Courses & Programs
The Theatre Lab offers the area’s most comprehensive theatre arts curriculum for adults, teens, and youth, most taught by the area’s finest theatre professionals. With both in-person and online classes in acting for the stage and screen, musical theatre, voiceovers, playwriting, directing, and drama criticism, you can shape a unique training program that is right for you.
Adult Classes: Read class policies. Apply for financial aid.
Youth Classes: Read class policies. Apply for financial aid.
Results
This exploration of both famous and not-so-famous acting methods may introduce you to the perfect approach to suit your style and goals - but it’s more likely to go beyond that, to help you create or clarify your own personal acting process from a broad and varied base of practical techniques. It’s part acting class, part stimulating book club: you’ll read and discuss what the great acting teachers of the 20thand 21st centuries have to say, and put each unique approach into practice with assigned scripts. (No rehearsal outside of class required.)
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Lights, camera, gift-giving! 🎬✨ Tis the season to give the gift of drama to your loved one! 🎁Purchase a Gift Certificate for someone to choose a class in the New Year. They are valid anytime and at any increment. Once the gift card is purchased, the prospective student can email us at contact@theatrelab.org to get registered.
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The Theatre Lab's Life Stories® Institute is an award-winning education program where you'll learn how to use the power of the arts to strengthen communities. In this highly interactive virtual training, you'll gain the teaching experience you need to develop and implement workshops that help people create original dramatic works based on their lived experience. Offered only once a year, this "train-the-trainer" program" is for anyone interested in amplifying the voices that too often go unheard in our society. No acting or teaching experience required. Tuition: $395. Aid available.
Please note: Only participants who have been officially admitted through the application process are eligible to enroll.
1 hour mentor coaching session with Theatre Lab faculty, to be scheduled at mutually convenient times between student and instructor. Get acting tips, career advice, and other guidance personally tailored to your needs and special interests.
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- Self-tapes, both with monologues and with sides using a reader
- Callbacks over zoom
- Setting up the space for filming
- Editing and sending auditions
- Techniques for dealing with nerves in front of the camera
- How to know when to stop doing takes and just send it!
No class 9/23/2025
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Student Level
Adults (18+)Contemporary Acting Methods (Online)
Instructor
Nathan Whitmer
Day
Mondays
Dates
Jul 21 - Aug 25
Time
7 - 9:30 PM
SESSION
Summer II
LOCATION
online
COST
$320
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Student Level
Gift Certificates
Lights, camera, gift-giving! 🎬✨ Tis the season to give the gift of drama to your loved one! 🎁Purchase a Gift Certificate for someone to choose a class in th...
MORE INFOSESSION
LOCATION
online
COST
$50
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Student Level
Adults (18+)Intro to Classical Acting (Online)
Instructor
Nathan Whitmer
Day
Mondays
Dates
Nov 3 - Dec 8
Time
7 - 10 PM
Learn the special skills required to perform Shakespeare and other pre-1800's dramatists well. This class will explore the unique ways voice, body, and imagination ...
MORE INFOSESSION
Fall II
LOCATION
online
COST
$320
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Student Level
Adults (18+)Intro to Estill Voice Training (Online)
Instructor
Steve Quintilian
Day
Sundays
Dates
Jul 20 - Aug 24
Time
11 AM - 12 PM
Estill Voice Training® (EVT), popular the world over, is for anyone who wants to understand and improve their speaking or singing voice—actors, singers, storytelle...
MORE INFOSESSION
Summer II
LOCATION
online
COST
$170
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Student Level
Adults (18+)Intro to Estill Voice Training (Online)
Instructor
Steve Quintilian
Day
Mondays
Dates
Nov 3 - Dec 8
Time
7 - 8 PM
Estill Voice Training® (EVT), popular the world over, is for anyone who wants to understand and improve their speaking or singing voice—actors, singers, storytelle...
MORE INFOSESSION
Fall II
LOCATION
online
COST
$170
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Student Level
Life Stories Institute 2025
Instructor
Deb Gottesman
Dates
Apr 3 - Apr 6
Please note: Only participants who have been officially admitted through the application process are eligible to enroll.
MORE INFOSESSION
Spring I
LOCATION
online
COST
$395
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Student Level
Adults (18+)Online Private Coaching
Dates
Jan 1 -
1 hour mentor coaching session with Theatre Lab faculty, to be scheduled at mutually convenient times between student and instructor. Get acting tips, career advice, ...
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Summer II
Fall I
Fall II
LOCATION
online
COST
$80
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Student Level
Adults (18+)Performing Monologues (Online)
Instructor
Sherri L. Edelen
Day
Thursdays
Dates
Jul 24 - Aug 28
Time
7 - 9:30 PM
Not an auditioning class! This online course treats monologues as performance pieces in their own right. Bringing out the best solo acting you’re capable of will of...
MORE INFOSESSION
Summer II
LOCATION
online
COST
$320
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Student Level
Adults (18+)Self-Tape and Virtual Auditioning (Online)
Instructor
Nathan Whitmer
Day
Tuesdays
Dates
Sep 9 - Oct 21
Time
7 - 9:30 PM
A course to help you master all aspects of virtual auditioning, an indispensable skill in the post-pandemic market for both stage and screen talent. No special equipm...
MORE INFOSESSION
Fall I
LOCATION
online
COST
$320
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Student Level
Adults (18+)Uta Hagen Technique II: Scene Work (Online)
Instructor
Marietta Hedges
Day
Thursdays
Dates
Jul 24 - Aug 28
Time
7 PM - 9:30 PM
A continuation of the Object Exercise work from our Uta Hagen Technique class, with a focus on scene work. Students will work on new exercises and apply Hagen's techn...
MORE INFOSESSION
Summer II
LOCATION
online
COST
$320