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INTRODUCTORY ADULT CLASSES
Inclusive, welcoming classes designed to help you explore, create, and connect with fellow creatives.
Best for beginners
Whether you’re taking your first step toward a professional career or trying out something new for the first time, these inclusive courses offer a welcoming, supportive, and fun space to stretch yourself and meet other creatives.
Meet our faculty
With years of professional experience and credentials from around the country, our team leads with top talent and thoughtful curriculum development. Introductory Bios.
Intro to Acting – our most popular class!
6 sessions, 2 hours per class | Tuition: $325
Do you want to act but aren’t sure where to start? Join us for this six-week class designed specifically for the beginning actor, where you’ll learn the fundamentals of the craft. The class highlights powerful ways to make your acting choices feel natural and spontaneous. Discover the building blocks of acting through improvisation, theatre exercises, and character work.
Intro to Voice Over
6 sessions, 3 hours per class | Tuition: $400
Unlock your voice potential and explore the world of voice over! Step up to the mic and learn the basics of voicing commercials. Analyze and activate commercial copy, learn to take direction and increase your versatility.
Improvisation Sampler: Say Yes Series!
6 sessions, 2 hours per class | Tuition: $345
Join us in this 6 session, 3 week improvisation sampler to explore the fundamentals and beyond in our daytime offerings! Each session will focus on a specific focus in improvisation to explore and celebrate; sign up for one, two, or all three! Students can register for these workshops individually or as a package.
SAY YES! TO IMPROVISED ENSEMBLE
2 sessions • $145 • 2hr class time
Improv has something to offer everyone! In this two-part workshop, participants will explore the core principles of improvised ensemble work through group games and exercises. Learn strategies to strengthen connections and trust within an ensemble, develop confidence to move forward without knowing what comes next, and discover the depth and joy of investing in shared imagination. Group activities will tap into the lightheartedness and resiliency of play that support success on and off stage. Say “yes” to this experience!
SAY YES! TO IMPROVISED WORLD BUILDING
2 sessions • $145 • 2hr class time
There is a whole world surrounding improvised characters and story, and you get to co-create it! Improvisation provides moment-to-moment opportunities to explore and expand the world in which characters exist. In this two-part workshop, participants will delve into the discovery and development of objectives, relationships, and storytelling through engaging with and expanding the environment. Walk away with multiple tools to deepen your presence and connection to yourself, others, and the world around YOU.
SAY YES! TO SCRIPTED & UNSCRIPTED TECHNIQUES
2 sessions • $145 • 2 hr class time
At the heart of powerful performance is the ability to act and react authentically. This two–part workshop will explore scene work through both “text driven” and “improvised” approaches that utilize physicality, action, and environment. Students will explore different acting techniques to discover both specific, planned choices and in–the–moment choices to elevate scenes and character development. When used together, structure and spontaneity combine to support powerful choices, organic adjustments, and grounded, joyful discovery in the craft of acting! All materials will be provided in class.
INTRODUCTION TO ON CAMERA
6 sessions, 3 hours per class | Tuition: $430
Get ready to approach the work when the director calls, “Action!” Learn to apply basic acting techniques to on-camera skills and build confidence in front of the camera. Focus will center on “to camera” technique and short scene work. Actors will continue to apply core craft elements of acting along with the technical asks of on camera work.
Specialty Introductory Classes
Throughout the year, we program a range of specialty courses and 1-2 day workshops. Sign-up to be notified when we announce new programs!
Current Specialty Offerings:
Public Speaking Toolbox: Presence & Practice
2 session, 3 hours | Tuition: $200
Build confidence and command the room! This two-session workshop is designed for presenters of all experience levels who want to strengthen their public speaking presence and elevate their speaking skills. Using theatre-based techniques, participants will develop authenticity, vocal strength, composure, and resonance while developing a tool box of techniques to strengthen any presentation. Participants will explore how actors build intention and connection, applying these methods to their own speaking style. This extended session will build skills and put those skills into practice for transformed presence. Gain speaking confidence!
Playwriting Lab
8 sessions, 3 hours | Tuition: $480
Here is an opportunity to start a play, or continue to develop the play you’ve been working on. This 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.
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Our Core Track
What comes after Intro to Acting? We’ve designed a rich path for artistic development, akin to those you’d find in a Master Level program. Discover what comes next.
Specialty Classes
Throughout the year, we program 1-2 day workshops, master classes, and other specialty courses taught by visiting artists and local experts.
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