Acting for the Stage

ACTING FOR THE STAGE
w/Performance Showcase
WEDNESDAYS, 7–9:30pm, Feb 5 – Mar 11
4 Corners Community Collective, 1508 Haultain Street

Want more experience performing in front of an audience? During each class you will perform for your classmates, and at the end of the 6-week session we will perform a selection of scenes in front of a live audience of friends and family.

Students will be assigned defined characters to rehearse in class in the form of monologue and dialogue scenes, and then offered actionable critique to help them better their work.

Character Development: Acting for the Stage is recommended for performers who want a deeper understanding of the complexities of character building, script breakdown, scene study, stage blocking and memorization techniques, and keeping ones focus in front of an audience. Students will be provided with actionable, practical, and expedient methods to solve the performance-related challenges faced by every working actor, whether on stage or on screen.

The course objectives are to give students the necessary skills required to solve the most fundamental problems associated with the development and presentation of a character for an audition or a performance, and to offer more experience performing in front of an audience.

The only prerequisite for this course is to have a keen interest in acting. Students will be required to bring a notebook and pen/pencil and must wear comfortable clothing that will not inhibit movement.

We will work with you at your own level. So whether you are new to this, or you are already a working actor, this course will help you advance your acting and book that role you are after.

ACTING FOR THE STAGE
w/Performance Showcase
WEDNESDAYS, 7–9:30pm, Feb 5 – Mar 11
4 Corners Community Collective, 1508 Haultain Street

$195(no tax) –– Space is limited, secure your seat by e-transfer to grahamseytheory@gmail.com. Please include name of student and email address. Please note that refunds, partial refunds and make-up classes are not offered.

Testimonials
“Graham has an unconventional head-to-tail approach to acting — he is able to create a teaching environment that feels safe to explore one’s individuality while celebrating the value of the team dynamic. Graham is one of the most caring and insightful teachers I have ever worked with.” — Fletcher Donovan, A Million Little Things (ABC), Supernatural (FX Network), Unspeakable (CBC/Sundance TV), The Man in the High Castle (Amazon Studios), DRINK, SLAY, LOVE (Lifetime)

“From the diversity of roles I played in the class, coupled with Graham’s guidance, I can definitely say I feel more confident as an actor.” –– Bobby Cleveland

Biography
Graham McDonald is an actor’s director. He is also a co-founder of Grahamsey Theory, a boutique independent film production company in Victoria, BC. He is known for his hands-on and personal style of teaching and directing. Actors feel comfortable around him and he gets results. He has been producing independent film and theatre for over 20 years. His recent directing credits include: Norman – short film (SHORT CIRCUIT: Pacific Rim Film Festival 2019) Seat of My Pants Productions, Crown Appointed Counsellor – Grahamsey Theory (an ongoing improvised feature), Death – music video for August Mountain, Year-end Performance Project: Demo Reels with Ramsey Fendall, Things We Said Today by Neil LaBute – The Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts, Bent by Martin Sherman – Victoria Refugee Initiative, Goers Art Project (short film), Autobahn by Neil LaBute – The Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley – Belle & The Tide, Lear by Edward Bond – The Victoria Academy of Arts, Runaway by Mika Laulainen – Theatre SKAM, Siblings (short film), the operas Cosi fan tutte by Mozart and Don Pasquale by Donizetti – Fear No Opera, Blackbird by David Harrower, The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh, The Crackwalker by Judith Thompson, Shining City by Conor McPherson, Pornography by Simon Stephens, The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, The Caretaker by Harold Pinter, The Life Inside by J.F. Tait (AD) – The Belfry, Swimming to Cambodia Spalding Gray, and Moscow Stations adapted from the novel Vendict Yerofeev by Steven Mulrine, which had its off Broadway debut in NYC. Graham has taught locally at VAD Arts, Kaleidoscope Theatre, and Theatre Inconnu. He has worked as a teacher and acting coach for the past 16 years.

TIMES & DATES

WEDNESDAYS, 7–9:30pm, Feb 5 – Mar 11