Bethesda Workshops
The Rehearsal
Develop your craft with us.
The Rehearsal is a continuous workshop that Bethesda Repertory Theatre provides once a month. These sessions offer a chance for artists to meet, collaborate, and work on original & published works. Our goal is to provide a space to create with other professional artists. Many of our Company members meet during these workshops, but we also open our doors to fellow artists who have an insatiable passion for discovery and demand for truth, camaraderie, and integrity. These sessions were born out of a need to create. Artists have gaps in between projects, non-artistic work to endeavor, auditions, and life in general. We offer other actors, writers, and directors a chance to consistently and actively work on their craft.
The Rehearsal IS NOT a class.
- There is no fee to participate in The Rehearsal as Bethesda Repertory fiercely believes that if any artist is willing to further their curiosity in their craft, our sessions should, consequently, be accessible and free.
- Each member of The Rehearsal is expected to come prepared with their text buried & interpreted, ready to work in a fully realized capacity, open to critique by discussion, and above all, willing to grow and push oneself.
- Participation in these workshops is limited, as smaller groups lead to more in-depth exploration, and ample time to work with your artistic team for the evening.
- The Rehearsal lasts from 3 to 4 hours, depending on group size and studio availability.
All Actors are welcome regardless of race, color, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or Actors' Equity status. We do require our artists to be 18 years or older to participate.
Storytelling Through Movement
Find your emotional truth through Motion
Actors will learn to deepen their work through a meaningful and explorative physical approach. Through movement-based exercises and tools, Zoë will help you find more confidence in your body and new paths to discovering your character. This 3-hour course will assist you in unlocking a newfound freedom and autonomy as a storyteller.
Those with all levels of experience are encouraged to attend.
This Workshop is Free to attend.
Instructor--Company Member:
Zoë Papia
All Actors are welcome regardless of race, color, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or Actors' Equity status. We do require our artists to be 18 years or older to participate.
Venue:
Madilyn Clark Studios
10852 Burbank Blvd
Advanced Acting
Find yourself in the work
As artists, we are disruptors of the status quo and act as tangible reflections of our past, current, and future communities. We hold power to account through our work, which then, has to power to change the lives of those who absorb it.
Being an artist, demands being susceptible to the human condition, without impediments. Those avenues, that abhor or make consumers shake their head and say, “I can’t imagine being in that circumstance,” or, “I don’t know how they can live with themselves! They’re monsters!”, is what we do for a living—we go into the emotional fire and turmoil and not way. There is an inherent curiosity for understanding these messes and unmentionables that live within us…there should be—there must be. Are you truly prepared to step into these roles when called upon? Can you authentically live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances that not only honor the text, but the countless lives and experiences they represent?
Through exercises, paired scenes, and one on one scene work & monologues, we will explore these very notions and demand ourselves to be as truthful as we command ourselves to be.
Those with advanced & professional levels of experience are encouraged to attend.
This Workshop is Free to attend.
Instructor--Company Member & Artistic Director
Andrew Rudy Galindo
All Actors are welcome regardless of race, color, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or Actors' Equity status. We do require our artists to be 18 years or older to participate.
Venue:
Glendale City Church
610 E California Ave
Glendale, CA 91206