"Is there no play,
To ease the anguish
of a torturing hour?"
2023 FALL 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.
American Classical Realism
Pictured: Visionbox members
Jacqueline Garcia and Trevor Lyons as Lady and Val in Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams.
American playwrights | Sep. 5th - Oct. 5th
All classes are held at 7108 E Lowry Blvd, Denver, CO 80230
This class will focus on the work of American playwrights in the 1930s-1950s including but not limited to Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, William Inge, Clifford Odets, Lillian Hellman, and Lorraine Hansberry. Students will study the Actors Five Questions, the Visionbox technique based on the work of Earle Gister (Yale School of Drama 1980-1999). Each Actor will work on two scenes from plays of their choosing to be performed for a general audience and industry professionals at the end of five weeks study. This class is appropriate for actors new to Visionbox or returning actors. 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, Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm - 9pm.
ALL Attend: Monday 6pm-9pm
Group A: Wednesday 6pm-9pm
Group B: Thursday 6pm-9pm
TUITION: $500
(for five weeks of study and performance.)
Limited Scholarships Available
Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg
Pictured: Visionbox Production of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
European playwrights | Oct. 9th - Nov. 9th
All classes are held at 7108 E Lowry Blvd, Denver, CO 80230
This class will focus on the work of European playwrights Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, and August Strindberg, who created a revolutionary style of writing we have come to call Realism. Students will study the Actors Five Questions, the Visionbox technique based on the work of Earle Gister (Yale School of Drama 1980-1999). Each Actor will work on two scenes from plays of their choosing to be performed for a general audience and industry professionals at the end of five weeks study. This class is appropriate for actors new to Visionbox or returning actors. 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, Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm - 9pm.
ALL Attend: Monday 6pm-9pm
Group A: Wednesday 6pm-9pm
Group B: Thursday 6pm-9pm
TUITION: $500
(for five weeks of study and performance.)
Limited Scholarships Available
Shakespeare
Pictured: Visionbox members
Kian Way and Skye Palmer as Othello and Desdemona in All the World: Outdoor Shakespeare Festival
Shakespeare's plays | Nov. 13th - Dec. 7th
All classes are held at 7108 E Lowry Blvd, Denver, CO 80230
This class will focus on text analysis, scansion, and "articulated thought" in Shakespeare's plays. The textbook for this class is Playing Shakespeare by John Barton. Actors will work on soliloquies and monologues along with at least one scene with a partner to be performed for a general audience and industry professionals at the end of five weeks study. The class will also be an introduction to Solo Shakespeare projects in which Actors select one character from the Shakespeare canon to create a
20-30 minute one-person performance piece. This class is appropriate for actors new to Visionbox or returning actors. 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, Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm - 9pm.
ALL Attend: Monday 6pm-9pm
Group A: Wednesday 6pm-9pm
Group B: Thursday 6pm-9pm
TUITION: $500
(for five weeks of study and performance.)
Limited Scholarships Available
Registration information is pending. If you are interested in joining please email us at info@visionbox.org to set up an interview/audition.