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INTRO TO ACTING FOR ADULTS, SUMMER 2024

Have you ever thought about auditioning for a show but weren't sure what's required or how to prepare? Been tempted to try acting for the first time - or to return to it - and see if you want to explore it further? Wondered how to develop a character and approach the text of a script?

This 6-week, 2 hours/week course offers a safe, fun, collaborative, and constructive space for adults to learn about and build confidence in acting. It provides hands-on, learning-by-doing that will help you to:

Build confidence to audition for a show
Gain experience to strengthen or to start an acting resume
Understand what opportunities exist locally for dipping your toes into acting
Prepare one or more potential audition pieces
Get practice performing in front of a group

Class sessions are on Wednesdays from July 10th through August 14th, from 6:30-8:30pm at the Ovation! studio at 600 Ericksen Ave NE, Suite 103. Tuition is $250, and financial assistance is available: please email info@ovationmtb.com to inquire.

MATT ELDRIDGE, Teacher

Matt's background includes film/TV, theatre, voiceovers, commercials, improv, and modeling. He's been featured in spots for T-Mobile and AT&T, and has performed in over a dozen stage productions in the Seattle area, including as Max in Ovation's "The Sound of Music" last December. Most recently, Matt appeared in the feature film "Ingress" (2022), series pilot "Uprising" (2022) and series "Hetero" (2022). He has earned recognition as Best Actor in a Non-musical (Hon. Mention) and Best Actor in a Musical (Hon. Mention) by the west Puget Sound newspaper, the Kitsap Sun, for his performances in "Glengarry Glen Ross" (Roma) and "A Christmas Story: the Musical" (The Old Man). He studied drama at Stanford, and co-founded both the Stanford Improvisors and Seattle's Improsia.

KENDRA TRUETT, Teacher

Kendra has been involved in many types of performance including theatre, independent film, voiceover, burlesque, singing telegrams, singing in bands and a cappella groups, improv, and (gulp!) even reality television. One of her favorite opportunities was teaching theatre to English language learning students with the La Jolla Playhouse and Arts for Learning in San Diego. With degrees from the Academy of Art University and San Diego State, she was also a theatrical set designer and photographer for many years. She was a co-founder of the theatre group, the Poolhouse Project, and Crazy Mother Independent Film Productions and enjoys writing plays and screenplays. She has always loved working with other actors, especially when it comes to audition preparation!