DCPA CHILD & TEEN CLASSES
For eager students as young as three to high schoolers taking the first step towards a theatre career, our classes fuel creativity and reinforce the tools to help all skill levels improve and develop their craft.
We are excited to offer online summer workshops and classes for High School Students, starting the 9th grade this fall through High School Seniors who have just graduated.
Classes for PreK – Middle School will return this fall, check back in August for more information.
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!
1 session • $40 • 2 hr class time
Tue • Jun 9 • 3:30 – 5:30pm • Mare Trevathan
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 both classic and 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.
2 sessions • $80 • 2 hr class time
Thu • Jun 11 & 18 • 3:30 – 5:30pm • Allison Watrous
IMPROV SLAM!
Throw inhibitions aside, build confidence and explore the fun and spontaneous world of improv. Using group activities, short-form games and improvised scene work, this class creates a supportive environment for creative play that will help you discover how to make strong choices that further character and situation.
Register for one, two or all three sessions!
1 session • $40 • 2 hr class time
Tue • Jun 16 • 3:30 – 5:30pm • Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski
Sat • Jun 20 • 10am-12pm • Allison Watrous
Sat • Aug 22 • 10am- 12pm • Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski
TEEN MASTER CLASS: JOSEPH, HUNTER, AND RUHL
For advanced acting students who are ready to take on a challenge, this class intensive will explore scene work from three prolific contemporary playwrights – Samuel D. Hunter, Rajiv Joseph and Sarah Ruhl. Advance your craft through detailed scene analysis and in-depth character exploration.
Instructor approval required – please email education@dcpa.org.
2 sessions • $80 • 2 hr class time
Wed, Jun 24 & Thu, Jun 25 • 3:30 – 5:30pm • Allison Watrous
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.
Special Master Class!
1 session • $50 • 2 hr class time
Tue • Jun 30 • 6:30 – 8:30pm • Anne Penner
PERFORMANCE CLASS: ZOOM DEVISING
In this performance class, we will explore, devise and create an original Zoom performance of monologues and short scenes to share in the final class with family and friends in our online classroom! Learn to theatrically devise in this new creative online environment!
2 sessions • $100 • 2.5 hr class time
Tue, Jul 14 & Thu, Jul 16 • 3:30 – 6:00pm • Allison Watrous
THE ART OF AUDITIONING
When you want to learn how to turn acting skills into a career, it’s all about the audition. This workshop will guide you towards preparing material for the big moment and provide you with strategies for taking control of your performance. Whether auditioning for productions at school, local theatres college or art schools, this workshop will be very hands-on. Please be ready to work with a prepared monologue.
1 session • $40 • 2 hr class time
Sat• Jul 18 • 10am-12pm • 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 • $40 • 2 hr class time
Sat• Aug 29• 10am-12pm • Tim McCracken
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