Students will learn to research, understand, and find beats within the script. Students will be coached on physical, vocal, and emotional choices within the piece and grow to better enter into their acting work with greater honesty, clarity, and technical skill. Students will learn ways to overcome bad acting habits and blocks that prevent actors from being natural onstage or on camera. Students will learn the silent beats/thinking moments within the text that can add dynamic moments to their acting. Students will grow in using their innner creativity to bring their acting to life with unique choices that come from their own ideas. 

I am a homeschool teacher of 12 years with a BFA in Theatre from Florida State University. I've been acting since middle school and teaching/coaching homeschoolers in our area since 2010. I've lead acting workshops at film camps, homeschool groups, and have been a professional actor in Northern Florida since 2016 and also perform locally in community theater productions. I currently volunteer with a local Shakespeare for Homeschoolers group as an acting coach/consultant. I frequently judge our local English Speaking Union's Shakespeare Competition. 

I utilize multiple acting techniques taken from Stanislavski's An Actor Prepares, Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting, and How to Make Your Audience Fall in Love With You By Deryn Warren and Kristin Linklater's voice acting books. The students will not be asked to read these texts and although I may draw from their acting exercises the books themselves are not meant to be a textbook but a source for my own techniques that I will draw from as I coach them to improve their acting.