Students will learn techniques and a process to create a believeable character and will be encouraged to combine these methods in a way that best suits their own acting journey. Textwork, vocal, physical, and emotional exercises will be included to flesh out the character on the page into a living person with a life on the stage or on the screen. Learners can grow to better understand and practice the valuable skill of "doing the work" of acting and character development. 

I'm a homeschooling momma with a Fine Arts Degree in acting from FSU and professional experience working and volunteering in the NE Florida Arts community as an actor, consultant, and drama teacher. I've been developing characters varying from Cinderella, Lady MacBeth, The Queen of Hearts, to the Wicked Winter Witch in a Christmas show we put on yearly. I'm a voiceover artist for podcasts, a script consultant, and have 25 years of experience developing characters!
I also work at a private school as an Extended Day Teacher, substitute, and tutor. I love teaching acting because I believe "Anyone can act!" they just have to be willing to commit and give from their heart and soul.

Homework Offered
Students may practice exercises outside of class, develop a character on their own to share, however this is optional. They may workshop a monologue at home to share with a group and we will evaluate and discuss character choices. I expect students to spend 1-2 hours weekly to practice.  Outside work could include reading the play their monologue or character is from, studying the text for clues, memorizing and rehearsing a monologue, character history sheets, and/or employing taught exercises for practice.
1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
 Students are always asked to state what worked and what could improve. I believe every performance has something good and something to work on in the future...this goes for beginners to advanced actors. We are all a work in progress. Students will not be graded but participation is the measure of success.
Grades Offered

I will utilize exercises from Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting and various acting techniques. Text from the play based on Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will be used as well as text from A Midsummer's Night Dream, the play within a play found in the Folger Shakespeare library. Act 1 scene 2: https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/a-midsummer-nights-dream/read/1/2/