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Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) is a multidisciplinary school that offers training to playwrights, actors, and directors from all over the world. With a focus on nurturing emerging artists and providing them with developmental opportunities, ESPA has become a trailblazer in performing arts education and collaboration within the Primary Stages and greater New York theater community.
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The Science Behind the Libretto with Marsha Norman
With both an intuitive and a practical approach to a libretto’s unique dramatic structure, Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman will lead the class in an examination of classic and contemporary musicals. Marsha’s hands-on training of her peerless, award-winning technique will provide both musical theater writers and those artists interested in the form an intimate glimpse at the process of a master storyteller. Students should be well...
Storytelling Structure
What is it you want to say with that play? What perspective do you bring to the piece to make it uniquely yours? And, most importantly, why are you working on it in the first place? This 6-week seminar forces you to examine all of these questions in order to approach every play with the goal of telling this story right now and for this reason. With Tessa LaNeve, Director of ESPA and freelance dramaturg, you’ll look at work from Vince Gilligan to...
Workshop: Grad School Audition Bootcamp
January marks the beginning of a time that is both exciting and intimidating - Grad School Audition Season. In this 2-day workshop, director Jackson Gay will discuss tactics for auditions and interviews, as well as coach your audition pieces, so you can lead with confidence and give the most prepared performance possible. This workshop might be for you if you are: Applying for grad schools this year and want to refine your audition. Looking to...
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Online: Ensemble Devising- Making funny Theater
In our current world, the need for togetherness is profound. As artists, one of the best ways for us to build community is through letting go of the traditional (and currently impossible) ideas of theater making and instead creating collaboratively from the ground up. In this class, you will spend 8 weeks making funny theater. Led by expert deviser and professional clown Zack Fine, you will use games, ensemble-building exercises, and improvisation...
Online Acting: Hand-Written Monologues
Admissions Qualifications Successful candidates must participate in and pass an audition before registering for this program, schedule an audition at the "Request Info" submission above. All registrations are subject to approval by The Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts. In this 5-week class with Primary Stages Associate Artistic Director Erin Daley, she will pair you with a working playwright and you'll collaborate to develop and write...
Acting for Zoom
With theaters around the world closed indefinitely due to the Coronavirus, many companies are turning to digital streaming for readings and productions. But acting in plays on Zoom isn't quite film-acting and it's not quite what you might do on an actual stage. Acting on Zoom requires different techniques and the ingenuity of the actor to bring their characters to life in the small boxes of these streaming platforms. In this 5-week course taught...
Dialects 2: The Midwest
Dialect and accent are defining qualities, infusing your character with an indication of geography, time period, socio-economic background, culture, and individual personality. Actors often take shortcuts to quickly imitate a dialect in an audition situation, but the key to mastering any dialect is learning the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). In this 6-week class, Jane will teach you IPA and then apply it to various British accents. You will...
Screenwriting: Getting Your (Second) Act Together
Full Course Name: Screenwriting Workshop: Getting Your (Second) Act Together The main enemy for the protagonist is the antagonist. The main enemy in writing a screenplay is the infamous Second-Act Problem. Meet your foe head on in this 2-day workshop, and explore strategies for developing a problem-proof premise and conflict. With Kate, you will take an in-depth look at how to excite your audience with a hero who is challenged along a meaningful...
Rage Structure And Tradition
So you want to write a play. Is it going to be sweet? Pretty? Urbane? If so, take another class. During this 2-day workshop with Robert Askins, Tony Award-nominated author of Broadway’s deliciously devilish Hand to God, we’re going to explore our rage. This class might be for you if you: Are angry, disappointed, almost livid. Love works like Blasted, Look Back in Anger, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In this class you will: Talk about...
Clowning with Chris Bayes
Get ready to rediscover your playful spirit and the simple pleasure and ferocious generosity of performance. In this workshop, you’ll pursue the clown in all of its messy and hilarious beauty. Way beyond “being funny,” clowning is a way to check your inhibitions at the door, banish dread of failure, and open yourself up to the potential of delight. According to Chris (who contributed the movement to The 39 Steps on Broadway), “Clown is a...
