughter and learning go hand in hand. Saturday Session Improv: where anything can happen and usually does! Adults pay $25/week and kids pay $15/week. Call (561) 743-9955 to RSVP

CREATIVE WRITING for the AUTHOR in ALL of US
Thursdays at 6:30PM
Creative Writing for the Author in All of Us is a weekly offering for everyone with a story to tell. Whether you are writing a novel, short narrative, screenplay, stage play, or poem, if words are your oxygen, this is the class for you. Under the instruction of author/journalist Donna Carbone, the class utilizes a supportive "think tank" structure. Each week writers present their work, which is read and shared with the class. Critiques--both positive and negative--are offered as a means of moving a story from conception to completion. The class meets Thursday evenings at 6:30PM in the Lake Park Commission Chambers. Cost: $25/week. Call 561-743-9955 to RSVP

IMPROV-A-PROMPTER: 100% TOTALLY INTERACTIVE TELEPROMPTER CLASS
Dates TBA. Anyone who wants to sign up for this class should contact Donna at briftfinancedirector@comcast.net or call 561-743-9955 now! Class size is limited so students must RSVP ASAP.
Be prepared to laugh and learn. Improv-a-Prompter is a six (6) week course taught by Patty Serrano. Cost: $150* Learn how to be the perfect pitch person/spokesperson using professional techniques and insider secrets. Become a pro at cold reads, walk and talk, working with a partner, making boring products interesting, working the camera, allowing your body to talk for you and maintaining eye contact. Master on set etiquette and learn how to pack a survival bag and why you need one. Students will not only work with prepared scripts, they will have an opportunity to write a 60-second commercial of their own. Sing a jingle! Dance a jig! Find out how to make everything from murder to mayhem to monkey business sound exciting. Look and feel like a pro! Build self confidence so that the unexpected becomes the ordinary. Call 561-743-9955 to RSVP *Payment in full--cash/check/credit card--due by first night of class.

TELEPROMPTER: A TOOL for the BUSINESS PROFESSIONAL
Call 561-743-9955 for date/time/info.
Two hour, one-on-one course. Our teleprompter proficiency course provides an opportunity to learn and grow comfortable with one of the most helpful tools used by business professionals. For the corporate executive, knowing how to use a teleprompter can enhance presentation skills and speed the climb up the ladder of success. Even those who have already successfully faced an audience will gain greater confidence from mastering this skill. Taught by Patty Serrano--owner of Little Panther Prompting--who has more than twenty years experience in film and television. Call 561-743-9955 for date/time/info.

Please note: prior registration and RSVP are required for all classes, seminars, and workshops--as some have limited enrollment. Class times/locations subject to change. For information and registration, please contact Donna Carbone at 561-743-9955 or email info@burtreynoldsinstitute.org to RSVP now.

Burt Reynolds Institute classes and seminars are held at Lake Park Town Hall (Mirror Ballroom), 535 Park Avenue, Lake Park, FL 33403. Please note, this is not the mailing address. The mailing address is: PO Box 264, Jupiter, FL 33458

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BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND: THE BURT REYNOLDS INSTITUTE IMPROV PLAYERS IN
"GOBBLE GOBBLE HEY! TURDUCKEN IMPROV SHOW (A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING!)" 11/15
THANKSGIVING IMPROV SHOW “STUFFED” WITH LAUGHTER FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

​On Saturday, November 15, at 7:30PM, the Lake Park Mirror Ballroom will host a fun, family night of improvisation presented by the wholesome and hilarious Burt Reynolds Institute Improv Players. The evening’s offering will be unique in that it brings together both adult and young actors performing side by side in an unscripted and always unexpected two hours of laughs and guffaws.

Under the direction of master improvisational artist Todd Vittum, budding and experienced improvisational artists from child to childlike will have the audience rolling in the aisles. The show comes with only one warning: laughing is mandatory!

Vittum has been teaching improv for many years and is himself an experienced performer. He has designed innovative scenarios that make the imagination come alive and his no scripts–no rules approach to training is guaranteed to bring a look of surprise and pleasure to the faces of ticket holders. The spontaneity of response--especially when children are involved--is the stuff of legend.

In an interview about his training techniques, Vittum said, “Most people think improv is only about being funny. It isn’t. However with my troupe, the humor comes from the honesty of the scene and funny just happens!”

The good times start at 7:30PM and don’t end until the laughter dies away. Guests are encouraged to bring a prop for use by the performers. Props will be returned at the end of the evening. Tickets are $20. Reserve with your credit card by calling 561-743-9955 or pay at the door by cash or check only. Come early, seating is limited. Doors open at 6:45PM.

Photo credit: Loren Otake

HELP FIGHT HUNGER LOCALLY!

The Lighthouse ArtCenter is pleased to be collaborating with Empty Bowls, an international, grassroots effort to fight hunger locally. Local artists and ArtCenter members will make 1,000 bowls at our ceramics studio at the School of Art in the coming months to donate to the cause.

During the two-day event in Palm Beach and West Palm Beach on February 13 and 14, five- star restaurants and chefs will create signature soups, and local bakers will provide rustic breads. Guests donate $25, select an artisan bowl, share in a simple meal of bread and soup and keep their empty bowls as a powerful reminder of all of the bowls that remain empty in Palm Beach County. 100% of the proceeds benefit the Palm Beach County Food Bank.

