Introduction To Acting

Mondays, January 25-March 22. 6:30-9:30. Week off TBA. 6:30-9:30 PM. 8 Weeks. $210 This is a fundamental course for anyone interested in acting on stage or screen. It focuses on basic skills using exercises, improvisation, monologue work, and scene study. Some work outside class is required, but no prior experience is necessary. You'll finish the class prepared for more in depth training and your first auditions-and you'll have a great time along the way. Most recently, Mark Peckham directed To Kill a Mockingbird and Orpheus Descending at2nd Story Theatre in Warren, RI. Other recent credits include performing in Buried Child at Boston's Nora Theatre Company and Trinity Rep's A Christmas Caro. Other directing credits include Line for Perishable's Women's Playwriting Festival, On the Verge, Full Hook-up, Talking With..., Anything Goes and The Unnamed. He has worked extensively as an acting teacher and theatre instructor with Providence College, RISD, 2nd Story Theatre, All Children's' Theatre, Mr. Peckham was co-founder and co-artistic director of Wickenden Gate Theatre in Providence.