Dialects 2: Texas
As part of our Primary Stages-wide celebration of the Centennial Celebration of Horton Foote’s birth, we’re bringing Dialects 2 to the Lone Star State. With a landmass larger than most European countries, Texas is flush with sub-dialects, such as those from the Panhandle, Rio Grande Valley, East Texas Swamps, and Dallas High Society. Led by real-life Texan Jane Guyer Fujita, you’ll study these regional differences, developing authentic, grounded...
Seeing Between the Lines - God Said This
The dramaturg's job is to read between the lines and enhance a script with specificity and accuracy. This 1-night workshop will teach you to watch and read a play from the perspective of a dramaturg and see what you've been missing. With your eyes opened, you'll be able to incorporate dramaturgical practice into your work as a writer, actor, or director. This workshop might be for you if: You would like the ability to translate what you see on...
Improv for Non-Improvising Actors
For many actors, improv can be incredibly intimidating, but applying the quick-on-your feet, “yes and” improv skills to your everyday practice makes you more flexible in the audition room and a more open scene partner. This workshop isn’t about games, competitions, or “being funny.” It’s about gaining tangible skills in a non-competitive environment. Kelly Buttermore and Justin Peters, who tour the country as a comedy duo performing...
Kickstart Your First Draft with Abe Koogler (Online)
Whether you're battling writer's block, are intimidated about bringing your first 10 pages into class this semester, or are just trying to spark inspiration during this pandemic, this 1-day workshop will help you kickstart your new play. This workshop might be for you if: You're a playwright with a seed of an idea that you'd like to explore in a fun, intensive situation. You’re taking our First Draft class this semester and feel overwhelmed...
Text Analysis with Cusi Cram
Being able to break down a text is the key to unlocking the secrets of your character, allowing you to make the most substantial choices and ask the most effective questions. Cusi Cram (playwright, actor, and stage and film director) will offer practical advice on how to build a character with what’s been given, how best to use rehearsal time, and what to do when nothing is working. Prior to the workshop, you’ll be expected to read a script,...
Pilates and Body Awareness for Artists
This course is a fitness-based class for the looking to get in touch with their instrument on a practical level. This class might be for you if: You are any type of an artist or theater professional (performer, writer, singer, artist, administrator, etc). Are at any level of fitness. In this class you will: Be exposed to a Pilates-based movement technique specifically designed by your instructor to fine-tune your understanding of your own...
The Musical Audition Combo Platter
In a musical theater audition, you are expected to showcase your singing abilities and prove your dramatic chops in under a minute. This requires a command of your craft and the ability to move your audience. In this 7-week class, Tony Award winner Randy Graff will help you develop the tools to personalize a lyric and tell a story through full songs and then apply that technique to your 16-bar cuts. Covering traditional musical theater, rock, and...
Dialects 1: British
Dialect and accent are defining qualities, infusing your character with an indication of geography, time period, socio-economic background, culture, and individual personality. Actors often take shortcuts to quickly imitate a dialect in an audition situation, but the key to mastering any dialect is learning the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). In this 6-week class, Jane will teach you IPA and then apply it to various British accents. You will...
Online Class: Writing for Zoom
With theaters around the world closed due to COVID, many companies are turning to digital streaming for readings and productions. But plays that are written for the stage do not always translate when they're done on Zoom. Playwriting for Zoom is a brand new art form, with its own rules, limitations, and (yes!) advantages. It isn't the first art form that's arisen in response to the constraints of a particular moment, and it won't be the last. In...
Online Class Analysis Through Action- Prelude to Etudes
Primary Stages ESPA @ Zoom, New York, NY
This class is for directors or interested theater-makers of all levels to explore the first half of the rich (and still little-known in the U.S.) Russian theatrical pedagogy known as Analysis Through Action. Pioneered by Stanislavsky in his later life, ATA is roughly made up of two components: Reconnaissance of the Mind and Reconnaissance of the Body (the generative improvisatory work known as “etudes”). In this class, you will explore...
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