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In-Person Specialized Workshops
The Center for Actor Training typically offers a variety of specialized workshops throughout the year exploring a full range of disciplines including rhetoric, wit, clown, fight, voice, movement, public speaking, and more. Go to the ONLINE CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS page (click above) for details on our online programming.
PLEASE NOTE: For all in-person workshops, all participants and workshop staff are required to have completed a COVID-19 vaccine regimen (including a booster shot) and will be tested on-site for COVID-19.
Tuning Your Instrument
Just as a musician needs to tune their instrument, an actor must tune their body and voice. This two-day special workshop is a deep dive into Linklater Voice and Pure Movement practices to help you strengthen the connection to your instrument, and to develop an open channel for breath, sound and physical expression. This workshop is a great addition for those taking our Lenox weekend Intensive and a way for those familiar with the voice and body work to revisit the practices. All levels welcome.
DATES: April 20 & 21, 2023
SCHEDULE: 10am to 4pm each day
TUITION: $200 USD*
LOCATION: Shakespeare & Company, Lenox MA
HOUSING: Single occupancy dorm rooms available for $45 per night
FACULTY: Sheila Bandyopadhyay (she/her) and Ariel Bock (she/her)
Click here to apply.
*Discounted tuition ($150) available to those also attending the Lenox Weekend Intensive that begins on April 21 at 7pm.
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New York City Shakespeare Intensive
Created for the working actor but open to all theater professionals who are interested in practical study of Shakespeare, this workshop embraces the vibrancy and diversity of New York’s artistic community. During this five-day Intensive you will explore the use of Shakespeare’s text as a spring board for truthful, fully embodied, transformational acting. The workshop will include techniques for physical, psychological, and vocal freedom including, but not limited to, Linklater Voice work, Alexander Technique, monologue coaching, boundary work, and somatic mindfulness practices. Identity conscious conversation will be included to further your unique personal embodiment of Shakespeare’s language. Taught by Shakespeare & Company faculty and artists, this Intensive is an opportunity to develop your acting skills and work from a place of empowerment and expressivity.
DATES: May 10-14, 2023
SCHEDULE: 10am to 6pm each day
TUITION: $925 USD*
LOCATION: NYC (exact location shared after acceptance)
FACULTY: Sheila Bandyopadhyay (she/her), other teachers TBD
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Partial scholarships available for People of the Global Majority/BIPOC artists. Alumni, student, and union discounts also available.
*Early payment discount: Pay by April 10th and save $75.
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Butoh for Shakespeare: All the World's a Playground
During this weekend workshop you will experience and explore the avant-garde Japanese art form Butoh as a way of re-imagining Shakespeare texts. You will experience a new, deeply emotional, psycho-physical response to your own life and the texts, as you explore the infinite possibilities of your own instruments: body, mind, emotions, energy, and spirit. Our goal is to give those instruments free expression within a playful, creative space. This training will serve you as an actor or non-actor to live fully, not only on stage, but also in daily life.
No previous experience with Butoh is needed, just curiosity and an open mind!
DATES: November 4 and 5, 2023
SCHEDULE: 10am to 6pm each day
TUITION: $385 USD
LOCATION: Shakespeare & Company, Lenox MA
HOUSING: Single occupancy dorm rooms available for $45 per night
TEACHER: Yokko (she/he/they)
Click here to apply.
Scholarships available for People of the Global Majority/BIPOC artists. Alumni and union discounts also available.
From the Alumni
Maura Matarese
I attend at least one workshop at Shakespeare & Company each year as it always allows me an opportunity to grow as actor, to continue to free my actor’s instrument, to meet exciting new artists from around the world, and to spend time in an environment I love, with a faculty whom I deeply respect. more
Shakespeare & Company is a professional live theatre company in the heart of the Berkshires, presenting a vibrant summer performance season featuring the works of Shakespeare in repertory with classic and contemporary plays. The Company offers one of the most extensive actor training programs by a regional theatre in the country, and is also home to an award-winning and nationally recognized theatre-in-education program.