Adult Training | Everyman Theatre

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.

Winter Classes

Improv Workshop
Teacher: Resident Company Member Bruce Randolph Nelson
Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm
Date: December 12 (One Day Only)
Cost: $125.00
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Description:
Improv isn’t about being funny—it’s about being present. This three-hour beginner session uses core improv principles like “Yes, and,” deep listening, and collaboration to build compassion, openness, and resilience. Through playful, low-pressure exercises, participants learn to respond instead of react, support instead of control, and stay curious instead of defensive. The skills transfer directly to everyday life—relationships, work, creativity, and leadership. You’ll leave feeling energized and connected. No experience required—just a willingness to show up and say yes.

Teaching Artist:
Bruce Randolph Nelson harnesses decades of experience and presence to bring depth and nuance to each Everyman season. He is an active member of Everyman Theatre, often seen making people laugh on and off the stage. Learn more about Bruce’s experience below and what it means to be part of Everyman’s Resident Company.

Audition Workshop
Teacher: Resident Company Member Bruce Randolph Nelson
Time: 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Date: January 23, (one day only)
Cost: $150
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Description:
The Audition Monologue: Deepening Your Work. A three-hour intensive for the experienced actor. During this intimate, hands-on workshop, each actor will select one monologue of the two they bring, to explore through individual coaching. Together, we’ll dig beneath the words to deepen your understanding of the character, clarify the circumstances and stakes, and broaden the choices you’ve already created. With enrollment capped at five actors, every participant will receive substantial one-on-one attention and the opportunity for focused exploration in a supportive room of experienced peers. Leave with a piece that puts your best work forward as you enter audition season. Three hours. Five actors. One monologue. A deeper dive.

Creating and Performing Character
Teacher: Resident Company Member Kyle Prue
Time: Mondays, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Date: January 4 – March 1 (NO CLASS January 18; Inclement weather date: March 8)
Cost: $400
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Description: 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.

*To register for this class, you must have taken Creating and Performing Character or an equivalent class at

Teaching Artist:
[Everyman Theatre]: (Resident Company Member) Harvey, Be Here Now, Pygmalion, Opus, A Number, Taking Sides, Sideman, Watch on the Rhine, Visiting Mr. Green, As Bees In Honey Drown, The Crucible, The 5th of July, The Glass Menagerie (2000), The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Heathen Valley, Voir Dire, The Lion in Winter, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Lonely Planet, The Importance of Being Earnest (1997), Amadeus, The Voice of the Prairie, Bus Stop, National Defense, The Hot L Baltimore, The Runner Stumbles [National Tour]: The Red Badge of Courage
[Regional]: Arena Stage: South Pacific, Yerma
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Life During Wartime, The Rocky Horror Show, National Defense (Helen Hayes nomination). Theatre of the First Amendment: The Lady from the Sea, Nathan the Wise, John Gabriel Borkman, Boomtown, Carrier, Halcyon Days. Studio Theatre: subUrbia. Signature Theatre: Taking My Life in Your Hands
Source Theatre: Psycho Beach Party. LA Theatreworks/Voice of America: Bus Stop. [TV/Film]: The Pelican Brief, Tuck Everlasting, Ladder 49. Teaching: Towson University – Acting, Everyman Theatre – Auditioning. [Directing]: Loyola University – Love and Information, Scapino

Scene Study 2
Time: Mondays, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Date: January 4 – March 1 (NO CLASS January 18; Inclement weather date: March 8)
Cost: $400
Please email education@everymantheatre.org to register

Description: 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 and rehearsing outside of class time are expected.

*To register for this class, you must have taken Creating and Performing Character or an equivalent class at another institution/training program, as a prerequisite.

Play Reading Book Club
Teacher: Susan Stroupe
Time: Saturdays, 10:00am – 12:00pm (Virtual*)
(*January 30th will be in person at Everyman Theatre. All other sessions will be held virtually on Zoom)
Date: January 23 – March 6
Cost: $400
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Description: 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 seven weeks, read several contemporary plays, and explore them together through discussions and dialogue, facilitated by a trained teaching artist. One of the selections will be Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. Participants will be invited to take a tour of the theater and attend tech rehearsal on January 30 as part of the class. Scripts will be provided.

Teaching Artist:

Susan Stroupe

Susan Stroupe is a Baltimore-based theater maker, with a focus in collaboratively devised pieces; scripts that challenge norms of race, gender, and genre; theater in nontraditional spaces; and critically examining and expanding the collective mythology of the dominant narrative. She has worked in the Twin Cities, LA, NYC, Albuquerque, Baltimore and her hometown Atlanta as a director, performer, writer, puppeteer, teaching artist, dramaturg, and deviser, In Baltimore, she works as a freelance director for independent companies, and she is a founding member and Artistic Associate for Submersive Productions, serving on the core creative team for The Mesmeric Revelations! Of Edgar Allan Poe, H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum, The Institute of Visionary History, and MASS/Rabble. She is a long-time member of the Teaching Artist team at Baltimore Center Stage, and a continuing associate of Philip Arnoult’s Center for International Theatre Development. She received her BA from Macalester College and MFA in Theatre Arts from Towson University, and has worked as an adjunct professor at Towson University, the University of Baltimore, and UMBC.

Playwriting
Teacher: Kimberley Lynne
Time: Mondays, 7:00pm – 9:00pm (Virtual on Zoom)
Date: January 4 – March 1 (NO CLASS January 18)
Cost: $400
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Description: 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’ll engage in a critical response process.

Teaching Artist:

Kimberley Lynne

Kimberley Lynne is a teacher, director, arts producer, actor and playwright. Over forty of her original plays have been produced, both at the amateur and professional levels. Her most recent play, Never Say Die, was included in the last Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts FreeFall festival. She has taught playwriting at the University of Baltimore, in Northern Ireland and at FPCT. This spring, she’s teaching Literary Criticism and Introduction to Theatre at Stevenson University. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild and Actors Equity Association.

REGISTRATION PROCESS

You will complete registration information upon purchasing the class. Once a class is purchased, Everyman Theatre’s Education Team will reach out with a welcome email at least one week before the class starts with any additional information you may need.

All class sales are FINAL SALE: This means there will be no refunds, unless one of the following applies:

Withdrawal from a class: While we know that plans shift, we strive to provide exceptional service and programming for all students. This includes attendance for ensemble building. If you must withdraw, you will receive a credit that can be used towards any class in our current season. Class credits expire on June 30th, of any given season. Be sure to use them before this date.

*Should any student be asked to withdraw from class or any program, our Director of Education will issue a refund at their discretion and contingent of the reason for removal.

Scholarship Recipients: Should you miss more than 3-class sessions during any program offering your scholarship is awarded for, you will be removed from programming with no refund or class credit.

Cancelations: Should Everyman cancel a class for any reason, students will receive a full refund.

PAYMENT PLANS:
Some classes have an option for payment plans. We will reserve your spot in the class of your selecting with a non-refundable deposit equal to 25% of tuition. Full payment is required prior to the start of the first class, or your spot in the class will be forfeited.

*Payment plans are only available for multi-week classes.

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.