Actors' Lab
All people need a forum for self-expression, a vibrant place to grow and learn. Whether exploring spontaneity in an Improvisation class or portraying truth on stage in an Acting workshops, we come together, in the richness of the theatrical environment to explore the process of art, the movement of life. FST's professional teaching artists teach the Stanislavski method of acting, which embodies the belief that every person is a deep canvas where life experience, emotion and empathy paint the characters of life, thus bringing truth on stage.
Florida Studio Theatre is dedicated to nurturing the individual growth of each student. We encourage you to get to know our theatre and its mission, to view our production and classroom spaces and make a visit to our facilities to ensure your comfort.To schedule a visit, contact Pamela Smith, Education Administrator, at (941) 366-1350 or via e-mail at [email protected]
The staff is comprised of core theatre professionals trained to teach free of personal dictates. Our methodology helps each person find his or her own "door" to creative achievement. To read more about our instructors, click here.
2017-2018 Session Dates
Session I: September 25 - November 18
Session II: November 27 - January 27
Session III: January 29 - March 24
Session IV: April 2 - May 26
Session V: June 4 - July 28
Pamela Smith | Education Administrator
(941) 366-1350 - Education Office
www.floridastudiotheatre.org
E-mail: [email protected]
SESSION 4
BEGINNING APRIL 17
MONDAYS
Spoken Memoir | 11AM-1PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $99/4-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $149/4-week session (Enroll after April 10)
Musical Improv 401 | 7-9PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $199/8-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $249/8-week session (Enroll after April 10)
Improv 201: Finding the Funny | 7-9PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $199/8-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $249/8-week session (Enroll after April 10)
Acting Foundations | 7-9PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $199/8-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $249/8-week session (Enroll after April 10)
TUESDAYS
Improv for Everyone | 2-3:30PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $99/4-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $149/4-week session (Enroll after April 10)
Comedy Academy: Playback Theatre | 7-9PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $199/8-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $249/8-week session (Enroll after April 10)
The Actors Workshop | 7-9PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $199/8-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $249/8-week session (Enroll after April 10)
Improv 101: Intro to Improvisation | 7-9PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $199/8-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $249/8-week session (Enroll after April 10)
WEDNESDAYS
Reader's Circle | 12:30-3PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $99/8-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $149/8-week session (Enroll after April 10)
Comedic Storytelling 101 | 7-9PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $199/8-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $249/8-week session (Enroll after April 10)
Improv 601: Free-Form | 7-9PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $199/8-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $249/8-week session (Enroll after April 10)
THURSDAYS
Improv For Everyone | 2-3:30PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $99/4-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $149/4-week session (Enroll after April 10)
Sketch Comedy Writing 201 | 7-9PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $199/8-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $249/8-week session (Enroll after April 10)
Improv 301: The Game of the Scene | 7-9PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $199/8-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $249/8-week session (Enroll after April 10)
SATURDAYS
Improv 201: Finding the Funny | 1-3PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $199/8-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $249/8-week session (Enroll after April 10)
BEGINNING APRIL 26
Actors Studio Intensive | 7-10PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $149/4-week session (Enroll April 10)
Regular Price: $199/4-week session (Enroll after April 10)
BEGINNING May 15
MONDAYS
Spoken Memoir | 11AM-1PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $99/4-week session (Enroll May 8)
Regular Price: $149/4-week session (Enroll after May 8)
TUESDAYS
Improv for Everyone | 2-3:30PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $99/4-week session (Enroll May 8)
Regular Price: $149/4-week session (Enroll after May 8)
THURSDAYS
Improv for Everyone | 2-3:30PM | ENROLL
Early Bird Price: $99/4-week session (Enroll May 8)
Regular Price: $149/4-week session (Enroll after May 8)
SATURDAYS
Improv Drop-In *In-Person | 3-5PM | ENROLL
$15/session
For more information or to enroll, contact the FST School at 941.366.1350 or [email protected] or click the "Enroll" tab above.
2017-2018 Upcoming Workshops:
Session I: September 25, 2017 through November 18, 2017
Session II: November 27, 2017 through January 27, 2018
Session III: January 29, 2018 through March 24, 2018
Session IV: April 2, 2018 through May 26, 2018
Session V: June 4, 2018 through July 28, 2018
THEATRE APPRECIATION
Behind the Scenes at FST
This popular workshop pulls back the curtain and gives you a first-hand look at play creation! You will have direct access to the artists involved, from the director and actors to the designers and stage managers. You will experience the energy and excitement of the first read-through, dive deep into script analysis and design concepts, and track the detailed work of the artistic and production teams through rehearsals into fully realized performance. Step-by-step, the FST staff and professional guest artists will share their passion and process.
