A play doesn't need to be a musical or an opera to have musicality. Additionally, a playwright does not need to be a musician to find the musicality of their play. This 10-week course approaches the craft of playwriting through a musician's lens. Through exercises...
How to Tell Your Own Story
What happens when the material you are using to craft a play for the stage is being pulled from your own life story? Welcome to this intimate conversation about the writing process with playwrights and other theater makers, moderated by E. M. Lewis (The Gun Show), and...
(Mis)Representation
This introductory level class will focus on accessibly designed conversations on histories and legacies of racial misrepresentation and cultural appropriation in U.S. theatre. We will also apply that context to conversations on contemporary theatre production and...
Dramaturgy for the Audience: Magellanica
The pandemic has introduced new ways of creating theatrical experiences and revived older forms like the radio play. In this class, we will explore differences between stage productions and audio plays, and examine how ART’s audio dramas have been adapted and...
Acting in the Zoomiverse
This acting class will utilize zoom as a platform to discover how actors can deliver lines to each other in order to affect the other person. We will discuss what it means to “land” an action and become an action driven actor based on the given circumstances provided...
A Guide to a Director’s Process in Rehearsal
This 4-hour workshop is designed to share tools for being prepared, collaborative, and productive during the fast-paced professional regional theatre rehearsal process. The workshop will include: an overview of the audition room, rehearsal room, and on-set...
Stage Management: The Art of Leadership and Collaboration
Want to learn more about working as a stage manager at a professional level? There’s more to it than just “stand-by” and “Go.” Taught by Resident Stage Manager, Carol Ann Wohlmut and Production Manager Kristeen Willis, this four week class investigates theatre-making...
Stay Stage Ready: Focus on Comedy
“Dying is easy, comedy is hard.” Let’s see if that’s true! In this six-week, on-line class, we will work on contemporary comedic scenes from playwrights, such as Neil Simon, George Kaufman, Beth Henley, Christopher Durang and Jenny Schwartz. Explore and hone your...
Improvisation for Actors
You’ve probably heard of Theatresports or seen the TV show it inspired, Whose Line Is It Anyway? But did you know that most of the impro methods used in these popular entertainments originated from the work Keith Johnstone developed for/with professional actors at the...
Dramaturgy for the Audience: The Berlin Diaries
The pandemic has introduced new ways of creating theatrical experiences and revived older forms like the radio play. In this class, we will explore differences between stage productions and audio plays, and examine how ART’s audio dramas have been adapted and...
Movement Workshop and Physical Dramaturgy
Join Adin Walker, a PhD Candidate at Stanford in Performance Studies and choreographer of ART's recent Indecent, as he leads students through movement exercises that explore the physical vocabulary of Indecent. Adin will also lead a conversation around the movement...
Director’s Prep
This workshop examines the work a director does before First Rehearsal: script analysis, mining a text for your "why," understanding a production budget, talking with designers, and more. Day One: The Work You Do on Your Own. Day Two: Beginning to Collaborate with...