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Characters
6 week program

Characters

Expand your improvisational skills by exploring character creation, physicality, emotional expression, and relationship dynamics. Create memorable and distinctive characters that inform the scene and connect with the audience through our shared humanity.

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Course Content

Shelton Theater

$320 tuition · $295 Early Bird through September 3

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  1. Session 1

    Character Creation

    Explore the importance of creating strong, memorable characters and the possibilities that come with embodying another perspective. Understand what makes a strong character choice in relation to the other players.

  2. Session 2

    Relationships and Subtext

    Characters do not exist in a vacuum. Explore your relationship to other characters with various dynamics and statuses. Discover the depth of your characters in their relationships with different people

  3. Session 3

    Voicing your character

    Find your characters from the voice. Explore various ways to discover and create different personalities, attitudes, and expressions that dramatize and project your character.

  4. Session 4

    Movement and Physicality

    Inhabit your body and create characters from the outside in. Create an entire personality from a single tick, a quirk, or a way of walking. Explore the world at your fingertips by creating a character from movement.

  5. Session 5

    Emotional Range

    Allow your characters to expand their breadth and depth by trying on a wide range of emotions. Explore the expression and effects of different emotional ranges and the effects they have on other characters.

  6. Session 6

    Character Scene Integrations

    Bring together all the lessons of the program to play classic performance games that leverage the multitude of characters in your infinite repertoire. Transform into multiple characters in an instant and become whoever the scene needs

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