More About Theatre Craft Education

Youth Acting Classes, click here to sign up

Acting lessons are helpful to young people on many levels. They support local theatrical groups in their endeavors to develop new generations of actors. They help people of any age learn more about themselves, gain confidence and practice in effective communication, move outside of self-focused insecurities to focus more on others and the world around them, and develop speaking skills, all essential for our next generations of community members and its leaders. We want to develop young leaders and responsible community members in the hopes that they will want to stay in and contribute to our community rather than emigrate elsewhere after high school. Classes will include learning stage direction, line delivery, voice projection, and character development. Instruction also includes techniques from various acting methods, monologue work that may also be developed as audition pieces, scene study to interact with other actors, script analysis, and uses of acting in public speaking and career building.

Adult Acting Classes, click here to sign up

We provide acting lessons for novice or experienced actors. The actors will discover the combination of techniques and methods that work best for them, including instruction in representational vs presentational acting, Stanislavsky’s “The System–The Art of Experiencing”, The Method, and Uta Hagen’s method from New York’s HB Studio. Actors will practice monologues that may also be developed as audition pieces, practice dialogue in scene study to interact with other actors and build character development, and practice analyzing a script. The study of acting helps one perform in plays for the community; use the voice and body to better communicate, prepare for job interviews, contribute one’s voice at public meetings, effectively work with clients, improve business presentations, enhance public relations skills, and many other benefits to one’s career and community life.

Acting Workshops

THP will provide actors with support in learning their lines in any current production they’ve been cast and to provide auditioning practice and tips for those hoping to be cast in upcoming shows. This serves to support our local theatres.