ADULT ONLINE CLASSES
Whether you’re just getting your start or are a seasoned veteran of the stage, our selection of online classes and workshops will help you gain confidence in the crafts of acting, auditioning, improv and more.
OPERATING OPERATIVES: EXPLORING TEXT
Fine tune your speech! An introductory over-view of operative speech in prose and poetry. Simple, fast, effective guide to making sense of any text to activate meaning and impact. Interactive tools to heighten and increase communication, on-stage and off.
Excellent workshop for fine-tuning your acting and voice over craft.
All levels welcome.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Wed • Jun 10 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Sabin Epstein
VIDEO AUDITIONS
Engaging video auditions are more vital now than ever! Work with the Denver Center’s own casting director, Grady Soapes, to strengthen your video submissions and online auditions. Learn techniques to submit the best possible audition and get your submission the notice it deserves. Excellent opportunity to hone your audition skills.
All levels welcome.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Thu • Jun 11 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Grady Soapes
ADVANCED VOICE OVER: CHARACTER VOICES
Get in character and dive into perhaps the most fun area of voice over. Learn how to use your voice, body, facial expressions and imagination to create characters you didn’t know you had in you! Great opportunity to try your hand at video gaming scripts!
Previous Voice Over classes/experience recommended.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Mon • Jun 15 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Mare Trevathan
CRAFT OF ACTING: CHARACTER
Excited to continue exploring acting? Interested in diving into acting for the first time. This workshop will examine techniques of creating strong characters- one the key foundations of acting technique. Gain the tools to delve into characterization and become an active part in the journey of the play as a whole. Excellent workshop for those students who have completed Intro to Acting or the Craft of Acting.
All levels welcome.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Tue • Jun 16 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Allison Watrous
SHAKESPEARE’S TEXT
Get ready to tackle your next Shakespeare play or audition. Focus on immediate techniques to break open his text and fearlessly explore verse. This class focus on soliloquy and monologue work. Learn from one of Colorado’s premier Shakespearean actors as you engage with and activate the text of The Bard.
Previous scene study experience recommended.
2 sessions • $100 • 2 hr class time
Sat • Jun 20 & 27 • 10am – 12pm • Geoffrey Kent
INTRO TO COMMERCIAL VOICE OVER
Is your voice your favorite asset? Step up to the mic and learn the basics of the radio and television voice over industry. Analyze and activate commercial copy, learn to take direction and increase your versatility.
All levels welcome.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Mon • Jun 22 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Tia Marlier
(IN)FORMED: DURANG AND CHEKHOV
In this two-session class, you will discover ways to read and engage with Christopher Durang’s comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike as well as approaching the two Chekhov plays that inform Durang’s work: Uncle Vanya and The Seagull. Modeled to mirror the tablework process, this session will expand tablework to include specific acting prompts that compliment your readings, insights, and guided conversations with other class members. Outside preparation is required.
Previous enrollment in Intro to Acting, Scene Study or acting experience recommended.
2 sessions • $100 • 2 hr class time
Tue, Jun 23 & Thu, Jun 25 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski
THE SHAPE OF THOUGHT
Learn how to shape, structure and unlock the language of plays and dramatic text. This class will examine the shape of thought in speeches from Shakespeare, Molière, Shaw, Pinter, Williams and Pinter. We’ll focus on tools, drills and experimenting with language as the conduit to action. Get ready to take your approach to text to new heights! Excellent for stage and voice over actors.
All levels welcome.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Mon • Jun 29 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Sabin Epstein
PHYSICAL VIEWPOINTS WORKOUT
Explore Anne Bogart’s physical Viewpoints. The Viewpoints, simply, describe movement through time and space and are an excellent way for collaborators to share a common language and for individual performers to build a specific, physical characterizations. In this class we’ll investigate the Viewpoints’ power both to strengthen relationship between performers and to give an individual performer the tools to develop and embody character with precision and presence.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Tue • Jun 30 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Anne Penner
DISCOVERING MONOLOGUES
It can be very challenging to pinpoint the perfect pieces to master your next audition. Take the fear out of audition preparation and pick the parts that show your full range of ability while speaking to who you are as an actor. This class will provide the tools and resources to find great audition pieces from contemporary text and help you mine the script to unlock the character. You’ll walk away with go-to monologues while also discovering dynamic plays and playwrights.
