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Master Acting Classes for Adults

Intermediate Classes
Intermediate Master Acting Classes provide students with the opportunity to build upon existing acting and performance skills. Students enrolled in these classes will delve deeper into scene study and character building, working individually on monologues or with partners on selected scenes. Additionally, students will enhance their use of voice and movement while acquiring new skills to add to their “actor’s toolbox.” These classes are designed for students with some acting experience: either the successful completion of an introductory Shakespeare Theatre Company Master Acting Class or an equivalent course elsewhere.

Image, Breath and Being: Shakespeare and Fitzmaurice Voicework

Instructor: Elizabeth Forte Alman
Mondays and Tuesdays, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
July 21 – August 12 (8 sesssions)
Tuition: $325
Fitzmaurice Voicework is taught at many of the leading theatre training programs in the United States. It explores the dynamics between body, breath, voice, the imagination, language and presence. Since breath and voice lie at the intersection of the material and the non-material, this work can also assist in creative, intellectual and spiritual growth. Using Fitzmaurice Voicework when studying the plays of William Shakespeare develops the performers' all-important visceral connection to the text. In this class students will explore the two-pronged approach of Fitzmaurice Voicework—"Destructuring" and "Restructuring"—while working on two (memorized) monologues from Shakespeare's cannon. Students should have two Shakespeare monologues approximately 20 verse lines in length memorized before the first day of class.

Shakespeare Monologue Workshop
Instructors: Steven Scott Mazzola, Andrew Long, David Muse
Mondays and Tuesdays, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Session #1: July 21 - July 22 with Andrew Long
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Session #2: July 28- July 29 with Steven Scott Mazzola
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Session #3: August 4 - 5 with David Muse
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If you wish to register for multiple sessions, please contact the Education Department at 202.547.5688.

With only two minutes to leave your stamp, your audition monologue is the actor’s calling card and one of the most important elements in the actor’s toolbox. Work with three of the D.C. area’s most gifted theatre directors and actors to gain insight and skills to help nail that next role! Students should come to the first class prepared with two classical monologues.

Tuition for Shakespeare Monologue Workshops:
One session: $200
Two sessions: $300
All three sessions: $400 (a 33% savings of $200!)