Character Study: An Actor’s Approach to Creating a Role

Catalog description

This course will be a scene-study acting class built upon a deep dive into the character’s past, their behaviors, and the tactics they use to get what they need. This course will be a dynamic, on-your-feet approach to the text that leads to vital and compelling characters. Students will play a variety of roles from contemporary plays and adaptations and across a range of styles and forms. We will also watch and analyze movies to determine how actors create characters on film and will read aloud short scenes from plays that students suggest as a way of introducing a variety of playwrights and their distinctive characters. Open to serious students who have taken Actor’s Workshop (