ADULT VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON CLASSES

A leading force in the training methods of American actors, Adler famously split from the Stanislavski-based teaching methods of her Group Theatre colleague, Lee Strasberg and focused her training of actors based on her own training with Stanislavski: not focusing on an emotion (emotional recall) but finding the emotional response within circumstance, gesture, voice and action. The long list of celebrities who have studied Adler’s acting style includes Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Candice Bergen, Melanie Griffith, Warren Beatty, Teri Garr, and Harvey Keitel. This online workshop explores the activities and inquiry points associated with the Adler technique.
All levels welcome.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Thu • Apr 15 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Samuel Wood

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 1000 audiobooks and 30 plus years of experience. This virtual workshop will focus on the tools and fundamentals of narrating fiction.

1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Thu • July 29 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Gabriella Cavallero

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 virtual 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
Thu • June 10 & 17 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Samuel Wood
Instructor approval required to register – inquire at education@dcpa.org.

Improv can help you with your acting work in scripted plays? Absolutely! This two-night online workshop will teach you how the basic skills of improv scene work can directly improve upon your scripted performance. Learn to commit in the moment and lean into your character choices. This class will help you gain confidence in your acting by learning to step into the unknown with self-assured ease.

2 sessions • $100 • 2 hr class time
Thu • Apr 22 & 29 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Sarah Kirwin

Expand your world of voice over. One voice, yours, holds the potential for an array of characters. In this virtual workshop discover tools to activate character and character choices for video games and animation to expand your voice-over range. Learn the tricks of the trade from a professional voice-over artist as you activate text and scenarios informed by the animation and gaming industries. This virtual workshop is an ideal choice for those interested in focusing on how vocal choices create character. All are welcome.

1 sessions • $50 • 2 hr class time
(Choose one the days listed)
Mon • May 17 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Justin Walvoord

Tue • June 8 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Justin Walvoord

Thu • July 22 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Justin Walvoord

After building your confidence and ease on camera in Acting on Camera I, dive more fully into the technical and creative side of the on-camera medium in this virtual class. Utilizing current TV and film scripts, you will work with scene partners to create work that is truly in the moment, featuring extreme close-ups, reaction shots and more.

4 sessions •$160 • 2 hr class time
(Choose one of the dates listed)
Sat • May 1 – 22 • 10am – 12pm • Timothy McCracken

Mon • July 12 – Aug 2 • 6:30-8:30pm • Timothy McCracken

Has Introduction to Acting gotten you excited to learn new skills with more challenging material? Join us on Zoom to deepen your acting technique through skill-building exercises while learning core elements of text analysis using material by world-class playwrights. Gain the tools to delve into your character, understand the complexities of the scene and become an active part in the journey of a play as a whole.

4 sessions • $160 • 2 hr class time
Mon • May 3 – 24 • 6:30-8:30pm • Timothy McCracken

From Shakespeare to Wilder, from Rostand to Odets, classic love scenes remain embedded in our collective memory. Choose from a long list of classic love scenes spanning centuries, and embrace the challenge of connecting with your heart, text and partner. Limited space available for this online class, enroll today!

4 sessions • $200 • 2.5 hr class time
Mon • May 3 – 24 • 6:30 – 9pm • Sabin Epstein
Instructor approval required to register – inquire at education@dcpa.org.

Do you want to act, but aren’t sure where to start? Join us on Zoom for this four-week class that is designed specifically for the beginning actor and will teach you the fundamentals of the craft. The class highlights quick and powerful ways to make your performance natural and spontaneous. Discover the building blocks of acting through improvisation, theatre exercises and character work.
Presented by UCHealth

4 sessions • $160 • 2 hr class time
(Choose one the days listed)
Tue • May 4 – 25 • 6:30-8:30pm • Rachel Taylor

Wed • May 5 – 26 • 12-2pm • Timothy McCracken

Wed • June 9 – 30 • 12-2pm • Timothy McCracken

Wed • June 9 – 30 • 6:30-8:30pm • Rachel Taylor

It’s time for your resume refresh! Make sure your resume content is clean, specific and seen. Spotlight the information that will help to grab the attention of a casting director, theatre company or film producer. Resume trends can change quickly and even the most experienced of actors needs to brush up their materials. Work with local casting director Sylvia Gregory to get tips and strategies on how to format your resume to showcase the clearest and most important information. Get your resume ready to land your next role!