You are invited to create ceramic bowls with us to donate. (You don't need to know how to throw on the wheel; pinch pots and coil built are great, too, and we will show you how!) Here's how you can help:

• Join a FREE ceramics workshop to create bowls to donate! If you don’t know how, we’ll teach you the basics of bowl making. Bring your friends and coworkers. Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m. and Saturdays 1- 4 p.m. Call the School of Art to sign up!
• The Lighthouse ArtCenter, in partnership with Bethesda-By-The-Sea Church, will be donating 1,000 bowls to the Empty Bowls events on February 13 and 14, 2015... Help us make bowls!
• Experienced ceramic artists may sign up for studio time at the Lighthouse ArtCenter School of Art, or simply drop off completed bowls.
• There will be a professional artists’ display table at the events, promoting select artists’ work.

For more information, please email: Cynthia@LighthouseArts.org. All proceeds will benefit the Palm Beach County Food Bank.

SPECIAL GUEST AT THE BURT REYNOLDS INSTITUTE

Special guest Pepi Widenhouse, who co-starred in Angel Baby with Burt Reynolds, came to visit the Master Class last month. As you may know, Angel Baby was Burt Reynolds' motion picture debut. He played the role of Hoke Adams. Photo credit: Pete Marzilli

IN OTHER NEWS...

Gator and White Lightning are coming out on Blue Ray on November 11. Make sure to get your copy!

BURT REYNOLDS INSTITUTE ACTORS NEEDED FOR STAGED READINGS

Creative Writing for the Author in All of Us students have been enjoying the talents of the Burt Reynolds Institute actors during the twice-a-month staged readings. Scripts under development are presented in staged reading format so that writers can hear how their words will sound when delivered on film. This allows for questions and feedback from the actors which benefit the writers during the editing process. Both actors and writers have been enjoying their time together and have gained a new respect for the effort it takes to bring a script from conception to completion. Actors wishing to participate in these readings should contact Donna at info@burtreynoldsinstitute.org or by calling 561-743-9955.

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Congratulations to Denise Roman Brodie, the newest member of Mr. Reynold's Master Acting class!

Denise masterfully portrayed the role of 'Marlene' in Matt Williams' Between Daylight and Boonville, opposite scene partner and Master Actor Karen Chimato.

Welcome to class, Denise!

Photo credit: Pete Marzilli

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See Amy Hoerler and Douglas Rill in the Cuartas Brothers film, Twelve Traditions, which will be screening at Indiefilmclub on November 5 at O Cinema Wynwood (90 NW 29th St, Miami, FL 33127)

Maureen Anderson recently performed a reading of Edgar Allan Poe's work Spirits of the Dead at the Lake Worth Library. The event featured Cynthia Morrison's latest release of her anthology, The Passion of Poe.

The short film, A World Of Pleasure, directed by Guisela Moro and starring Tina Pfeiffer, Steven Mairano, and David Ausem, will be showing at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival on November 11 at 3PM (part of a block of films titled "You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do").

Mindy Acevedo, Alan Myles Heyman, and Rhonda Stearns star in Ann Deborah Fishman's short film, Dinosaur.

Amy Hoerler has recently been cast in two films: George Guck's full-length feature romantic comedy Common Interest and Peter Evans’ upcoming film about the Holocaust, Day Of Judgement. Three other films are in the works, but the actress can't reveal anything about those projects yet. Keep up with Amy at www.amyhoerler.com

Fundamentals of Acting student Miles Kammerman secured the role of 'Murray the Cop' in the Lake Worth Playhouse presentation of The Odd Couple. The dates for the show are November 22-23 & November 28, 29, 30. The Lake Worth Playhouse is located at 713 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth, FL

Avery Sommers performs November 1 and 29, and December 6, at The Royal Room Cabaret at The Colony Palm Beach. Click here for more information: https://thecolonypalmbeach.com/event/averysommers

Beverly Blanchette recently participated and performed in the Naked Stage 24-Hour Theatre Project at Palm Beach Dramaworks.

Are you a current or former student of the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film & Theatre or the Burt Reynolds Institute for Theatre Training? If so, we would love to hear from you! Simply write a one to two paragraph blurb and drop us an email at BRIFTmultimedia@gmail.com before the 25th of each month (subject line: "In The Spotlight") and let us know what projects you are working on or have completed. PLEASE, NO EXTRA WORK!

SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE THE 25TH OF EACH MONTH--no exceptions. We look forward to hearing about--and celebrating--your success!

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• Learn How to Act With Burt Reynolds
• Burt Reynolds walks the red carpet in South Mississippi
• Who was that blonde on Burt Reynolds' arm in South Mississippi?

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Douglas Rill ... Chairman of the Board of Directors
Todd Vittum ... Executive Director
Donna Carbone ... Managing Director/Writer
Amy Schulz ... Editor/Multimedia Coordinator

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The Burt Reynolds Institute for Film & Theatre is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that is committed to educating and involving the community and artists in all aspects of film, television, theater, live performances, film festivals, and exhibitions, as well as preserving Mr. Reynolds' memorabilia and the history of the film industry.

Burt Reynolds Institute for Film & Theatre
PO Box 264
Jupiter, FL 33458
561-743-9955 | info@burtreynoldsinstitute.org