Previous acting experience recommended.
2 sessions • $100 • 2 hr class time
Tue • Jul 7 & 14 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Allison Watrous
MASTER CLASS SCENE STUDY: CLAWS OUT!
Activate the vicious, unstoppable, irredeemable, unequivocal, passionate, desperate, desolate, unflinching, blindingly in-your-face moments of humanity. Dive into the famous scenes of Mamet, Albee, Hellman and more without being polite or nice—just human.
Instructor approval required – please email education@dcpa.org.
3 sessions • $150 • 2 hr class time
Wed • Jul 8, 15 & 22 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Sabin Epstein
CALLBACK TECHNIQUE
Your first audition was as success and you landed a callback! Now what? This class will cover all the skills needed to prepare your sides, engage with the creative team, navigate adjustments and develop character. Learn how to conquer the callback and book the role. Don’t miss this opportunity to work with DCPA’s own casting director, Grady Soapes.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Thu • Jul 16 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Grady Soapes
IMPROV: CONNECTING IN THE UNKNOWN
Find capacity to connect! Tap into play and spontaneity even during this illusive time of unknowns. Examine Viola Spolin’s concept of a Direct Experience and explore moment-to-moment connection in your improv and life!
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Tue • Jul 21 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Kerstin Caldwell
CRAFT OF ACTING: SCENE ANALYSIS
Deepen your acting technique through skill-building exercises while learning core elements of scene analysis using material by world-class playwrights. Gain the tools to understand the complexities of the scene and activate moment-to-moment work. Excellent workshop for those students who have completed Intro to Acting or the Craft of Acting or those interested in acting for the first time!
All levels welcome.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Thu • Jul 23 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Allison Watrous
ADVANCED VOICE OVER: AUDIO BOOKS
The audiobook market is thriving and it’s the perfect time to increase your versatility. Learn the tricks of the trade from a narrator of over 650 audiobooks. This workshop will focus on the tools and fundamentals of narrating fiction.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Tue • Jul 28 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Mare Trevathan
PLAYWRITING LAB: FINDING CHARACTER THROUGH DIALOGUE
Designed for the work of beginning and ongoing playwrights, this workshop will focus on developing the character’s voice through dialogue. Learn to move the story forward through connecting character and dialogue, exploring theme, and setting the tone.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Wed • Jul 29 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Kelly McAllister
GROUNDING YOUR BREATH AND VOICE
This workshop will investigate the essential elements of Kristin Linklater’s voice work: breath, touch of sound, resonators, and articulators. Learn to increase relaxation and explore thoughts, sounds, images and words while speaking to extend beyond the confines of our “familiar” voices and into the dynamic, limitlessness of our “natural” voices.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Tue • Aug 11 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Anne Penner
SCENE STUDY: 3 MINUTE MAX
Receive feedback and adjustments on a fully rehearsed and prepared scene of your choice from a team of theatre professionals. You’ll be challenged to dig in and realize a scene to your fullest capacity without previous instruction. The material you choose must be 3 minutes or less in length from a published play and fully blocked for the online space. Be prepared to receive specific, detailed and direct feedback in the first session. After practicing for a week, you’ll bring your scene back for more feedback, work and consideration. Scene partners will be assigned via random lottery pick.
Instructor approval required – please email education@dcpa.org.
2 sessions • $100 • 2 hr class time
Tues • Aug 18 & Aug 25 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Sabin Epstein, Timothy McCracken and Allison Watrous
ACTING FOR THE CAMERA
Do you have a burning desire to work in film and television, but are intimidated by being in front of the camera? Get ready to approach the work with the director calls action, “Action!” Learn to apply basic acting techniques to on-camera skills and build confidence in front of the camera.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Sat• Aug 22• 10am – 12pm • Timothy McCracken
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