Your character wants you, badly. They just don't know it yet. Actors come ready to take over, nail the performance and change the room. You'll perform pieces live and discover how to seduce every character you take on (quickly and completely). The pieces are original, the blood is real and none of the kisses are faked.

An action-style workshop focused on analyzing and, ultimately, arriving at a character. Via several scenes, we will combine elementary Stanislavski system elements (tools) with basic directing principals that young performers can adopt and reuse when starting a new project.

Test your skill at auditioning for commercials. Think you can walk, talk, eat, and drink now learn how to do that on camera while showcasing a product. Learn to give enough energy for the camera without being too much! Practice makes perfect in this workshop using real commercial scripts.

Learn skills, tips and tricks to make yourself shine in the Cold Reading process. Learn simple acting techniques to help yourself stand out in a short amount of time. Get your hands on age-appropriate scripts to help you grow in your auditioning ability.

Come work with a professional actor and acting professor on your college audition material. This workshop is specific designed for seniors who already have audition pieces, who need feedback and coaching. Must bring memorized monologue(s) and if singing, your own recording and equipment.

So, you want to study theatre at the next level? In this workshop we will discuss numerous models training, how to pick the right school for you, what a future Theatre Arts student might expect, and strategies for college auditions and interviews. Teachers are more than welcome, good for all HS levels, come with your questions!! Patrick Dizney is current Chair of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 7, Associate Chair of CWU Theatre Arts, and former President of the Northwest Drama Conference. He has worked in or with over 40 institutions of higher education in the field of theatre.

Stage Combat- Broad Sword

The Beginning Fundamentals of Stage Violence

Quick 3d models for set design

Explore the choreography performed by the cast of SFCC's spring musical! Community musical programs often include dancers with a variety of dance and non-dance backgrounds, so come and learn how you can work together and blend in no matter your level of advancement.

Original Bway Tap Choreography 1.0 & 2.0 Learn a section of an original Broadway tap break! For intermediate/advanced level tap dancers. Then come back to spruce it up and make it fancy in 2.0!

In this workshop we will be practicing adding high lights and shadows to drawing to add to the 3d form.

Ever thought This would be a great Improv Game but not sure how to set the parameters? This workshop is for you! We will show you the elements needed to build original Improv short-form games. Some Improv experience is recommended for this workshop.

We will explore how to add details to your scenes by creating an environment. Environment is not only location it includes everything that would define that location by using all your senses.

We start with high-energy Improv warm-ups. Then using basic Improv elements we will introduce, learn, and play through a selection of short-form games.

Fixtures- A hands on approach to using moving lights, led's, and other DMX effects in a show.

Learn how to effectively apply makeup for a character who is ill. Class will include discussion of physical manifestations of sickness and how to use makeup to convincingly play stricken characters for theatre and film. Demonstration and application. Come feeling great, leave looking horrible.

Learn how to use highlights and shadows to create characters through makeup. Learn brush techniques, blending, and application techniques to project the character to the audience.

A discussion and demonstration of FDM 3d printing and hand props.

The workshop will cover- -Managing Your Teacher: How to serve as an effective stage manager to an authority figure. -Managing Your Peers: When your crush needs a reminder to be quiet backstage and you're the one who has to do it.-Managing Yourself: Understanding your leadership style and being mindful as you respond to stress.

Want to know what it's like to actually be out on the road? This class will discuss more advanced stand-up techniques as well as give students a good idea of what to do if they are interested in pursuing stand-up as a career.

Quirky Playwriting Prompts from A to Z, Z to A and Everything in Between, With a Few Pit Stops at Q

Costume Ideas Unleashed: Hands-on workshop showing different techniques and mediums for generating and developing costume design concepts.

Shakespeare was a dramatic poet and used verse to deliver narrative. Baked into that verse are clues to help us identify the most important ideas. This workshop is an introduction to Shakespeare’s meter, focused on identifying and utilizing operative language.

Feeling stuck in a rut? Always at a loss in the same kind of scenes? Reached your improv plateau? This workshop will focus on the skills you want to improve.

An introduction to armed stage combat, learn basic attacks, defenses, and body movement to safely choreograph your own sword fight in this hands on interactive workshop. Be prepared to workout for this class.