Studio Acting Conservatory

Directing is intended to enhance the skills and understanding of actors, directors, playwrights, and filmmakers. Through a series of lectures and scene presentations, the class focuses on script analysis and preparation, blocking and movement, business, uses of improvisation and working with actors, rhythm and tempo, theatrical organization, auditioning, and the integration of all aspects of technical theatre.

Comedy is an advanced class focusing on comic vocal and physical technique and style. Students explore comedy through exercises, clowning, and scene work in four periods: Modern Comedy, Comedy of Wit and Manners, Shakespeare and Molière, and Commedia dell’arte.