Acting Technique | This special condensed workshop is for actors who have moved past beginner and are ready to take their skills to the next level. Refine your personal creative process for character development, script analysis and collaboration with scene partners. Students will move toward the goal of confidence and ease in auditioning and professional settings. This class is for students who have completed Beginner classes at Stage West (or alternate studio) or have professional experience.

Acting Technique for Beginners | Whether you are new to acting or looking to reground yourself in the fundamentals, here is an opportunity to step into the classroom and explore. While developing tools for artists to employ post–class, students will focus on the basics of character development, refine their connection to “actor’s impulse,” and workshop their individualized pathway to approaching a role. This space recognizes and honors the intersectionality of the storytellers and the stories being told.Whether you are new to acting or looking to reground yourself in the fundamentals, here is an opportunity to step into the classroom and explore. While developing tools for artists to employ post–class, students will focus on the basics of character development, refine their connection to “actor’s impulse,” and workshop their individualized pathway to approaching a role. This space recognizes and honors the intersectionality of the storytellers and the stories being told.

The Reality of Doing Part II: Intermediate Acting Technique | In Part II of this Meisner Basics series, master teacher Douglas Davidson reviews the Foundational Exercises, and then leads students into the Full Exercise. Also known as the Improvisation, this cornerstone of Meisner technique helps the actor achieve a state where they work moment-to-moment off their scene partner’s behavior in a truthful, spontaneous and specific way. Once mastered this becomes a powerful, replicable model for authentically acting any scene. All who have taken Meisner Basics I with Douglas Davidson are welcome to enroll. If think you may have special qualifications, please reach out to education@stagewest.org and describe your previous exposure to Meisner technique in detail.

Improv for All Experience Levels | Whether you have no acting experience, or years on the stage, improv classes are a great way to have fun and exercise your creativity! We will learn and play with both short and long form improvisation. Regularly playing improv games helps with public speaking, mental focus, spontaneity, stage fright, creativity, and getting out of work mode and into play! NOTE This class is 5 Tuesdays and 1 Wednesday. The final session on Wednesday, December 13th is an improv show for friends and family to enjoy!