Online Classes and Workshops
programme Dates
January 3 to 29, 2023
Arrival: Monday, January 2 Departure: Monday, January 30
Tuition Fees
$4,875 USD
Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by October 15 and save $600.
The Center for Actor Training now offers a variety of workshops and classes online, providing the opportunity for theater professionals around the world to study with our distinguished faculty.
The Shakespeare Audition Crash Course
Join Shakespeare & Company artists for a practical, six-week course in crafting a skillful and confident Shakespeare audition. This class will offer a comprehensive series of exercises to bring greater emotional truth, personal connection, and clarity to a speech of your choice.
In addition to coaching, you will have an opportunity to work with Shakespeare & Company’s casting team. The full course consists of five, 2.5-hour group sessions as well as one private coaching session scheduled after registration. Classes will include a weekly voice warm-up. Can’t make all of the dates? Not to worry, these Zoom classes will be recorded and available to you asynchronously so you can catch up before the next class. Class size will be limited to allow for personalized attention in each class.
Instructors: Sheila Bandyopadhyay, Director of Training, and Ariel Bock, Designated Linklater Teacher & Producing Associate
Special guest: Allyn Burrows, Shakespeare & Company Artistic Director
Tuition: $395; alumni and union discounts are available.
Student tuition: $350
BIPOC artist tuition: $325
Dates: Tuesdays, October 15, 22, 29, November 12, and 19; 6 pm – 8:30 pm ET over Zoom.
No Group Class November 5. Individual coaching sessions scheduled during that week.
You will study...
.01 Linklater Voice
The full progression of Kristin Linklater’s approach to voice training for actors is taught during the four weeks by Designated Linklater voice teachers. In addition to daily classes in Linklater, voice teachers regularly join in text classes and offer specialized classes to help participants integrate the voice work into their scenes.
.02 Movement
The movement progression includes Pure Movement (Swings), Alexander Technique, physical expressivity, and dance. Participants will be guided through exercises to promote awareness of (and release from) habitual body tension, sensitivity to impulse, dynamic physical presence and stamina, delight in moving with passion and precision, and ensemble.
.03 Text Work
Basics introduces the actor to a text approach which demands an open and personal commitment to thought, word, and gesture. Basics evolves into scene work, first through Dropping In (an approach to experiencing the text on a word-by-word basis) and into text analysis and detailed scene work. Classes in Sonnet and Structure of the Verse round out the text progression, allowing actors to merge their personal connection with the form of Shakespeare’s language.
.04 Actor/Audience Relationship
The participant is invited to explore the Elizabethan world of Actor/Audience Relationship—a theatrical reality without a fourth wall, in which the immediate energy of the audience fuels the actor to reveal a deeper level of truth and experience, which in turns enkindles the audience’s ability to receive Shakespeare’s language.
.05 Clown & Stage Fight
The participant is invited to explore the Elizabethan world of Actor/Audience Relationship—a theatrical reality without a fourth wall, in which the immediate energy of the audience fuels the actor to reveal a deeper level of truth and experience, which in turns enkindles the audience’s ability to receive Shakespeare’s language.
Tuition
Full course tuition is
$4,875 USD
- Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by October 15 and save $600.
A limited number of scholarships are available for People of the Global Majority/BIPOC artists from the Dennis Krausnick Fellowship Fund. Application and audition video due by October 15. Contact us for more information.
You will learn:
- A deeper connection of the body and voice when acting on stage
- Confidence to be fully present on stage when speaking Shakespeare's language
- An understanding of the forms and structures that support the actor’s emotional, visceral and cognitive imagination
- The skills necessary to authentically deliver Shakespeare’s language with accuracy, specificity, and clarity of thought
- A renewed trust in yourself as a theater artist
