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.
Spring Classes 2021
Twelfth Night
Students will dive into performing this classic story of a shipwreck, separated twins, and mistaken identity. Our entirely virtual Spring Acting Intensives will consist of large and small group work, culminating in a recorded final performance for friends and family and an encore at the 36-hour Shakespeare-a-thon during Give Local.
Grades 2-5—9:30am-11:30am
March 13- April 24 (No class on April 10)
Shakesperience Zoom
$300 (scholarships available for low & moderate income families in the Greater Waterbury area)
Summer Classes 2021
Details TBD
Grades 2-5—9:30am-11:30am
Stay Tuned!
Autumn Classes 2020
The Gift of the Magi & Silent Night
by O. Henry, Emily Mattina, & Jacob Green
Students perform with their instructors in classic holiday tales of giving.
Grades 2-12 (Dates for 2021, soon)
October 19 – December 7, 2020
(no class on Saturday November 30)
9:30am-11:30am
Shakesperience Studio
$300 (scholarships available for low & moderate income families)
Winter Classes 2021
Gulliver's Travels Students will dive into performing this classic story. Our entirely virtual Winter Acting Intensives will consist of large and small group work, culminating in a recorded final performance for friends and family.
Grades 2-12
(Dates for 2021, soon)
9:30am-11:30am
Shakesperience Zoom
$300 (full-scholarships available for low & moderate income families)