Actor Training Programs - Shakespeare & Company https://shakespeare.org/actor-training/ Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:16:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://shakespeare.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cropped-Frame-1-32x32.png Actor Training Programs - Shakespeare & Company https://shakespeare.org/actor-training/ 32 32 January Month-long Intensive https://shakespeare.org/actor-training/2023-month-long-intensive/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 04:24:04 +0000 https://shakespeare.design/?post_type=actor_training&p=12546 The Month-long Intensive is Shakespeare & Company’s signature workshop. For six days a week, morning to night, participants immerse themselves in voice, movement, text analysis, exploration of the actor/audience relationship, sonnet work, scene work, clown, stage fight, and in-depth discussions about the function of theater and the role of the actor in today’s world.

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January Month-long Intensive

program Dates

December 28, 2024 to January 19, 2025

Arrival: Friday, December 27 Departure: Monday, January 20

Tuition Fees

$4,850 USD

Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by September 30 and save $500.

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The January Intensive is Shakespeare & Company’s signature workshop. For six days a week, morning to night, participants immerse themselves in voice, movement, text analysis, exploration of the actor/audience relationship, sonnet work, scene work, clown, stage fight, and in-depth discussions about the function of theatre and the role of the actor in today’s world.
Program Description
The goal of the January Intensive is to expand the actor’s vocal, physical, emotional, and imaginative responsiveness to language through Linklater voice work, and to apply it to the delights and demands of Shakespeare’s text. Shakespeare & Company faculty offer an integrated approach in which each class complements and builds upon the others, and each participant receives careful and considered attention and support. Shakespeare & Company’s Month-long Intensive is geared toward mid-career theater professionals. If you are a current undergraduate student, please consider the Summer Shakespeare Intensive.
Dates

December 28, 2024, through January 19, 2025

Arrival: Friday, December 27
Departure: Monday, January 20

Tuition

$4,850 USD

Scholarships

THIS YEAR’S SCHOLARSHIP AND FINANCIAL AID DEADLINE HAS PASSED

A limited number of scholarships are available for People of the Global Majority/BIPOC artists from the Dennis Krausnick Fellowship Fund. Application, interview, and audition video are due by October 15.

For consideration and further details, fill out the online application and check the box for BIPOC scholarships. Please note: Multiple discounts and scholarships cannot be combined.

Housing

Tuition costs include single-occupancy housing in apartments, cottages, or dormitory-style rooms with full kitchen access. All housing is located on campus close to studios and classrooms.

PLEASE NOTE: For all in-person workshops, all participants and workshop staff are required to have completed a COVID-19 vaccine regimen.
 
For all programs held on the Shakespeare & Company campus in Lenox, Mass., this includes being up to date on the most recent COVID-19 vaccine dose(s) for which one is eligible.
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.01 Linklater Voice

The full progression of Kristin Linklater’s approach to voice training for actors is taught during the four weeks by Designated Linklater voice teachers. In addition to daily classes in Linklater, voice teachers regularly join in text classes and offer specialized classes to help participants integrate the voice work into their scenes.

.02 Movement

The movement progression includes Pure Movement (Swings), Alexander Technique, physical expressivity, and dance. Participants will be guided through exercises to promote awareness of (and release from) habitual body tension, sensitivity to impulse, dynamic physical presence and stamina, delight in moving with passion and precision, and ensemble.

.03 Text Work

Basics introduces the actor to a text approach which demands an open and personal commitment to thought, word, and gesture. Basics evolves into scene work, first through Dropping In (an approach to experiencing the text on a word-by-word basis) and into text analysis and detailed scene work. Classes in Sonnet and Structure of the Verse round out the text progression, allowing actors to merge their personal connection with the form of Shakespeare’s language.

.04 Actor/Audience Relationship

The participant is invited to explore the Elizabethan world of Actor/Audience Relationship—a theatrical reality without a fourth wall, in which the immediate energy of the audience fuels the actor to reveal a deeper level of truth and experience, which in turns enkindles the audience’s ability to receive Shakespeare’s language.

