(Ages 18+) Getting to Know Your Character Workshop

GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CHARACTER WORKSHOP

Take a deeper dive into character development in this one-day intensive designed for actors of all experience levels. Using hands-on exercises, movement, voice, and collaborative discussion, participants will leave with new tools for bringing any character to life.

Workshop
Ages 18+

Saturday, Aug. 22 | 10 a.m.

$60 per student

Includes journal, worksheets and take home resources

Each session will range from 5 - 6 hours depending on final class size.

Class Description

Class will consist of movement improv and writing exercises that allow students to compare and contrast their own body and experience with a character during the intensive.

Students may select a dream theatre role (with a one page monologue or two to three pages of heavy dialogue) or will be assigned a role based on character archetype selection at registration.

To get the best experience from their intensive, students are encouraged to read or watch the show their character is in at least one time (if not more) before the intensive. The more the student is an expert in their show and character selection, the easier the student can compare and contrast their own experience from their character's.

By the end of the intensive, each student will have a repertoire of exercises they can apply to better understand any character throughout their acting career, experience with peer-led analysis and critique, and increased movement, breath, and analysis skills.

What to Bring & Expect

Students should come prepared knowing their character well enough they can compare the character to themself.

Please wear movement clothes (ex. comfortable clothes for yoga, meditation, dance and movement improv – yoga pants, sweat pants, comfortable shirt).

Students are highly encouraged to bring:

• A yoga mat or blanket to use on the floor during class
• A water bottle
• Small snacks