AEA: Equity
I am a recent M.F.A graduate from the University of Louisville African American Theatre Arts programs. I am originally from Fayetteville, NC, and currently live in Sandy Springs, Georgia. I strive to represent my true black experience on the stage and encourage others to do the same to show a community and not a cultural mask to be "seen."
Height: 6 ft 1
Hair Color: Black
Eyes Color: Brown
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lamar-alonzo-hardy-58b487121
About Me
Educational Experience
University of Louisville MFA Theatre Arts, African American Theatre Programs, 2022
Degree: Master of Fine Arts, African-American Theatre Certificate
Thesis: Contemporary Blackface Theatre: Exploring Split Second From An Authentic Black Lens to Combat White Stereotypes
Winston-Salem State University, 2019
Degree: Mass Communications, minor Dramatic Arts
Training
Acting/Voice/Alexander Technique/Dialect Training- Professor Rachel Carter.
Yoga/Movement/Grotowski/Laban/Intimacy-Dr. Ari Calvano.
Ballet/Modern Dance/Devising-Professor Sidney Monroe Williams.
Shakespeare-Jennifer Pennington.
Meisner/Uta Hagen/Stella Adler- Dr. Baron Kelly.
Teaching Pedagogy- Professor Rachel Carter
Teaching Artist
Directing
Afromemory, Assistant Director, Nov 2021-Feb2022
Focused on giving actors direction toward warm-ups and acting critiques for their performance.
The Ultimate Field Trip, KCACTF REGION IV, Feb 2019-Feb 2019
Gave actors direction to perform a staged reading before the 10-minute play festival at KCACTF Region IV.
Teaching
Department of Theatre Arts, University of Louisville
Graduate Instructor of Record, 2020-2022
Class Taught: Intro to Acting as Communication
Course Taught to: Undergraduates
Description:
Prepared and taught undergraduates a fundamental course for contemporary acting.
Utilized theatre games, warm-ups, group projects, monologues, scene work, and job interview style situations.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2019-2020
Assistant to: Geoffrey Nelson
Course: Enjoyment of Theatre
Class Taught to Undergraduates
Description: Recorded grades, and attendance, and helped grade tests, quizzes and papers.
Actors Theatre of Louisville, Oct 2021-Oct 2021
Taught children and teens the basics of acting for three weeks.
Age Group:13-17
Related Theatre Teaching Experience
Kentucky Shakespeare Summer Camp, Jun 2021-Jul 2021
Coaching
Broadway Lessons
Jan 1st-2023- Present. Monday-Sunday Online Classes
I teach beginning actors or actors who are in business text analysis, finding representation, booking jobs, character movement, monologues, and one-one online.
Actors Center for Training, May 2021-Sep 2021
Coached children, teens, and adults in the fundamentals of acting, scene work, and other acting techniques.
Taught three different groups of children about the basics of Shakespeare performance and directed them in Romeo and Juliet.
Age Group: 7-10
StageOne Theatre Summer Camp, Jul 2020-Jul 2020
Taught one age group of children how to create short films, commercials, and games. In the second group, I taught basic performance through Marvel characters.
Age Group: 7-11
Art Series Camp, Jul 2019-Jul 2019
Taught teenagers how to create YouTube channels and short films.
Age Group: 12-15