.05 Clown & Stage Fight

The participant is invited to explore the Elizabethan world of Actor/Audience Relationship—a theatrical reality without a fourth wall, in which the immediate energy of the audience fuels the actor to reveal a deeper level of truth and experience, which in turns enkindles the audience’s ability to receive Shakespeare’s language.

Tuition

Full course tuition is

$4,850 USD
  • Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by September 30 and save $500.

A limited number of scholarships are available for People of the Global Majority/BIPOC artists from the Dennis Krausnick Fellowship Fund. Application and audition video due by October 15. Contact us for more information.

Contact us
Find out more about DKF Fund

You will learn:

  • A deeper connection of the body and voice when acting on stage
  • Confidence to be fully present on stage when speaking Shakespeare's language
  • An understanding of the forms and structures that support the actor’s emotional, visceral and cognitive imagination
  • The skills necessary to authentically deliver Shakespeare’s language with accuracy, specificity, and clarity of thought
  • A renewed trust in yourself as a theatre artist
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]]> Summer Shakespeare Intensive https://shakespeare.org/actor-training/summer-shakespeare-intensive/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:09:20 +0000 https://shakespeare.design/?post_type=actor_training&p=11876 The Summer Shakespeare Intensive is geared towards undergraduate theater students, recent graduates, and early career acting professionals, but it is open to a wide-ranging audience of theater performers and practitioners.

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Summer Shakespeare Intensive

program Dates

May/June 2025

Dates Coming Soon!

Tuition Fees

$5,850 USD

Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by March 1 and save $500.

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Modeled after our internationally acclaimed Month-long Intensive, the Summer Shakespeare Intensive (formerly the Summer Training Institute) provides young actors the opportunity to immerse themselves in Shakespeare six days a week for four weeks during our summer performance season.
A Typical Day

9 am to 12 pm – Voice and Movement classes

12:15 pm to 1:15 pm – Lunch 

1:30 pm to 5:15 pm – Text/Scene work or specialized class

5:30 pm to 6:45 pm – Dinner

7 pm to 9 pm – Text or special class (some evenings will be off)

The Summer Shakespeare Intensive is geared toward undergraduate theater students, recent graduates, and early career acting professionals, but it is open to open to a wide-ranging audience of performers and practitioners.

The Summer Shakespeare Intensive schedule is based on a daily and weekly progression of exercises. Occasionally, special events are held, or time-off for learning lines, readings, or research is given. There will be one day off each week, typically Mondays, and all scene work will culminate in a final showing of the scenes open to company members, family and friends of the participants.

Scholarships
The deadline for financial aid and BIPOC scholarships for the 2024 Summer Shakespeare Intensive has passed.
Housing and Meals

Tuition costs include double-occupancy housing and breakfast provided each day. Housing is located within walking distance of restaurants and a grocery store. Mini-refrigerators and microwaves are available in each room. A limited number of single rooms may be available for an additional fee, amount TDB. Transportation from housing to campus will also be provided. 

PLEASE NOTE: For all in-person workshops, all participants and workshop staff are required to have completed a COVID-19 vaccine regimen. For all programs held on the Shakespeare & Company campus in Lenox, Mass., this includes being up to date on the most recent COVID-19 vaccine dose(s) for which one is eligible.
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Tuition

Full course tuition is

$5,850 USD
  • Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by March 1 and save $600.

A limited number of scholarships are available for People of the Global Majority/BIPOC artists from the Dennis Krausnick Fellowship Fund. Application and audition video due by March 15. Contact us for more information.

