Explore the powerful world of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage through scene work drawn from SWEAT and CLYDE'S. Led by actor Reza Salazar, who performed in both original productions, this class gives actors firsthand insight into Nottage’s richly textured language, complex characters, and social urgency. The work emphasizes authenticity, emotional truth, and deeply grounded contemporary performance.

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• Prerequisite: Open to all. 

A hands-on course that teaches performers how to create high-quality headshots, self-tapes, and promotional images using only their smartphones. In today’s industry, actors constantly need updated photos and self-tape material—for auditions, casting calls, social media presence, and personal branding. This class is designed to give you practical tools you can apply immediately, without needing professional equipment. You will learn: how to use your phone’s camera like a pro; lighting techniques for indoor and outdoor shoots; how to take strong, flattering headshots; self-tape setup, framing, background & sound; editing tips for clean, polished photos; and how to create promotional & social media content that stands out. You will experience live demos and hands-on practice with small props and lighting tools, and you'll receive a downloadable guide with key takeaways.

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Over the course of this five-session workshop, Voice Over Director Theresa Buchheister will run you through a gauntlet of voiceover auditions, from cartoons to audiobooks to audio dramas to video games to commercials! So, even if you cannot attend all 5 weeks, you will get a workout! This workshop is open to those with VO experience looking to sharpen their audition skills, as well as to performers who are new to VO looking for an introduction to the craft. Theresa Buchheister has directed hundreds of audiobooks, cartoons and video games, including Cartoon Network’s Pokémon XYZ, Nickelodeon’s The Winx Club, and David Byrne’s audiobook How Music Works. As a performer, they have narrated countless audiobooks and textbooks, and voiced cartoon characters on Pokémon, The Winx Club, Milly, and many more.

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When the actor believes, we believe. The child’s natural instinct for play is the foundation of the actor’s process. Using the game of make believe to get into the “shoes” of the character, we begin to play with the possibilities that game invites in us. In order to believe I am the character, I must begin to learn all I can about who “I” am in the role: what surrounds and affects me, what I know, where I have been and where I am going; what I want, and what I do to get it or to make it happen. We use improvisation to awaken and explore creative impulses. Theatre games and exercises expand imagination, awareness, concentration, expressivity, and help build skills of communication, cooperation, and collaboration. Through text work designed for the young performer, we make strong, specific, meaningful connection to the language and circumstances of the play, bringing the author’s words to life. Through acting, young people gain compassionate insight about themselves and about the world around them; gain poise and confidence; develop problem-solving skills; and engage with peers and mentors in a joyful, collaborative process.

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• Prerequiste: Open to All (ages 9-13)

Jessica Hecht leads this special 2-session scene and script analysis workshop. This workshop is for professional performers who desire to return to, or maintain an ongoing relationship with a dynamic and fertile state of learning. The goal: to use the specifics of language, action, subtext, circumstance, and relationships in order to connect with the work at the deepest most personal level. You are encouraged to push boundaries with the aim of building ever more complex characters and situations, allowing and exploring what is powerfully, unexpectedly revealed. Note, this is not a performance oriented class, but rather a process oriented one.

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