Overview
GREAT ARTISTS, WELL TRAINED.
Everyman Theatre’s professional training program provides theatre artists with rigorous training that engages deeply with craft and process. Our classes are taught by Everyman resident company members and staff as well as local professional theatre artists who engage students to unlock their imagination and cultivate skills. Everyman is committed to expanding the hearts and minds of our students through the amplification of empathy by seeing ourselves in the stories of others through the art created in the classroom, and beyond.
CLICK THROUGH BELOW TO BROWSE CLASSES BY SEMESTER.
FALL CLASSES
Actor’s Craft: Creating and Performing Character
Time:Mondays, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Date: September 29 – November 17
Instructor: Julia Brandeberry
This class invites students to identify, explore, and integrate the fundamental tools necessary for creating authentic characters and performing them onstage. Activate the body, exercise the voice, analyze text, engage the imagination, and increase your focus. This class culminates in sharing monologues with your peers. Memorization is expected.
REGISTER TODAY! | $400
Solo Performance
Time:Mondays, 7:00pm – 9:30pm
Date: September 29 – November 24; NO CLASS OCTOBER 20
Instructor: Joseph Ritsch
This class provides students with an opportunity to explore and create solo performances. Students will analyze the dramatic structures and characteristics of one-person shows through a series of viewings and readings of contemporary solo performers. Using guided prompts, students will engage in their own generative solo explorations, writing a series of short solo pieces throughout the class. Topics will include, among others, personal narrative and history, docudrama/found text, images as source, non-text-based storytelling, and performance art.
REGISTER TODAY! | $400
Playwriting
Time:Saturdays, 10:00am -12:00pm
Date: September 20 – November 8
Instructor: Kimberley Lynne
This class invites students who have a story to tell to develop the tools and confidence to share it. With a special focus on dialogue and scene development, you will script clear and compelling theatrical moments. Peers will read work, and you will engage in a critical response process.
REGISTER TODAY! | $400
WINTER CLASSES
Alexander Technique for Actors
Time:Mondays, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Date: January 5 – March 2 (NO CLASS JANUARY 19)
Instructor: Deborah Hazlett (Resident Company Member)
Actors are story tellers. We use all of ourselves to tell those stories – our minds, our hearts, our life experiences, and our bodies. The practice of Alexander Technique teaches us to integrate emotional truth with physical behavior in a way that can be sustained in performance. As performers, we develop and rely on vocal and physical habits to tell our stories. As we become aware of these habituated responses, we can learn to choose what is helpful and what is no longer needed. Come with a beginner’s mind and take a moment to pause, both in your mind and body, and see what you discover.
REGISTRATION OPENS SOON! | $400
Actor’s Craft: Scene Study 1
Time:Mondays, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Date: January 5 – March 2 (NO CLASS JANUARY 19)
Instructor: Julia Brandeberry
This course illuminates the process of performing with others onstage. Strengthen the ability to listen and respond authentically in performance, connect to impulse, and pursue necessary objectives resulting in conflict. This class culminates in a performance of scenes for an established professional for feedback. Memorization is expected. To register for this class, you must take Actor’s Craft: Creating and Performing Character or an equivalent class at another institution, as a prerequisite. Please email education@everymantheatre.org to register.
REGISTRATION OPENS SOON! | $400
Actor’s Craft: Creating and Performing Character
Time:Tuesdays, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Date: January 6 – February 24
Instructor: Megan Anderson Prue (Resident Company Member)
This class invites students to identify, explore, and integrate the fundamental tools necessary for creating authentic characters and performing them onstage. Activate the body, exercise the voice, analyze text, engage the imagination, and increase your focus. This class culminates in a sharing of monologues with your peers. Memorization is expected.
REGISTRATION OPENS SOON! | $400
Play Reading Book Club
Time:Saturdays, 10:00am -12:00pm
Date: January 10 – February 14
Instructor: Susan Stroupe
Whether you’re a theatre enthusiast or have never set foot in a theater, the Play Reading Book Club is a whole new way to experience a play in a deep and investigative way. Over the course of 6 weeks, read several plays out loud as a group and explore them together through discussions and dialogue, facilitated by a trained teaching artist. One of the selections will be Tuyết Thị Phạm’s play, Dawn. Participants will attend the Everyman world premiere production as part of this class. Scripts will be provided.
REGISTRATION OPENS SOON! | $350
SPRING CLASSES
Actor’s Craft: Performance
Time:Mondays, 7:00pm – 9:30pm
Date: March 23 – June 15 (NO CLASS MAY 25)
Instructor: Beth Hylton (Resident Company Member)
Students are invited into the rehearsal room and taught the tenets of the professional rehearsal space as they work on a play by an established playwright and directed by a professional director. This class culminates in a stage performance for family, friends, and invited guests. Memorization is expected and commitment to the schedule is essential. Rehearsals run until 10pm for the final two weeks leading to the performance.
REGISTRATION OPENS SOON! | $500*
*To register for this class, you must have taken Actor’s Craft: Creating and Performing Character AND Actor’s Craft: Scene Study or equivalent classes at other organizations/training programs. Please email education@everymantheatre.org to register.
Unlocking Shakespeare
Time:Mondays, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Date: April 13 – June 8 (NO CLASS MAY 25)
Instructor: Deborah Hazlett (Resident Company Member)
“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action” says Hamlet to the Players. But how? Shakespeare’s language is both figurative and descriptive, both prose and verse. We will use movement, voice, and acting exercises to unlock and understand the text and to make specific acting choices. We will integrate our voices and bodies with that understanding and work to create richly detailed Shakespearean monologues. Memorization prior to class is required.
REGISTRATION OPENS SOON! | $400
In need of scholarship support?
We encourage you to apply for a need-based scholarship by completing this FORM. Our need-based Creative Journey scholarship awards range to cover a portion of the tuition. While funding is limited, we work hard to accept as many students as possible throughout the year. Scholarship Applications can be submitted on a rolling basis.