Contact us
Find out more about DKF Fund

You will learn:

  • A full complement of Shakespeare text work
  • The full progression of Linklater voice work taught by designated Linklater teachers
  • Movement and Dance
  • Specialized Classes in The Elizabethan World Picture, Play or Clown, and Stage Violence
  • Exploration of the actor/audience relationship
  • Monologue, sonnet and scene work
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]]> Weekend Intensives https://shakespeare.org/actor-training/weekend-intensives/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 04:24:31 +0000 https://shakespeare.design/?post_type=actor_training&p=12548 Designed for professional actors and theater students who seek an introduction to Shakespeare & Company's training methods, as well as alumni who wish to refresh and reconnect with the work.

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Weekend Intensives

program Dates

Schedule per city listed below

Tuition Fees

$385 USD

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Designed for professional actors and theater students who seek an introduction to Shakespeare & Company’s training methods, as well as alumni who wish to refresh and reconnect with the work.
 

Shakespeare & Company’s Weekend Intensive integrates voice, movement, and monologue work. Participants explore ways to unlock the emotional and intellectual content inherent in Shakespeare’s language, yielding a direct relationship between actor and text. Rigorous attention is paid to identifying and offering skills specific to the needs of the participants throughout the course of the weekend.

Weekend Intensives are most often held in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Seattle, and at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. Application deadlines are typically one week prior to the start of the workshop; applicants may be accepted after the deadline as space allows.

Don’t see your city listed?  Contact Us to talk about bringing a workshop to your theater company, university, or city!

Upcoming Weekend Intensives

San Jose, Calif. – October 4 – 6, 2024

Lenox, Mass. – October 25 – 27, 2024


New York, N.Y. – November 8 – 10, 2024


Chicago, Ill. – November 15 – 17, 2024

Click here to apply. 
The Weekend Intensive Format

Friday (6 pm –10 pm)* is an introduction to Shakespeare & Company’s aesthetic, as well as an opportunity for the actors to shift gears and focus on their work through a series of exercises involving voice, body, and memory work.

Saturday (10 am – 8 pm)* focuses on the actor’s individual instrument and experiences as applied to a monologue that the actor has prepared for the class. Faculty may invite participants to apply voice and/or movement work as well as introduce aspects of structure of the verse to their speeches.

Sunday (10 am – 4 pm)* continues with dynamic voice and body work, furthering the actor’s connection with Shakespeare’s text through both individual and group work.

Adequate time for meal breaks is given, though participants are responsible for their own meals. The workshops are limited to 14 participants, and the minimum age requirement is 18 years old.

*Schedule for individual weekend may be slightly adjusted to accommodate travel and/or commutes.

Discounts

Actors who have completed our January Month-long Intensive, Summer Shakespeare Intensive (formerly the Summer Training Institute), or Conservatory programs are eligible for 15% Alumni discount on Weekend Intensive tuition. Members of acting unions and of the Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA) are eligible for 10% discount on tuition. Student discount ($350) is applicable for those currently enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student. BIPOC discount ($325) is available for those who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color.

Discounts may not be combined.

PLEASE NOTE: For all in-person workshops, all participants and workshop staff are required to have completed a COVID-19 vaccine regimen. For all programs held on the Shakespeare & Company campus in Lenox, Mass., this includes being up to date on the most recent COVID-19 vaccine dose(s) for which one is eligible.
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]]> In-Person Specialized Workshops https://shakespeare.org/actor-training/in-person-specialized-workshops/ Sun, 26 Mar 2023 04:24:43 +0000 https://shakespeare.design/?post_type=actor_training&p=12550 The Center for Actor Training offers a variety of specialized workshops throughout the year exploring a full range of disciplines including rhetoric, wit, clown, fight, voice, movement, public speaking, and more.

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In-person Specialized Workshops

programme Dates

January 3 to 29, 2023

Arrival: Monday, January 2 Departure: Monday, January 30

Tuition Fees

$4,875 USD

Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by October 15 and save $600.