1 session • $25 • 2 hr class time (special price!)
Tue • May 4 • 6:30-8:30pm • Sylvia Gregory, CSA
(Enrollment in this class does not guarantee employment.)

Empower and strengthen the connection between movement and voice. This online workshop will ignite and expand your full vocal range and arsenal of acting choices through movement. Break habitual patterns in your work and explore ways to release your vocal range and learn all the colors, dynamics and possibilities of strong vocal choices linked to movement and your body.

1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Wed • May 5 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Gabriella Cavallero

Sharpen your edge and continue to hone your commercial voiceover technique and learn about other aspects and genres of the voice-over industry in this virtual, four-week class. Learn about effective auditioning, where to find job opportunities, home studios, audiobooks, “explainer” and corporate VO, and much more. Transform copy into a compelling voice performance!

4 sessions • $160 • 2 hr class time
(Choose one of the days listed)
Wed • May 5 – 26 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Mare Trevathan

Mon • June 7 – 28 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Mare Trevathan

Tue • July 13 – Aug 3 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Mare Trevathan

Prerequisite: Voice Over I or instructor approval. Please inquire at education@dcpa.org.

Unlock your voice potential and explore the world of voice over! Step up to the mic and learn the basics of the radio and television voice over industry. Join this virtual class – analyzing and activating commercial copy, learning to take direction and increasing your versatility.

4 sessions • $160 • 2 hr class time
(Choose one of the days listed)

Thu • May 6 – 27 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Tia Marlier

Wed • June 9 – 30 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Martha Harmon-Pardee

Wed • July 14 – Aug 4 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Tia Marlier

After you’ve gotten a handle on the fundamentals of acting, keep building on those skills in Scene Study I. Continue discovering and exploring key elements of text analysis and characterization while working on scenes from theatre’s best playwrights. Take creative risks in a supportive online environment and see the reward of your work! This virtual course via zoom may require outside online rehearsal. Rehearsal outside of class time will be required. A complete syllabus outlining play titles and logistics will be sent prior to the first session.

4 sessions • $160 • 2 hr class time
(Choose one of the days listed)

Thu • May 6 – 27 • 6:30-8:30pm • Samuel Wood

Tue • July 13 – Aug 3 • 6:30-8:30pm • Samuel Wood

Prerequisite: Introduction to Acting or instructor approval. Please inquire at education@dcpa.org.

One of the great and joyous challenges for an actor is being able to create and play a diversity of characters. This online class invites you to further your craft in exploring plays that ask for one actor to play multiple parts in plays such as: Clybourne Park; Psycho Beach Party; The Mystery of Irma Vep; The Exonerated; Mambo Mouth; Parallel Lives (The Kathy and Mo Show); For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf; Valhalla; The Baltimore Waltz; and On The Verge.

4 sessions • $200 • 2.5 hr class time
Thu • May 6 – 27 • 6:30-9pm • Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski

Prerequisites: Introduction to Acting & Scene Study I or instructor approval. Please inquire at education@dcpa.org.

Here is an opportunity to start a play, or continue to develop the play you’ve been working on. This virtual class, designed for beginning, and ongoing playwrights and their work, will focus on developing character, dialogue and moving the story forward through plot and structure. Your work will be regularly read to help development.

4 sessions • $200 • 2.5 hr class time
(Choose one of the dates listed)
Thu • May 6 – 27 • 6:30 – 9pm • Kelly McAllister

Mon • July 12 – Aug 2 • 6:30 – 9pm • Kelly McAllister

Don’t miss this opportunity to dust off your character shoes and get moving in your own space! Learn fun and challenging Broadway choreography and exercise your technique in theatre dance fundamentals. Dancers will be led through a warm-up before learning a fun routine, all through Zoom.
Presented by UCHealth
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Wed • May 12 • 6:30 – 8:30pm

Self-Taped Auditions were frequent prior to the pandemic, and are sure to remain commonplace in the business in the years to come. This virtual class will focus on the core technical elements needed to help you present a professional audition video with solid set up suggestions along with tips to capture your audition successfully. The class will then explore slate and copy work while considering acting craft techniques that will help you share your confidence and on camera skills.

1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Wed • May 12• 6:30-8:30pm • Timothy McCracken & Justin Walvoord

This two-session virtual workshop will teach you advanced improv techniques that can directly translate to the success of your work in performance. Using improv long forms such as The Harold and La Ronde, participants will learn how to gain a thorough understanding and deepening of the characters they play, while having a blast doing it! Students will also use excerpts of their own scripts that they bring into the workshop.

