ACTING Classes
- Private Acting [1 hour]
- Weekly one hour lessons training imagination, mind, body, and voice for the actor and applying to monologues. Great for audition preparation!
- Private Acting [1/2 hour]
- Weekly half-hour lessons training imagination, mind, body, and voice for the actor and applying to monologues. Great for audition preparation!
- Private Alexander Technique [45 minutes]
- Weekly 45 minute lessons that explore ways to release unnecessary muscular tension and redirect that energy for more flexibility and ease in the body and voice. Identify physical habits and experience a new choice that may allow for more successful singing, dancing, acting and living.
- Acting Elements Class (ages 12-18)
- This course will begin investigating and learning the art of Acting from different sources and techniques, with primary focus on the basics of the Stanislavski Method. We will explore and gain a better awareness of the body, breath, and voice connection. While also discovering what elements and actions are necessary to keep that connection fluid to maintain a healthy, artistic, instrument.
Faculty
- Marya Spring Cordes
- Ms. Spring received her BFA and MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and is a member of Actors' Equity Association (AEA) and American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (AFTRA). Marya is a certified Alexander Technique teacher (Alexander Alliance, USA) and has performed with The Human Race Theatre, Dayton Opera, The Arden Theatre Company (Philadelphia, PA), Commonwealth Musical Stage (Va Beach, VA), Stamford Center for the Arts (Stamford, CT), among others. Marya is the Artistic Director of The Puzzle, in New York City and assistant professor of Acting and Movement in the Professional Acting Training Program at Wright State University.