This workshop will include script analysis, context/concept/casting, production design, observing the first read through, observing and discussing selected rehearsals, observing a ‘studio run-through,’ and attending a dress rehearsal, panel discussions, and a backstage tour.
Fee: $149/ session
Reader’s Circle
Similar to a book club, except we focus on plays! Students read plays aloud, guided by FST Literary Management, and analyze the newest scripts, selected from FST’s Literary Department. A lively mix of discovery and discussion, Reader’s Circle gives students a peek at the new play development process.
Fee: $149/8 week session* $50 discount per session will be given to students who elect to receive scripts via email and read from a tablet or laptop.
THEATRE CREATION
Playwrighting Round Table
Do you have a script buried in your drawer, or have an idea for an incredible story or character that you want to see on stage? Then join the Playwriting Roundtable, and bring them to life! Utilizing writing exercises, table readings, drafting, editing, and rehearsal, you will refine scenes and short plays for a public showcase presentation on FST’s Bowne’s Lab Stage. Each 8-week session will also provide on-going reinforcement of playwriting basics, such as formatting, character, plot, and dialogue, while also focusing on specific playwriting “tool kit” topics, such as Writing in 3D, Humor and Comedy, the Aria, Adaptation, and Writing for Performers.
Fee:$199/ 8 week session
Page To Stage
Dive in to New Play Development! Page To Stage will include both playwriting students AND acting students who have gone through the No Fear Acting classes. Playwrights will bring in projects they are working on, and actors will be led in workshop readings, enabling the writers to do week-by-week edits and rewrites. The result will be a performance of brand new works by student playwrights and starring student actors on FST Bowne’s Lab stage!
Prerequisite: for playwrights, at least one session of Playwriting Round Table or equivalent experience, and for actors No Fear Acting 2 or equivalent experience.
Fee:$199/ 8 week session
THEATRE PERFORMANCE
No Fear Acting 1: The Monologue
As you start your No Fear journey, you will explore the cooperative expression of mind, heart, body, and voice. No Fear Acting 1 will empower your on-stage truth-telling (and by extension your off-stage truth-telling) by teaching script and character analysis, exploring emotional intelligence, and practicing physical and vocal exercises. Each student will prepare and polish a monologue for performance at the culminating Session Showcase.
No Fear Acting 2: The Scene
Intensify your truth-telling training by diving into scenework! Skills learned in No Fear Acting 1 will be reinforced and built upon, so that you find even more emotional accessibility, physical flexibility, and vocal expressiveness. Students will prepare and polish multi-character scenes for performance at the culminating Session Showcase.
Prerequisite: No Fear Acting 1 or equivalent experience.
No Fear Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s characters and speeches are some of the juiciest and most fun to perform in all of dramatic literature! You will learn to access the power of Shakespeare’s verse, and experience the joy of discovering the deep levels of emotional truth in Shakespeare’s language that can permeate every aspect of your life. Students will prepare monologues and scenes for performance at the culminating Student Showcase.
Prerequisite: No Fear Acting 2 or equivalent experience.
Flying Solo
Create and perform original solo theatre! Utilizing a wide variety of exercises pulled from autobiographical prompts, spoken word rhythms, stand-up comedy tricks, and storytelling structure, you will be guided in the creation and development of a 5-minute solo performance. You will then receive acting instruction to polish your presentation in the culminating Showcase. FLYING SOLO will introduce you to the thrill of one-person performance!
Expressive Speaking
The way you speak has a big impact on how others perceive you, both on stage and in your everyday life. Expressive speech boosts your credibility, enhances the impression of intelligence, and clarifies your emotions. In Expressive Speaking we will explore a series of vocal exercises designed to free your natural, authentic voice and to overcome some common voice issues like nasality, monotone, and speaking too softly. Each student will prepare and polish a piece of text to be performed at the culminating Session Showcase.
Acting for Improvisers
An acting class built specifically for improvisers! Enhance your improv with acting exercises designed to get you out of your head and connected with the audience, your scene partners, and the reality of the improvised worlds you are creating. Your improv will be even more effective once you deepen your responsiveness, sharpen your emotional intelligence, heighten your spontaneity, and gain a grasp of basic stage geography and acting vocabulary.
