Workshops, Creative and Performance
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The Point Loma Playhouse offers creative and performance workshops year-round. Our workshops are unique in that we invite all levels, beginner to the seasoned, to get on stage, learn through our educational staff and then culminate with a performance in front of a live audience. These workshops vary from two days to eight weeks. Within the structure of our education department, Point Loma Playhouse supports a positive, constructive, safe environment for the actor. Sign up on our mailing list to be informed of the next scheduled class.
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Acting Intensive Workshops
These intensive workshops develop your acting skills and uncovers new tools needed to be interesting and feel confident on stage. We utilize our talented directors to form an acting troupe from students enrolled in the class and bring everyone to their next performance level, the first day you get on stage! At the end of the workshop, you perform in front of a live audience.
These intensive workshops develop your acting skills and uncovers new tools needed to be interesting and feel confident on stage. We utilize our talented directors to form an acting troupe from students enrolled in the class and bring everyone to their next performance level, the first day you get on stage! At the end of the workshop, you perform in front of a live audience.
Improvisation Workshops
This course stresses basic skills such as focus, teamwork, character, and status - all of the things that, together, create great scene work. The core components of improv, listening skills & your ability to be "in the moment" are strongly emphasized. We build a solid foundation and develop a common language that ensures success. Students perform in a workshop with a plethora of fun improvisational games led by the instructor.
This course stresses basic skills such as focus, teamwork, character, and status - all of the things that, together, create great scene work. The core components of improv, listening skills & your ability to be "in the moment" are strongly emphasized. We build a solid foundation and develop a common language that ensures success. Students perform in a workshop with a plethora of fun improvisational games led by the instructor.
Musical Theatre Workshops
Explore Your Musical Theatre Talent. Learn Basic Fundamentals and Mechanics of Vocal Technique. Expand Your Vocal Range, Power and Confidence. Learn New Repertoire Both as a Soloist and in a Duet. Learn Fundamental and Effective Acting Techniques and Applications. Explore the fundamentals of Vocal Technique and Acting StageCraft.
Learn about "Vocal Health". Discover What "Building A Character" is REALLY All About. Apply the 5 Basic "StageCraft" techniques to Musical Text. Perform in front of a live audience.
Explore Your Musical Theatre Talent. Learn Basic Fundamentals and Mechanics of Vocal Technique. Expand Your Vocal Range, Power and Confidence. Learn New Repertoire Both as a Soloist and in a Duet. Learn Fundamental and Effective Acting Techniques and Applications. Explore the fundamentals of Vocal Technique and Acting StageCraft.
Learn about "Vocal Health". Discover What "Building A Character" is REALLY All About. Apply the 5 Basic "StageCraft" techniques to Musical Text. Perform in front of a live audience.
Playwriting Workshops
Playwriting 101 is a 6-week course designed for beginning to intermediate playwrights. The foundation of dramatic writing is characters in conflict, and during this workshop-style class you will learn about this and other basic dramatic principles in the only way you really can: by doing. You will write extensively, working with such concepts as character objectives and tactics, conflict, dramatic language and style in order to focus your dramatic vision and shape it into a completed short play. You will have the opportunity to share your work and receive extensive critique in a safe and supportive environment. More experienced writers are also welcome: everyone can benefit from getting back to the fundamentals!
Playwriting 101 is a 6-week course designed for beginning to intermediate playwrights. The foundation of dramatic writing is characters in conflict, and during this workshop-style class you will learn about this and other basic dramatic principles in the only way you really can: by doing. You will write extensively, working with such concepts as character objectives and tactics, conflict, dramatic language and style in order to focus your dramatic vision and shape it into a completed short play. You will have the opportunity to share your work and receive extensive critique in a safe and supportive environment. More experienced writers are also welcome: everyone can benefit from getting back to the fundamentals!
Screenwriting Workshops
This course will take the 3 acts of a screenplay and demystify these terms and keep it simple: nearly all narrative fiction (movies, TV, novels) can be fit into the template of these three acts. Narrative fiction follows the organic pattern of a human life—a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is why we are drawn to narrative fiction, whether movies, TV, or books. We all want an answer to the mystery of our lives, and we seek its reflection in entertainment. There will be brief discussion about the Greek idea of catharsis. We all want to vicariously experience narrative fiction, either to escape or help make sense of our own lives, and sometimes, in the best narrative, achieve both.
This course will take the 3 acts of a screenplay and demystify these terms and keep it simple: nearly all narrative fiction (movies, TV, novels) can be fit into the template of these three acts. Narrative fiction follows the organic pattern of a human life—a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is why we are drawn to narrative fiction, whether movies, TV, or books. We all want an answer to the mystery of our lives, and we seek its reflection in entertainment. There will be brief discussion about the Greek idea of catharsis. We all want to vicariously experience narrative fiction, either to escape or help make sense of our own lives, and sometimes, in the best narrative, achieve both.
Shakespeare Workshops
Summer "SHAKES" is a workshop for actors who want to explore Shakespeare in a fun, collaborative environment. The workshop culminates in performances of a Shakespeare play for the public. No experience necessary. Workshop Objectives: Begin with improving the actor’s vocal, physical and psychological instrument. Work on scenes through in-depth text analysis. Learn ways to activate texts in rehearsal and performance. Improve your monologue performance and emotional preparation. Identify and solve the particular demands inherent in period, character, style, and language. Use games and exercises designed to stimulate creativity, think quickly in the moment and encourage risk-taking. Create motivated characters in dynamic scenes as they work towards a culminating performance. Gain working knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays and language – verse, prose, meter, character and intent.
Summer "SHAKES" is a workshop for actors who want to explore Shakespeare in a fun, collaborative environment. The workshop culminates in performances of a Shakespeare play for the public. No experience necessary. Workshop Objectives: Begin with improving the actor’s vocal, physical and psychological instrument. Work on scenes through in-depth text analysis. Learn ways to activate texts in rehearsal and performance. Improve your monologue performance and emotional preparation. Identify and solve the particular demands inherent in period, character, style, and language. Use games and exercises designed to stimulate creativity, think quickly in the moment and encourage risk-taking. Create motivated characters in dynamic scenes as they work towards a culminating performance. Gain working knowledge of Shakespeare’s plays and language – verse, prose, meter, character and intent.
Stand-Up Comedy Workshops
This hilarious workshop gives you the tools you need to put together a bang-up comedy routine, while improving your public speaking, being a better MC, honing your comedic writing skills and improving your performance techniques. Whether you are brand new to Stand-Up Comedy or you would like to improve your act, this is the class for you. At the end of the 6 week session you will have a 5 to 7 minute “comedy set” that you will be able to perform in front of a "live" audience, anywhere, anytime, anyplace, and that's no joke!
This hilarious workshop gives you the tools you need to put together a bang-up comedy routine, while improving your public speaking, being a better MC, honing your comedic writing skills and improving your performance techniques. Whether you are brand new to Stand-Up Comedy or you would like to improve your act, this is the class for you. At the end of the 6 week session you will have a 5 to 7 minute “comedy set” that you will be able to perform in front of a "live" audience, anywhere, anytime, anyplace, and that's no joke!