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The Center for Actor Training typically offers a variety of specialized workshops throughout the year exploring a full range of disciplines including rhetoric, wit, clown, fight, voice, movement, public speaking, and more. Go here for more details on our online programming.
Structure of the Verse

In this workshop, Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer will guide participants to a greater understanding of the symbiotic nature of form and content embedded in Shakespeare’s language. Participants will explore how the structure of Shakespeare’s writing deepens its emotional content and how the feeling behind the content guides the structure. Like classical music, structure follows the natural rhythms of the body, and participants will examine how the experience of a dramatic moment lives on both conscious and unconscious levels. This workshop is open to all. Discounts are available for Union and STA members, as well as alumni of the Month-long Intensive or Summer Shakespeare Intensive.

DATES: September 21 to 22, 2024

SCHEDULE: Saturday 10 AM – 4 PM with a break for lunch, Sunday 10 AM – 1 PM

TUITION: $450

LOCATION: Shakespeare & Company campus, Lenox, Mass.

HOUSING: Limited housing is available for an additional fee in single-occupancy rooms in our on-campus dormitory building.

FACULTY: Tina Packer

ADDITIONAL: Participants will be offered tickets to attend a performance of Three Tall Persian Women during the workshop weekend.

 

PLEASE NOTE: For all in-person workshops, all participants and workshop staff are required to have completed a COVID-19 vaccine regimen. For all programs held on the Shakespeare & Company campus in Lenox, Mass., this includes being up to date on the most recent COVID-19 vaccine dose(s) for which one is eligible.

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.01 Linklater Voice

The full progression of Kristin Linklater’s approach to voice training for actors is taught during the four weeks by Designated Linklater voice teachers. In addition to daily classes in Linklater, voice teachers regularly join in text classes and offer specialized classes to help participants integrate the voice work into their scenes.

.02 Movement

The movement progression includes Pure Movement (Swings), Alexander Technique, physical expressivity, and dance. Participants will be guided through exercises to promote awareness of (and release from) habitual body tension, sensitivity to impulse, dynamic physical presence and stamina, delight in moving with passion and precision, and ensemble.

.03 Text Work

Basics introduces the actor to a text approach which demands an open and personal commitment to thought, word, and gesture. Basics evolves into scene work, first through Dropping In (an approach to experiencing the text on a word-by-word basis) and into text analysis and detailed scene work. Classes in Sonnet and Structure of the Verse round out the text progression, allowing actors to merge their personal connection with the form of Shakespeare’s language.

.04 Actor/Audience Relationship

The participant is invited to explore the Elizabethan world of Actor/Audience Relationship—a theatrical reality without a fourth wall, in which the immediate energy of the audience fuels the actor to reveal a deeper level of truth and experience, which in turns enkindles the audience’s ability to receive Shakespeare’s language.

.05 Clown & Stage Fight

The participant is invited to explore the Elizabethan world of Actor/Audience Relationship—a theatrical reality without a fourth wall, in which the immediate energy of the audience fuels the actor to reveal a deeper level of truth and experience, which in turns enkindles the audience’s ability to receive Shakespeare’s language.

Tuition

A limited number of scholarships are available for People of the Global Majority/BIPOC artists from the Dennis Krausnick Fellowship Fund. Contact us for more information.

Contact us
Find out more about DKF Fund

You will learn:

  • A deeper connection of the body and voice when acting on stage
  • Confidence to be fully present on stage when speaking Shakespeare's language
  • An understanding of the forms and structures that support the actor’s emotional, visceral and cognitive imagination
  • The skills necessary to authentically deliver Shakespeare’s language with accuracy, specificity, and clarity of thought
  • A renewed trust in yourself as a theatre artist
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]]> Online Classes and Workshops https://shakespeare.org/actor-training/online-classes-and-workshops/ Sat, 25 Mar 2023 04:24:54 +0000 https://shakespeare.design/?post_type=actor_training&p=12552 The Center for Actor Training now offers a variety of workshops and classes online, providing the opportunity for theater professionals around the world to study with our distinguished faculty.