2 session • $100 • 2 hr class time
Thu • May 13 & 20 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Sarah Kirwin

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 specific, physical characterizations. In this virtual class, we’ll investigate the Viewpoints’ power both to strengthen the relationship between performers and to give an individual performer the tools to develop and embody a character with precision and presence.
All levels welcome.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Tue • May 18 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Allison Watrous

Lucy Roucis, a celebrated actor who graced Colorado stages as well as film and television for over 30 years, passed away in February 2021. Her spirit lives on through this one-of-a-kind acting class based around the acting techniques that Lucy routinely employed as a disciplined artist, developing character around the unique elements of one’s own instrument, and redefining what truly is stellar artistry. This class will focus on the craft of Uta Hagen, scene analysis and improvisation.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Wed • May 19 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Regan Linton

Receive feedback and adjustments on a fully rehearsed and prepared scene of your choice from a team of theatre professionals, virtually on Zoom. 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 rehearsing for a week, you’ll bring your scene back for more feedback, work and consideration. Have you taken 3 Min Max before? This is an excellent opportunity to take the class again and explore a new, challenging scene.

2 sessions • $100 • 2 hr class time
Wed • May 19 & 26 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Sabin Epstein, Timothy McCracken and Allison Watrous
Instructor approval required to register – inquire at education@dcpa.org.

Explore the Meisner Technique! This virtual workshop will introduce you to Sanford Meisner’s unique approach through exercises focusing on authentic listening and responding, connecting with other actors and character behavior, and give you the ability to explore and employ the benefits of Meisner Technique in your work. You’ll develop a greater ability to respond to your acting partner and discover new ways to approach the craft of acting.

1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Tue • May 25 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Christy Montour-Larson

Continue to further your craft in discovering the deeply funny and emotionally complex plays of Yasmin Reza.  Reza is a multi- Tony Award-winning French playwright whose works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have achieved both critical and popular international success. Her plays focus on complex facets of life, from family relationships and friendships, to disillusionment, love, and betrayal. This virtual class will ask students to explore how to breathe life into characters from Reza’s master works of God of Carnage, Art and Conversations at a Funeral.

4 sessions • $200 • 2.5 hr class time
Tue • June 8 – 29 • 6:30-9pm • Samuel Wood

Prerequisites: Introduction to Acting & Scene Study I or instructor approval. Please inquire at education@dcpa.org.

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.

4 sessions • $160 • 2 hr class time
Thu • June 10 – July 1 • 6:30-8:30pm • Timothy McCracken

How much character and interpretation is expected of you in the first read-through, and what is the point of tablework? Both aspects inform character choice, relationship development and establish communication between a director and actor early in the rehearsal process. Discover processes for script analysis as you spend each virtual session reading plays aloud in active roundtable discussions. Even if you are not a performer, those who want to approach classic and contemporary plays from a literary perspective (or those who share their lives with actors) will receive some valuable insight. Outside reading time is required.

4 sessions • $160 • 2 hr class time
Thu • June 10 – July 1 • 6:30-8:30pm • Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski

What if our answers are already within us? What if we slow down and take the time to truly listen and live from the inside out? This course is an invitation to approach each moment, choice, and encounter with wonder and genuine curiosity. As children, we lived with wide-open hearts and minds. Now as adults, we have the chance to practice that child-like wonder and flow with an intention of pure discovery. This virtual workshop will explore presence, mindfulness, and the root of discovery. Come live in the moment!
All levels welcome.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Thu • July 15 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Michanda Lindsey

Polish your presentation skills to deliver your ideas in a clear, efficient and powerful way. This highly individualized virtual class will capitalize on your strengths, address your challenges and non-verbal aspects, and explore prosody and text to maximize your effectiveness. You’ll learn to control nerves and overcome common fears as you gain skills to make you more effective and competitive in your career.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Tue • Aug 3 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Allison Watrous & Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski

Irish is a must-learn for any actor. Irish plays are a foundational part of the theater repertoire. From JM Synge to Eugene O’Neill to Brian Friel, there are many wonderful roles to play. In this interactive virtual workshop, we will study the standard Irish stage dialect activating the voice of the Emerald Isle.
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Thu • Aug 5 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Jennifer Thomas