Teen Drama Cycle

Three Year
Teen Drama Cycle

Classes do not have to be taken in order.
The only class with a prerequisite is the Class 3 - Advance Acting.

Class One - Acting Basics 
The Basics you know about and the ones you don't know.

The Warm Ups - Necessary or Negotiable?
          New and fun warm ups to get yourself ready
The Auditions - Frightening or Fun?
          Tips to make auditions less stressful and more fun
The Rehearsal - Working Hard or Wasting Time
          Rules to live by
The Stage
          Up Down Center
          Proscenium Thrust Arena
The People - Chain of Command or Obstacles to the Top
The Props, Costumes and Makeup - Touch or Don't Touch
The Performance
          Advice from the Director, from the Costume People, from the Props People and from the Tech Crew
The Cast Party and Beyond - Creating a resume that is effective and planning for your next performance.

• Culminating in a performance for Parents

  Class Two - Improvisation 

Improv Skills

• Offer and Accept

• Developing Instant Characters

• Justification

• Physicalization

• Genre

Improv Games

• Good, Bad, Worst Advice

• 90 Second Alphabet

• Naive Press Conference

• Hollywood Director

  Class Three - Advanced Acting 

• Interview will determine entrance to class.

• Lessons will be based on teachings of Constantin Stanislavski and Eugene Vakhtangov from the book "The Theatre Machine III" by Albert Viola

• Subjects include props, motivation, preparing an entrance, goals and inner monologue

• Theater Conventions: Crying, Laughing, Whispering, etc.

• Culminating in a performance for Parents

  Class Four - Advanced Character Study and Storytelling

In this class we will be studying three specific areas of acting:

Character Development

  Class Five - Improving Theater Skills 

• 9 Exercises to develop skills based on the book, A Challenge for the Actor by Uta Hagen.

• Ms. Hagen was an influential acting teacher who taught, among others, Matthew Broderick, Christine Lahti, Jason Robards, Sigourney Weaver, Liza Minnelli, Whoopi Goldberg, Jack Lemmon, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. While being profiled in Premiere Magazine, actress Amanda Peet said of her mentor Hagen, that she was a “woman whose class you didn't want to miss.”

• Culminating in a performance.

  Class Six - Monologues

Monologues

Preparing you for auditions monologues.

Reader’s Theatre

It is a unique style of performance that can capture the imagination of the audience or done incorrectly, bomb. The final performance will be done Reader’s Theatre style.

• Must be available for 3 out of 5 plays during a season

• Lights

• Set Construction

• Props

• Stage Management