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Online Classes and Workshops

programme Dates

January 3 to 29, 2023

Arrival: Monday, January 2 Departure: Monday, January 30

Tuition Fees

$4,875 USD

Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by October 15 and save $600.

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The Center for Actor Training now offers a variety of workshops and classes online, providing the opportunity for theater professionals around the world to study with our distinguished faculty.
The Shakespeare Audition Crash Course

Join Shakespeare & Company artists for a practical, six-week course in crafting a skillful and confident Shakespeare audition. This class will offer a comprehensive series of exercises to bring greater emotional truth, personal connection, and clarity to a speech of your choice.

In addition to coaching, you will have an opportunity to work with Shakespeare & Company’s casting team. The full course consists of five, 2.5-hour group sessions as well as one private coaching session scheduled after registration. Classes will include a weekly voice warm-up. Can’t make all of the dates? Not to worry, these Zoom classes will be recorded and available to you asynchronously so you can catch up before the next class. Class size will be limited to allow for personalized attention in each class.

Instructors: Sheila Bandyopadhyay, Director of Training, and Ariel Bock, Designated Linklater Teacher & Producing Associate

Special guest: Allyn Burrows, Shakespeare & Company Artistic Director

Tuition: $395; alumni and union discounts are available.

Student tuition: $350

BIPOC artist tuition: $325

Dates: Tuesdays, October 15, 22, 29, November 12, and 19; 6 pm – 8:30 pm ET over Zoom. 

            No Group Class November 5. Individual coaching sessions scheduled during that week.

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You will study...

.01 Linklater Voice

The full progression of Kristin Linklater’s approach to voice training for actors is taught during the four weeks by Designated Linklater voice teachers. In addition to daily classes in Linklater, voice teachers regularly join in text classes and offer specialized classes to help participants integrate the voice work into their scenes.

.02 Movement

The movement progression includes Pure Movement (Swings), Alexander Technique, physical expressivity, and dance. Participants will be guided through exercises to promote awareness of (and release from) habitual body tension, sensitivity to impulse, dynamic physical presence and stamina, delight in moving with passion and precision, and ensemble.

.03 Text Work

Basics introduces the actor to a text approach which demands an open and personal commitment to thought, word, and gesture. Basics evolves into scene work, first through Dropping In (an approach to experiencing the text on a word-by-word basis) and into text analysis and detailed scene work. Classes in Sonnet and Structure of the Verse round out the text progression, allowing actors to merge their personal connection with the form of Shakespeare’s language.

.04 Actor/Audience Relationship

The participant is invited to explore the Elizabethan world of Actor/Audience Relationship—a theatrical reality without a fourth wall, in which the immediate energy of the audience fuels the actor to reveal a deeper level of truth and experience, which in turns enkindles the audience’s ability to receive Shakespeare’s language.

.05 Clown & Stage Fight

The participant is invited to explore the Elizabethan world of Actor/Audience Relationship—a theatrical reality without a fourth wall, in which the immediate energy of the audience fuels the actor to reveal a deeper level of truth and experience, which in turns enkindles the audience’s ability to receive Shakespeare’s language.

Tuition

Full course tuition is

$4,875 USD
  • Early payment discount: Pay the full tuition by October 15 and save $600.

A limited number of scholarships are available for People of the Global Majority/BIPOC artists from the Dennis Krausnick Fellowship Fund. Application and audition video due by October 15. Contact us for more information.

Contact us
Find out more about DKF Fund

You will learn:

  • A deeper connection of the body and voice when acting on stage
  • Confidence to be fully present on stage when speaking Shakespeare's language
  • An understanding of the forms and structures that support the actor’s emotional, visceral and cognitive imagination
  • The skills necessary to authentically deliver Shakespeare’s language with accuracy, specificity, and clarity of thought
  • A renewed trust in yourself as a theater artist
eduction_actor_programmer

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