Classes & Workshops
ADULT WORKSHOPS
We are pleased to continue offering adult workshops this season. Watch for additional workshops and classes coming soon!
Developing Your Acting Career Returns!
The Ridgefield Theater Barn is thrilled to be able to offer this adults-only acting class again this season, taught by Susan Grace Cohen of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
Among Ms. Cohen’s former students: James Gandolfini (Sopranos), Linda Hamilton (Terminator 1 & 2) Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark), James Spader (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Boston Legal, Race), Melora Walters (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Big Love), Steven Buscemi (Fargo, Sopranos), Mel Harris (thirtysomething), Justin Chambers (Grey’s Anatomy), Heather Juergensen (Kissing Jessica Stein) and Sarah Burns, (I Love You, Man).
With John Strasberg, son of the late Lee Strasberg, Ms. Cohen owned and operated a private acting studio in New York City, Paris, Barcelona and Madrid. She coaches principals for Broadway, Off Broadway, film & television. She was honored to represent the United States in the work of Lee Strasberg, at the Metodi Festival in Tuscany, where guest master acting teachers and directors from throughout the world were represented.
She is author of Bridging the Gap, Student to Professional Actor, and is a contributing essayist to the online newspaper, Soul of the American Actor. Recently, Ms. Cohen received the James L. Hearst Guest Lecturer Award in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa. She has led acting workshops at Pace University, Miami Dade Community College and The Bank Street College of Education.
Instructor: Susan Grace Cohen
Session: 8 weeks (2 hours per week)
When: Start date postponed one week
Thursdays, May 10th through July 5th, 2012
All classes from 6:30-8:30 pm
NO CLASS on May 31st
Cost: Members: $320, Non-Members: $340
All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges. In the event of a cancellation of the classes for which there is no rescheduled date, a refund for this registration fee may be issued at the option of the Theater Barn.
Please be sure your registration is submitted at least one week prior to the start of the session so the information is received in time for Ms. Cohen to plan for your participation in the class.
Once you have a paid reservation in Developing Your Acting Career with Susan Cohen, please COMPLETE THIS FORM to provide your contact information.To assure that every student receives adequate attention, class size is limited to 14 students. This is an adults only course; minimum age 18. All levels of experience are welcome.
NEW ADULT CLASSES AT THE BARN!
Fundamentals of Improv
The coach and director of the RTB's wildy successful in-house improv comedy troupe "Role in the Hay Players" is offering classes in Improv at the Barn!
The classes are 8 weeks long, and will end with a performace at the RTB for friends and family.
If you like the show Whose Line is it Anyway? then these courses are right up your alley. Many of the techniques employed in improv are based on teamwork concepts. In addition to the humor, improv can improve your ability to "think on your feet," and has been known to help with public speaking and assertiveness.
Special Offer!!! FREE Sample Class....Try Before You Buy!
How would you like to try improv for free? Have we got a deal for you! We are offering a FREE one-hour sample of an improv class on Sunday, January 22 at 6:30pm! No sitting allowed in this class – you will be up on your feet, participating and learning the whole time, and best of all you will have fun! This sample is free to the public, but you need to register so that we know how many people to expect. Walk-ins are welcome, but seats will fill up fast!
In addition to being a founding member and coach of the RITHP for almost five years, Rick trained with the Gotham City Improv in NYC and performed in their ensembles for two years (a group of the famous LA Groundlings who moved to NYC and started a school). He has also been training with the Upright Citizen's Brigade in NYC (a group that was stated in part by Amy Poehler from Saturday Night Live, graduates from which are appearing in The Office and major motion pictures). Rick recently directed Godspell at the Barn, the highest grossing show in the history of the RTB!
Instructor: Rick Hodder
Session: 8 weeks (2 hours per week)
When: Sundays, beginning February 12 and running through April 1, 2012 from 6:30-8:30 pm
Cost: Members: $320, Non-Members: $340
MUSICAL THEATER WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG PERFORMERS
Our Youth Musical Theater Workshops showcase student actors ages 8-18 and teach them to shine! Classes meet two days a week for instruction in musical-theater performance with the Barn's dedicated and talented staff of theatrical and educational professionals. Directed by Missy Slaymaker-Hanlon, the workshop culminates in student performances that are open to the public. We've had rave reviews from our young thespians who now refer to themselves as 'The Theater Barn Kids'.
"THEATER BARN KIDS" SPRING WORKSHOP
This season we are pleased to present the eighth in our series of Broadway, Our Way workshops and live productions. Created by Missy Slaymaker-Hanlon, known to her adoring students as Miss Missy, the Broadway series is popular with our young thespians and adults alike. Designed to highlight the talents of each child and to celebrate American musical theater, the familiar tunes will have us singing along with the kids.
Broadway Our Way Café
a delicious musical revue
Directed by Missy Slaymaker-Hanlon
Musical Director Stefano Peña
February 25th ~ May 3rd, 2012
Eight-week workshop meets twice weekly with rehearsals on Saturday
includes student performances open to the public
ALL CLASSES SOLD OUT
Thank you!
Wednesdays
3:30-4:45 Ages 12 and up (Cast 1 and 2)
4:45-5:45: Ages 8-11 (Cast 1)
Thursdays
4:45-5:45: Ages 8-11 (Cast 2)
AND
Saturday Rehearsals
to be scheduled; not all students called to every Saturday rehearsal
Casts 1 and 2
Cast 1~ 9:30 am -11:45 pm
Cast 2 ~ 10:45 am -1:00 pm
Tuition for 8 week session:
Members $350, Non-Members $370 for child #1
Members $300, Non-Members $320 for child #2
Members $250, Non-Members $270 for child #3
REGISTER Today!
REGISTER today! Limited to 8 students.
Student Performances
Broadway Our Way Café
May 4th – 6th, 2011
open to the public
All Tickets : $12
Theater Style Seating
