Acting Intensives
Learn Acting from Working Actors
Shakesperience proudly offers Saturday and Summer Acting Intensives in our Waterbury Studio and beyond. We deliver 7-week sessions in winter, spring, and fall, with week-long sessions in summer. Our professional resident artists instruct students aged 7 to 17 in the Shakesperience Approach. Students learn to develop action and character through text within a strong, socially responsive ensemble that takes ownership of the work. Students show significant long-term behaviours, including literacy, public speaking, individual and group work ethic, and positive outlook, attitude and self-expression.
Additionally, we offer private acting classes for all ages in our studio. See below, or contact us for information. For Saturday classes, scholarships available for low & moderate income families.
Autumn Classes 2021
October 2 - December 11 (no class on November 27)
Holidays in Waterbury. Highlighting the history as communities. Each student will describe their favorite Holiday experience, which will become a short script. All of our short scripts will be performed in our Acting Intensive Finale. Students are also invited to perform with local actors in our Holidays in Waterbury evening performances, the week after our Finale.
Grades 2-12 , 9:30am-11:00am
$300 (scholarships available for low & moderate income families)
Join us for a unique Holiday show. Featuring the voices of the young and the old in our community. Our Acting Intensive (AI) students, local actors, and even guest stars will perform in a variety of short scenes created from stories told by these voices. Some stories represent personal histories from our AI students. Other stories include historical fiction from people that lived in and around Waterbury. Community members are encouraged to submit stories and/or audition. Maybe your story will be included!
Grades 6-12, 11:30am-1:00pm
$300 (scholarships available for low & moderate income families)
Winter Classes 2022
January 8 - February 19 (snow date February 26)
A New Play. Come join us to perform in this new play written with local author Shelby Davis. This play explores a world of mythical monster bullies and shows how one boy learns to befriend them. Students will work collaboratively to build an ensemble and explore different perspectives.
In Person: 9:30am-11:30am
Monologue/Audition. This class will focus on honing audition skills for young actors. Each student will work on a contemporary monologue and their choice of a classical monologue or a song.
Virtual: 12:30pm-2:00pm
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$300 (scholarships available for low & moderate income families)
Spring Classes 2022
March 12- April 30 (no class on April 16)
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare’s tale of mistaken identity, of good intentions gone awry, of mystical forces and their effects on mortal life, of love won and lost and won again. Students explore territory between dreams and reality as the production proceeds through the Athenian court, the lawlessness of the forest, and the disconcerting randomness of the dream state. These entirely In-person Spring Acting Intensives consist of large and small group work, including a recorded final performance for friends and family and an encore at the 36-hour Shakespeare-a-thon during Give Local.
9:30am-11:30am
Students must be masked.
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$300 (scholarships available for low & moderate income families)
Summer Classes 2022
Details TBD
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