Dennis is proud to announce that the book Objectives, Obstacles and Tactics in Practice, edited by Valerie Clayman Pye and Hilary Haft Bucs, which features his chapter "Money in Your Pocket: Meisner, Objectives, and the First Six Lines" is now available, published by Routledge. You can purchase a copy of the book directly on Amazon.

Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice is the first book that compiles practical approaches of the best practices from a range of practitioners on the subject of working with Stanislavski’s "objectives," "obstacles," and "tactics."

The book offers instructors and directors a variety of tools from leading acting teachers, who bring their own individual perspectives to the challenge of working with Stanislavski’s principles for today’s actors, in one volume. Each essay addresses its own theoretical and practical approach and offers concrete instructions for implementing new explorations both in the classroom and in the rehearsal studio.

In "Money in your Pocket", Dennis takes  Meisner’s famous Repetition exercise further, connectingimprovisation to the first six lines of scene work. By having students approach their scene as “an improvisation with text,” he takes the pressure off the student perfecting the character objective, and focuses on play, which in this case is throwing “snowballs.” Schebetta explores William Esper’s perspective, “a good objective is like money in your pocket,” which means “objectives are not something you can act … but actions are the specific building blocks of behavior upon which you achieve (or don’t achieve) your objective.”

Dennis is proud to announce that his short romantic comedy My Date with Adam is an official selection for the weekly screening for New Filmmakers in New York City as part of their Winter 2015 programming.

My Date with Adam will be part of a special Valentine's Day themed screening on Wednesday, February 11 at 7:00 pm at Anthology. More details can be found on their website or by reading their Quarterly..

Dennis is proud to announce that his short romantic comedy My Date with Adam is an official selection of New Filmmakers LA and will screen in Downtown LA on September 20th as part of their programming.

My Date with Adam will be screening at 4:45 pm at The AT&T Center, on September 20th, following a pre-screening reception at 4:00 pm. Dennis will be in attendance for the screening and is looking forward to seeing the movie with a west coast audience!

This months program at NewFilmmakers LA includes 5 film programs comprised of a feature documentary, 15 short films and an advance screening of the Columbia Pictures feature film THE EQUALIZER starring Denzel Washington.

Dennis's short film MY DATE WITH ADAM is an official selection of the 2014 Eichelberger FilmDayton Festival in Dayton, OH and will screen at the end of August in the U.S. shorts block.

For more information and tickets, please click here.

Dennis's short film MY DATE WITH ADAM is an official selection of the LandLocked Film Festival in Iowa City, Iowa in August. 

Based in Iowa City, the festival features 59 films screening over four days from August 21-24.  

Read the news and see the full lineup here.

Dennis is excited to announce that his short film MY DATE WITH ADAM is the 2014 Winner for Best Comedy Short Film for the High Desert International Film Festival.

The screening in May was the Nevada premiere (Dennis' home state).  The film will next been seen in the Film Market at the 2014 Palm Springs International Shortsfest in June.

Stay tuned for more screenings scheduled for the future!

Dennis is proud to announce that beginning in the fall of 2014, he will be joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh as Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts.

His new role will include being Head of the MFA Pedagogy Performance program, teaching acting and other performance classes, as well as directing productions on the Pitt Stages main stage.  

He is scheduled to direct DOG IN THE MANGER by Lope de Vega for the 2014-2015 season.

Dennis is pleased to announce that his short film MY DATE WITH ADAM is an official selection of Sci-Fi London, the 14th London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film! This will be the film's international and U.K. premiere!

The rom-com with a sci-fi twist will be screening at the festival on Sunday, April 27th.

For more information about the festival, please check out their website.

Dennis is proud to announce that his short film MY DATE WITH ADAM will have a screening in his home state of Nevada.

The short comedic film is an official selection of the High Desert International Film Festival and will have a screening in May.  The High Desert Fest is in Pahrump, just outside Las Vegas.

For more information, check the High Desert Fest website.