Prerequisite: Improv 101
Musical Theatre Tap
Musical Theatre Tap offers the opportunity for adults to dance in a stress-free and fun environment while learning moves to well-known musical theatre tunes. Through rhythm building exercises, this class is sure to get your bodies and feet moving.
Musical Theatre Jazz
Learn steps to popular musical theatre hits and build your acting skills as you take on characters in this Broadway-style dance class. Open to dancers of all levels, Musical Theatre Dance participants will learn ensemble formations and techniques while dancing in an enthusiastic and lighthearted environment.
IMPROVISATION
Improv 101: Intro to Improvisation
Discover the freedom of spontaneity! Focus is on playing together, making others look good, confidence, support, truth in comedy, and the basic tenets of “Yes, and…”. Under the guidance of our experienced Teaching Artists, every student learns they already have what it takes to improvise successfully both onstage and off
Improv 201: Finding the Funny
Continue to build on the fundamentals of improvisation. Students are introduced to characters creation, space work, and finding the game of the scene.
Prerequisite: Level 1 or equivalent experience.
Improv 301: The Game of the Scene
Move beyond short-form games and learn how to create strong open scene work. This workshop focuses on building fully-realized scenes by enabling students to play emotionally with their partner. Students will learn how to create characters, evolved relationships, and make honest choices that advance the scene.
Prerequisite: Level 2 or equivalent experience.
Improv 401: Intro to Long-Form
Develop and refine your ability to work in an ensemble. The FST Teaching Artist will help students put together a show that will be a culmination of the skills learned in the first three levels. This workshop will help students focus on strengthening scene work and building ensemble.
Prerequisite: Level 3 or equivalent experience.
Improv 501: Advanced Long-Form
Explore techniques of Long-Form Improv. Building off of Level 4, students explore a handful of core forms that highlight the impressive variety of approaches and structures available to advanced improvisers.
Prerequisite: Level 4 or equivalent experience.
Improv 601: Free-Form
Ready to take your improv to the next level? Now that you have the tools of Short-Form and Long-Form, let’s put them all together. Free-form is built on the concept of “follow the funny” and proposes that every single moment, beat, line and movement in a show can be deconstructed and used to lead you to the next scene.
Sketch Comedy
Students will be introduced to exercises and workflows to help with brainstorming on a topic, pitching ideas, writing a first draft, working with a collaborator, and delivering a final draft. In each level, students will actually get to write and perform their sketches in front of a live audience!
Learn the basic concepts and tools to make up songs on the spot. Students will sing solos, duets, and full-blown ensemble numbers confident in their own voice. No singing experience necessary. Workshops will be accompanied by a musician.
Prerequisite: Level 2 or permission of instructor.
Forever Improv
Do you enjoy the games played on Whose Line is it Anyway? or at our Saturday night FST Improv shows? Then this workshop is for you. Forever Improv focuses on playing and perfecting the high energy improv games that you love to watch and play.
Prerequisite: Level 2 or equivalent experience.
Improv Academy
Have you taken all of our Improv workshops and still can’t get enough? Improv Academy is for the advanced improv student that has been through all FST workshops, or has similar experience. Be led through advanced exercises and techniques designed to refine your skills as you step towards becoming a professional improv performer.
Prerequisite: Level 5 or equivalent experience.
Payment Policy
A $75.00 NON-REFUNDABLE deposit is required in order to register. The balance will be due 1 month prior to the start of the session. If your balance in not received by the due date, your registration will default. At that time, we will notify you and open the spot to other interested students.
If you have to withdraw after classes have begun, NO REFUND will be given.
You may enroll online by paying in full (the first $75 is NON-REFUNDABLE). To register with your $75 deposit, send an email to Pamela Smith. You will be contacted directly.
Please Note: If you are registering for multiple sessions online, please complete a separate transaction for each session. During the ticketing session, your class may be referred to as a performance. This is normal - please continue. If you do not receive a confirmation email or phone call within 48 hours, contact us directly at (941) 366-1350 to verify your enrollment.
If you have any problems registering, don't hesitate to contact our Education Administrator Pamela Smith directly at (941) 366-1350.
Scholarships and Financial Aid
The programs at Florida Studio Theatre are available to everyone. Scholarships and financial aid are available based upon financial need. For a scholarship application please contact:
Pamela Smith | Education Administrator
(941) 366-1350 - Education Office
www.floridastudiotheatre.org
E-mail: [email protected]