DRAMA PROGRAM

Acting for Camera, Film, TV and Auditions
Skills and Techniques

Scene/Script/Auditions/on camera/with Certificate of Completion

Michael Caruana – Bongo Productions

Professional Actor, Teacher, Movie/TV/Casting
Agent Referral

	Semester 1		Semester 2		Semester 3
	Monday Beginner	Thursday Intermediate	Monday Beginner	Thursday Intermediate	Monday Beginner	Thursday Intermediate
4:30 – 6:00	8 to 10	8 to 10	8 to 10	8 to 10	8 to 10	8 to 10
6:00 – 7:30	11 to13	11 to13	11 to13	11 to13	11 to13	11 to13
7:30 – 9:00	14+	14+	14+	14+	14+	14+
The students will have a screening with industry agents at the end of Semester 3

Since 1998, Studio PAVAS has engaged Michael Caruana and Bongo Productions on many occasions, beginning in 1998, to present weekend workshops for teen coaching, acting and audition preparations.  The Studio is proud to again include Michael in our 2008-09 schedule.

Michael Caruana began Bongo Productions in 1996, coaching actors of all ages, privately, on set, and in classes and workshops, including the highly regarded KIDS ON CAMERA workshops for kids & teens and SUCCESSFUL AUDITIONS workshops for adults, and ON CAMERA SCENE STUDY for adults & teens, while continuously working as an actor and coach. He is in his sixth year as faculty at HUMBER COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED LEARNING - ACTING FOR FILM & TELEVISION AND THEATRE PROGRAMS, where he teaches ON CAMERA SKILLS & TECHNIQUES & AUDITIONING FOR FILM & TELEVISION.

Michael is in constant demand as an acting coach, on set, privately and in workshops and receives high praise from casting directors, agents, producers and actors alike. He also directs casting sessions for Powerhouse Casting, Gloria Mann Casting and Fade to Black Casting.
Michael explores screen acting technique and applies process oriented preparation to compelling film & TV scenes. Michael also focuses on auditioning successfully for movies, TV series and TV commercials.
Michael has been a working actor for over twenty-five years in the theatre, in Canadian & U.S. film & television, TV commercials, radio advertising, radio drama and animation voices. Michael’s film and television acting credits include: the Pawnbroker in THE NAKED LUNCH and Crown Attorney Shantz in THE SCALES OF JUSTICE both directed by David Cronenberg, THE SANTA CLAUSE with Tim Allen, OWNING MAHONEY with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, ELEVENTH HOUR, WILD CARD, DOC, QUEER AS FOLK , THE ASSOCIATES, BLUE MURDER, RELIC HUNTER, EARTH FINAL CONFLICT, WHERE SLEEPING DOGS LIE, ALL AMERICAN GIRL, DIRTY PICTURES, FOREVER KNIGHT, PALMER'S BONES , TRADERS,  FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH, KUNG FU, E.N.G., and STREET LEGAL.