Sample Classes
COLD READINGS
with Tina Frederickson
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $20
with Tina Frederickson
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $20
This one-day workshop will help improve your readings from the script at auditions. Based on Michael Shertleff's book Audition and its 12 guideposts, you'll learn how to analyze a side to make strong, specific, and active choices for its best reading. You'll also find these techniques and ideas helpful as you begin the rehearsal process.
ACTING FOR NON-ACTORS
FOUR-SESSION CLASS
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $110
FOUR-SESSION CLASS
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $110
This course is designed for those who have always wanted to try acting but never had the opportunity. It will explore the actors' craft through group exercises using the imagination, as well as individual character work using basic physical and psychological approaches. All participants will be working on two-person scenes from contemporary playwrights.
DIRECTING
A SPECIAL SEMINAR OF DIRECTORS
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $40
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $40
Veteran directors will discuss directing for the stage -- establishing a concept and preparing a script; auditioning and casting; production design and tech; working with actors, their characterizations and styles; and more. This popular workshop gives you the opportunity to ask questions and discuss the craft of directing.
PLAYING SHAKESPEARE
SONNETS: AN INTRODUCTION TO VERSE
with Doug Scholz-Carlson
ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $35
with Doug Scholz-Carlson
ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $35
This workshop will allow you to experience the power of some of the most speakable language ever written. By actively exploring sonnets, we will learn how you, the actor, can use verse and language to create a moving performance. Forget fear of Shakespeare and embrace the complexity of one of our greatest playwrights.
PLAYING SHAKESPEARE: SOLILOQUIES
with Doug Scholz-Carlson
THREE-SESSION CLASS
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $85
with Doug Scholz-Carlson
THREE-SESSION CLASS
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $85
For those who want more, we will build on our work on sonnets to explore action and character. Through active exercises, we will explore how to use Shakespeare's language and verse to bring a character life. Students will finish the class with an audition-ready, Shakespearean speech.
STAGE COMBAT
INTRODUCTION TO UNARMED STAGE COMBAT
ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
Date, time and cost to be announced
ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
Date, time and cost to be announced
Stage combat techniques underlie many seemingly simple actions onstage (e.g., falling to the floor, grappling with another actor) which need to be done correctly, with control and safety in mind. This seminar will introduce you to the basic techniques of slaps, punches, and other physicalities you'll encounter as an actor.
BASIC UNARMED STAGE COMBAT
THREE-SESSION CLASS
Date, time and cost to be announced
THREE-SESSION CLASS
Date, time and cost to be announced
This class will train you in techniques and methods from basic actions on stage to types of fighting that require more involved choreography. By the end of this class, you will have a fully choreographed piece, as well as a greater understanding of the illusion of violence onstage.
VOCAL PRODUCTION
COMMERCIAL VOICE-OVER ACTING
with Larry Russo
ONE-DAY SEMINAR
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $65
Maximum enrollment: 14 students
"But only a few select people get to do voice-overs." Not true. But what do they know that you don't? How much skill is expected before seeking voice over work? What kinds of skill? There is a unique charm to acting through an aural-only medium. Does it suit you? What goes into a credible demo? This seminar is a detailed overview of the craft and business of voice-overs in commercials, industrials, web-recordings, books on tape, animation. We'll discuss needs and goals of producers, and what it takes to work with them - regularly. Hear good, bad and mediocre demos - and what makes them that way. Includes individual assessment of your interpretative style from a commercial point of view.
ADVANCED VOCAL PRODUCTION FOR ACTORS
THREE-SESSION WORKSHOP
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $140
Maximum enrollment: 10 students. Come dressed for movement and fun!
Vocal Production: "Producing sound with the human vocal instrument, at maximum levels of efficiency. Typically refers to the body of technique used by both sung and spoken vocal artists." For trained actors: stage, screen, or voice-people, trying to make a living in the craft. But, this will be so much more useful for those who understand and have some experience at building a character. This practical, very physical three-day workshop teaches a systematic process to expand breath control, vocal range and power. Expect a detailed investigation of pitch and placement. With an ear toward building the skills of a character actor, technique for developing distinctly unique voices is explained. A normal human has at least hundreds of voices. Where are those critters in you? Expect a specific link between voice type and character type. Vocal sound is presented as an extension of character process and part of whole behavior - not just a body part.
VOICE
INTRODUCTION TO VOICE FUNDAMENTALS
with Cheryl Moore Brinkley
ONE-DAY WORKSHOP
Date and time to be announced ~ Cost: $75
Maximum enrollment: 14 students
Take the first steps toward learning to play that unique instrument you were born in. Explore the inner messages and social and cultural conditioning that may be undermining your confidence and keeping you from releasing your true vocal power. Gain a new awareness, identify your needs, warm up, open up, and give yourself permission to let yourself be clearly and fully heard.
VOICE FUNDAMENTALS
with Cheryl Moore Brinkley
FOUR-SESSION CLASS
Dates and times to be announced ~ Cost: $150
Maximum enrollment: 14 students
Want to learn how to really play that unique instrument you were born in? This is a totally fun, basic spoken voice class for performers, broadcasters, singers, presenters, trainers, teachers -- anyone who uses a phone or makes contact with other humans (i.e., YOU)! This class covers awareness and confidence, healthy voice production, projection, diction and articulation, flexibility, expression, and Standard American Pronunciation. Come and let it out! No previous training or experience required. NOTE: course materials must be purchased from the instructor at the first class for an additional amount.