Building upon skills and tools learned in Beginning Acting, students will have the opportunity to delve deeper into character development and scene study while exploring new approaches to physicality and vocality. Special emphasis will be placed on encouraging students to make dramatically effective choices by playing provocative actions, discovering the event within the scene, and finding creative obstacles.
Instructor: Deborah Eubanks is in her 18th year at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and has been teaching directing and creating performance pieces for over three decades. She trained in theatre arts and communications in the UK at the University of East Anglia in Harold Pinter studios and is a San Francisco Diva Fest Playwright. Deb has been a director, writer-in-residence, and instructor at American Conservatory Theater, Sonoma State University, San Jose State University, and UC Berkeley. She is in her 17th year serving faculty at San Francisco Academy of Art University. She created and ran workshops with Stephen Hawking’s company at Covent Garden Arts Center, and teaches voice, acting technique, and the power of story. She leads corporate coaching workshops with clients including Meta, Tinder, The Times India, Great Place to Work, and the Holocaust Education Research Center. She specializes in DEI and vocal transitioning. She was a BBC guest to Ralph Fienne’s dialect coach, and Google Women’s summit guest speaker during the pandemic. Deb is a qualified registered nursing instructor, as well as a certified Myers Briggs and DISC facilitator, and she has taken on many acting roles during her career.
- Wed 7–9:30pm
4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27
$365
