The Workshops
Practical craft for actors who have done the work before.
Current Sessions
Audition Intensive
$200This four-week intensive focuses on audition process, callbacks, cold reads, screen tests, and adaptability under pressure.
Participants will work through multiple styles of audition environments, emphasizing strong choices quickly, responding to direction, maintaining focus under pressure, and understanding how different audition environments function.
Designed for actors looking to strengthen both performance and professional audition skills.
Focus Areas
- Cold Readings
- Open Auditions
- Closed Auditions
- Callback Adjustments
- Screen Test Simulations
- Partner & Role Rotation
$50 non-refundable deposit required. Remaining balance of $150 due before the first class.
Performance Workshop
$300This eight-week workshop explores scene work, rehearsal process, casting dynamics, collaboration, and performance preparation within a community theatre-style environment.
Participants will work with rotating scene partners and may be reassigned roles throughout the process to encourage adaptability and collaborative problem-solving.
The workshop is designed to help actors better understand not only performance, but how productions are built from both sides of the table.
Focus Areas
- Scene Work
- Rehearsal Discipline
- Adaptability
- Collaborative Performance
- Casting Adjustments
- Practical Production Process
- Ensemble Work
$50 non-refundable deposit required. Remaining balance of $250 due before the first class.
The Curriculum
Cold Reads & Auditioning
The first read is where most actors lose the room. This workshop is about making it the moment you win it.
You walk into a room with material you have never seen. You have minutes, sometimes seconds, to make choices that land. Most acting training treats the cold read as a preliminary exercise. Here, it is the discipline. We work on sight-reading technique, making strong initial choices under pressure, using the physical space of the audition room, and understanding what the people behind the table are actually looking for. Every session includes live cold reads with real-time direction and adjustment.
The callback is where the real work happens. You have already shown them something they liked. Now they want to see if you can take direction, adjust on the spot, and demonstrate range without abandoning what got you called back. This workshop focuses on the specific skills of the callback room: listening to adjustments and incorporating them immediately, making bold choices that show range, reading the temperature of the room, and understanding when to hold your ground and when to pivot. We simulate multi-round callback scenarios with varying direction.
Callbacks & Adjustments
They called you back. Now show them you can take direction and still be the strongest choice in the room.
Rehearsal & Collaboration
The strongest individual choice means nothing if it breaks the ensemble. This is where you learn to work inside the process.
Most acting instruction focuses on the actor alone. But theatre is collaborative. The rehearsal room is where individual preparation meets the demands of ensemble, director vision, and the live negotiation of shared storytelling. This workshop addresses how to take direction without losing your instincts, how to adjust your performance to serve a scene partner, how to contribute to a rehearsal process productively, and how to make choices that elevate the work around you. We work through rehearsal simulations where the emphasis is on responsiveness, generosity, and the discipline of serving the story over the ego.
The strongest choice you can make is the one that makes the other actor better.
The Format
Small group sessions in Downtown Hartford. Each workshop is built around live exercises with real-time direction, not lectures or scene study from a textbook. Groups are kept intentionally small so every actor works in every session.
These workshops are designed for adults with prior theatre experience. You do not need to be a professional, but you should be someone who has been in a rehearsal room before and wants to return to that level of work.
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