Master Acting Classes for Teens and Young People
Master Acting Classes for Young People and Teens
(Ages 9 – 17)
 Master
Acting Classes for Young People and Teens are a great way to gain theatre
experience in a fun, supportive environment. Make new friends and gain
invaluable acting skills while expanding your knowledge of theatre.
All Young People and Teens classes run a total of 8 sessions.
Tuition for all Young People and Teens classes is $325.
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Blood and the Bard: Shakespeare’s Living World (ages
13 – 17)
Instructor: Casey Kaleba
Spring session: Saturdays, March 28 – May 16 from 10 a.m. – 12
p.m.
Shakespeare's audience expected their theatre to be immediate, bloody
and exciting. This course will explore Elizabethan performance from
the audience's point of view: what did they expect to see on stage?
Through a study of Shakespeare's acting style, special blood effects,
stock stage combat and audience interaction, students will learn about
Elizabethan entertainment from the audience's perspective and discover
how plays such as King Lear, Titus Andronicus and Macbeth actually
worked on the Shakespearean stage.
Improvisational Theatre (ages 9 - 12)
Instructor: Dat Ngo
Winter session: Saturdays, January 10 – March 7 from 10 a.m. – 12
p.m. (no class February 14)
This workshop helps young actors be better prepared for spontaneous
invention in auditions, rehearsals and performances. Beginning with
trust and team-building activities, the training focuses on cultivating
concentration and imagination, while utilizing fundamental techniques
to create motivated characters and dynamic scenes using what is available
on the spot.
Introduction to Shakespeare
Instructor: Lorraine Ressegger
Fall session: (ages 13 – 17) Saturdays, September 6 – November
1 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (no class October 11)
Winter session: (ages 9 – 12) Saturdays, January 10 – March
7 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (no class February 14)
Shakespeare provides young actors with amazing opportunities to learn
and grow while playing some of the greatest comedies and dramas ever
written. This course will crack open the mysteries of playing Shakespeare,
giving students the basic tools to understand and play this great work
in an active, immediate way.
Introduction to Theatre (ages 9 – 12)
Instructor: Dat Ngo
Fall session: Saturdays, September 6 – November 15 from 1 p.m. – 3
p.m. (no class October 11)
For students who have always wanted to study and practice theatre but
never had the time or opportunity, this class provides a foundation
from which students can pursue further development and exploration.
Participants will explore the basics of improvisation, text analysis,
playwriting and performance, culminating in a showcase performance
of both selected texts and original work.
Shakespeare’s Bad Boys and Vixens (ages 9 – 12)
Instructor: Lorraine Ressegger
Spring session: Saturdays, March 28 – May 16 from 10 a.m. – 12
p.m.
From Mercutio to Lady MacBeth to Iago, Shakespeare has given us some
of the most fun, diabolical and sometimes just plain rotten characters
to play. In this class, appropriate for beginning and returning students,
we will play with the villains and manipulators in Shakespeare through
both scenes and monologues. Students will develop skills in basic acting,
character creation and Shakespearean text. Prior wickedness not required.
Shakespeare Scene Study (ages 13 – 17)
Instructor: Audra Polk
Winter session: Saturdays, January 10 – March 7 from 1 p.m. – 3
p.m. (no class February 14)
This course will build on the basic skills gained in Introduction to
Shakespeare. Students will further explore how to bring Shakespeare
to life in performance, deepening their understanding of the text and
how Shakespeare’s language inspires an actor’s creativity
through specificity and direction. Through scene work and performance,
students will learn to play Shakespeare “moment to moment” and
to create subtle, full-bodied and fully realized human beings through
Shakespeare’s text.
Stage Combat: Quarterstaff (ages 13 – 17)
Instructor: Casey Kaleba
Fall session: Saturdays, September 6 – November 1 from 10 a.m. – 12
p.m. (no class October 11)
Used by characters as diverse as Robin Hood and the Monkey King, pole
arms are versatile and common weapons. Through games, exercises and
historical investigation, this class will explore the uses of the staff
on stage and the many possibilities of the "clubs, bills and partisans" Shakespeare
frequently placed on his stage.
Stage Combat: Swashbuckling (ages 13 – 17)
Instructor: Casey Kaleba
Winter session: January 10 – March 7 from 10 a.m. – 12
p.m. (no class February 14)
Very popular in Shakespeare's time, the rapier was not only a weapon
but also an essential part of a gentleman's attire. In this class we
will explore the history of the rapier and its application on the stage.
We will begin with the basics of swordplay, emphasizing safety and
technique, and end with a choreographed duel. |