"Is there no play,
To ease the anguish
of a torturing hour?"
2024 SCENE STUDY CLASSES
Interested?
Contact info@visionbox.org for more information
and to set up an audition/interview.
Limit 16 actors per class.
Some financial aid/work study available upon request.
Shakespeare's Plays
Pictured: Visionbox members
Kian Way and Skye Palmer as Othello and Desdemona in All the World: Outdoor Shakespeare Festival
Shakespeare's Plays
TUITION
Five Weeks and Performance - $500
Payment plans and limited scholarships available.
To avoid processing fees checks are also encouraged.
Actors are encouraged to attend Playwrights and Directors classes for no additional charge
Shakespeare's Plays | Jan. 8th - Feb. 8th 2024
Performance February 8th
ALL CLASSES HELD AT: 7108 E Lowry Blvd, Denver, CO 80230
This class is an advanced acting class, but can also be taken by students earlier in their careers and actor training. John Barton’s Playing Shakespeare is the textbook for this sequence. Rules of scansion, articulated thought, and complex character will be some of the focus of this intensive. All students will work on soliloquies and sonnets initially, before moving into scene study from the Shakespeare canon. There will also be an introduction to the development of solo performance pieces. Students will select one character from Shakespeare, and create a 20-30 minute 1-person performance piece with a minimum of 50% of the text from a Shakespeare play, and the other 50% coming from original writing, novels, poetry, film, and other plays. These solo pieces will be produced in a full production in the summer of 2023 in the Greek Theatre in Civic Center Park. Anyone taking this class will have an opportunity to submit material for the production in June.
All new actors must submit a headshot and resume to info@visionbox.org and will audition with Artistic Director Jennifer McCray Rincón and the Visionbox team.
Classes are Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 6pm - 9pm.
ALL ACTORS: Monday 6pm-9pm
Group A: Tuesday 6pm-9pm
Group B: Wednesday 6pm-9pm
Contemporary Plays of the Last Decade
Pictured: Hillary and Clinton by Lucas Hnath
Contemporary Plays | Feb 12th - March 14th 2024
Performance March 14th
6pm-9pm at the Cactus Club of Denver
1621 Blake St, Denver, CO 80202
ALL CLASSES HELD AT: 7108 E Lowry Blvd, Denver, CO 80230
This class will focus on scene study from plays written in the last decade by American playwrights including but not limited to, Mike Bartlett, Lucas Hnath, Tracy Letts, Gary Owen, Sarah Ruhl, Lynn Nottage, Paula Vogel, and John Patrick Shanley. These writers’ works are rarely (if ever) performed in Colorado, but they epitomize contemporary American playwriting, often addressing current social issues and also exploring a combination of styles, including realism as well as different approaches to language structure and non-realistic storytelling. The Actors’ 5 Questions will continue to be studied in the context of these important new works and help actors expand their experience and knowledge of current playwriting and production.
All new actors must submit a headshot and resume to info@visionbox.org and will audition with Artistic Director Jennifer McCray Rincón and the Visionbox team.
Classes are Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 6pm - 9pm.
ALL ACTORS: Monday 6pm-9pm
Group A: Tuesday 6pm-9pm
Group B: Wednesday 6pm-9pm
American/British Comedy
Pictured: The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl
American/British Comedy | March 18th - April 18th
Performance April 18th
6pm-9pm at the Champa Studio at the DCPA
1245 Champa St, Denver, CO 80204.
ALL CLASSES HELD AT: 7108 E Lowry Blvd, Denver, CO 80230
We will be looking at American and British Playwrights including Tom Stoppard, Martin McDonagh, Caryl Churchill, Neil Simon (The Odd Couple), Christopher Durang (Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike), Sarah Ruhl (Clean House, & The Melancholy Play), David Mamet, Tony Kushner, Bella and Samuel Spewack (Boy Meets Girl), Harold Pinter, and possibly some work on comedic Shakespearean scenes and monologues. This class will examine the Actors’ 5 Questions in the context of American and British comedies. While classes always focus on character transformation, and the playing of objectives and actions, like Shakespeare class, there will be some in depth examination of more technical skills and text analysis necessary to play comedy at a high level, i.e. comic timing, given circumstances, comedy of character, comic language, comic play structure, irony, and physical comedy.
All new actors must submit a headshot and resume to info@visionbox.org and will audition with Artistic Director Jennifer McCray Rincón and the Visionbox team.
Classes are Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 6pm - 9pm.
ALL ACTORS: Monday 6pm-9pm
Group A: Tuesday 6pm-9pm
Group B: Wednesday 6pm-9pm
Archetypal Acting
Pictured: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht at Williamstown Theatre Festival Directed by Peter Hunt, Assistant to the Director Jennifer McCray Rincon
Archetypal Acting | April 22nd - May 23rd
Performance May 23rd
6pm-9pm at the Champa Studio at the DCPA
1245 Champa St, Denver, CO 80204.
ALL CLASSES HELD AT: 7108 E Lowry Blvd, Denver, CO 80230
This class will look at plays by Bertolt Brecht and The Greeks by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander. Archetypal Acting will move actors away from psychological realism, to the playing of archetypes. Joseph Campbell’s writing and analysis of mythology in literature will also be studied in the context of Brechtian acting. The class will prepare actors who are interested in performing in Visionbox’s scheduled production of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht to be performed at the Greek Theatre in Civic Center Park (6/16 & 6/17). This production will open our summer training and production work for 2023.
All new actors must submit a headshot and resume to info@visionbox.org and will audition with Artistic Director Jennifer McCray Rincón and the Visionbox team.
Classes are Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 6pm - 9pm.
ALL ACTORS: Monday 6pm-9pm
Group A: Tuesday 6pm-9pm
Group B: Wednesday 6pm-9pm