Ages 18+

Tuition $125.00

AUDITION REQUIRED, placements are by invitation or audition only and limited to 10 individuals.
Please email Jen Stockwell-Fortner for and audition slot.

These advanced level acting classes for seasoned, professional actors, will focus on the works of one playwright being presented at Boise Contemporary Theater during the corresponding season. This year, we will dive into the works of Sam Hunter. 

Participants will be asked to read a play prior to the start of the first class. Classes 1 and 2 will focus on a discussion of the playwright, his voice and style, production history, recurring themes and evolution throughout his career. This common table work will give us a shared language and understanding of the motivations, objectives and world of Hunter's unique characters and stories. Classes 3, 4, 5 and 6 will be dedicated to scene study - using scenes from Hunter's plays. Session 7 will be a showing of those scenes, open to the public and to invited guests. 

In an effort to support our community of working artists, this class will be discounted from its normal $200 fee to $125. 

Ages 18+

Tuition $160.00

Instructor Joe Golden

There are many plays that feature characters speaking dialects (and accents within those dialects). Dialects aren’t just the way people speak from countries outside of our own (Ireland, England, Germany, etc.), but also the way people from different regions within our own country speak (Southern, Eastern, New England, Upper Midwest, etc.). This course will aim to reveal methods and resources for actors to study and perform convincing dialects for stage and screen purposes.

Ages 7 - 11

Tuition $250.00

It's Theater Lab but YOUTHIER! Our newest program for younger playmakers is dedicated to the proposition that kids are capable of more than we expect. That they have a story to tell and that it’s important to listen. Students make brand new short plays from scratch and each six-week session will culminate in a performance for family and friends.