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# Community briefs and short items
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/this-heaven-can-definitely-wait/
- Published: 2005-09-16T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:47:42.000Z
- Author: Dan Dunn
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica Airport, #archive-import

Backer’s master class — “The Psychology of Performance in Acting and Musical Theatre” — will be held at 7 p.m. in the Hangar Stage, located at SMC’s Airport Campus, 2800 Airport Ave., Santa Monica. The master classes are free and open to the public, and seating is on a first-arrival basis.

Backer, a psychologist who specializes in working with creative people, has led seminars and workshops for performing artists at the Screen Actors Guild-AFI Conservatory, for dancers at Jacob’s Pillow, and for writers with Ray Bradbury and Michael Crichton. A member of the clinical faculty at UCLA Medical School and the Board of Directors of the Musical Theatre Guild, he will be executive producing — with ASCAP’s Michael Kerker — the Guild’s 10th Anniversary Gala in November.

The remaining master classes for the fall semester will be “The Joy of Acting,” led by Obba Babatundé, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, and “The Art & Business of Voiceovers,” led by actor and vocalist Gregg Marx.

The series is co-sponsored by the SMC Associates, a private organization that funds speakers and special programs on campus. For information, call (310) 434- 4393.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 16, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091605.pdf?ref=smdp.com)