Studio Program

Note: This class will be offered in-person at The Tiffany Center – 1410 SW Morrison St. Suite 501 (5th floor)​

May 7 – June 25, Tuesdays (7 classes) *No class on May 21st*
6:30pm – 9:00pm

Instructor: Sarah Lucht
Who is this class for: Level II or III
Prerequisite: Acting Foundations or equivalent class or performance experience
Cost: $250

This eight-week course will focus on the exploration of scenes from modern (20th and 21st century), realistic plays, assigned by the instructor. This class will emphasize tactics for connection and character revelation, contact with the actors’ emotional life, as well as in-depth text analysis of the assigned scenes. Students will develop their listening and responding skills, apply Stanislavski’s fundamentals, and engage with the art and craft of acting while expanding their own range of expression and creativity.

Some outside work will be required.

TA110b: 1 Unit Credit
Professional Development Clock-Hour Credit Available

Enrollment capacity: 8

Note: This class will be offered in-person at The Tiffany Center – 1410 SW Morrison St. Suite 501 (5th floor)​

April 22, 29
May 6, 20, 27
June 3, 10
Mondays (7 classes)
6:30pm – 8:30pm

Instructor: Michael Mendelson (with guest instructor Amanda Vander Hyde)
Who is this class for: Level III
Prerequisite: Interview/conversation with the instructor
Cost: $250

This is a 6-week course that will explore the intricacies of intimacy work in scene study. This is a process class for intermediate and advanced actors. This class will not only focus on the nuts-and-bolts of scene study but primarily focus on the moments of intimacy in our work. reading through the moment or moments, understanding the story being told, choreographing the intimate work and finally playing it. We are always working off of what our scene partner is offering while engaging the actor’s imagination with a strong belief in the given imaginary circumstances. We will spend time exploring a visceral “impulse-response” and the implications and impact that has on the emotional life of the scene. That said, the work of the intimate moment never changes. It is an agreed upon moment that we will find together.

Some outside work will be required.

To register, please email Michael Mendelson at mmendelson@pac.edu to set up a prerequisite interview.

Enrollment capacity: 8

Note: This class will be offered in-person at The Tiffany Center – 1410 SW Morrison St. Suite 502 (5th floor)​

May 13, 20, 27
June 3, 10, 17
Mondays (6 classes)
6:30pm – 9:00pm

Instructor: Darius Pierce
Who is this class for: Everybody
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $230

This six-week course will focus on comedic scene study and monologues. Students will have the opportunity to work on two comedic scenes (assigned by the instructor) and one comedic monologue (selected by the student). This class will explore script analysis for comedy, finding individual comedic rhythms and sensibilities, and grounding performances in traditional scene and character work in order to find comedic potential.

Some outside work will be requested.

Enrollment capacity: 8

Note: This class will be offered in-person at The Tiffany Center – 1410 SW Morrison St. Suite 501 (5th floor)​

April 20 – May 25, Saturdays (6 classes)
10:00am – 12:00pm

Instructor: Kristen Mun-Van Noy
Who is this class for: Everybody
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $210

Intro to stage combat is the exciting exploration of how to tell stories through stage combat. In this class we will go over the basics of unarmed stage combat, which will cover the skills needed to fall safely, communicate with your scene partner, and every variation of the stage slap. Then we will evolve those skills and explore how to fight with (stage) knives and found objects.

Training will cover these weapons: Unarmed, Knife (provided by instructor), Found objects

Enrollment capacity: 8

Note: This class will be offered in-person at The Tiffany Center – 1410 SW Morrison St. Suite 501 (5th floor)​

May 20, Monday *ONE DAY WORKSHOP*
6:30pm – 8:30pm

Instructor: Amanda Vander Hyde
Who is this class for: Everybody
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $35

Ever wonder what encompasses staged theatrical intimacy and its process? Join Amanda Vander Hyde as she discusses her work as an Intimacy Choreographer and how she works to create risk-aware and consensual artistic spaces. This encompasses cultivating a culture of care and promoting holistic resiliency practices so artists can continue their work in an ethical and efficient way. 

This workshop will include:

1) How to build risk-aware and consensual artistic spaces

2) Discussion of power dynamics and why artists struggle to say no

3) Applied exercises to cultivate physical and emotional personal boundaries

4) Building and acquiring self-care and resiliency tools

5) Advocacy tools for various points of the rehearsal process 

Amanda has training through Theatrical Intimacy Education and Intimacy Directors and Choreographers. She is also a certified Artistic Mental Health Practitioner and trained in Mental Health First Aid.

Enrollment capacity: 20