Acting for Improvisers - 4 week Master Class
If you have never studied acting for stage this class will give confidence in moving and speaking onstage. Whether you have taken classes and only just begun to perform or have lots of shows under your belt, over 4 weeks you’ll grow your basic acting skills and stagecraft. Explore stage pictures, proxemics and voice work, and how to make your characters believable and your storytelling truthful in a safe, supportive and fun atmosphere. You’ll need to prepare a 1-minute contemporary monologue ahead of time.
About Anne
Anne Pensalfini has a diverse range of performing experience in stage, film, and commercial work locally and abroad. Performance highlights include 18+ years of improvisational comedy for clients such as Disney, and acting credits for companies such as Queensland Theatre, and the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble where she was a Core member for 5 years. Extensive training in voice, movement, Shakespeare and improv, and degrees in Theatre and Education inform her teaching practice. Anne teaches for Big Fork Theatre, Impro Mafia, Queensland Theatre’s youth programs and Queensland University of Technology and has led acting courses for Griffith Uni and University of Queensland.
About Big Fork Theatre
Big Fork Theatre is dedicated to long form improvisation in the Chicago and New York style, as made famous by Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Mike Meyers. Big Fork primarily focuses on comedic improvisation.
Big Fork's teachers have many years experience both in teaching and performing, many of whom have traveled around the world to learn from some of the best improv teachers there are. Our teachers are committed to creating a fun and enriching environment to learn in and grow the Brisbane improvisational community.
COVID 19
Big Fork Theatre requires participants in our classes to be fully vaccinated and show proof of vaccination upon entry to the first class. Those with medical exemptions from their registered GP should send proof of this exemption to training@bigforktheatre.com ahead of the first class.
We will be conducting our classes in line with the latest social distancing guidelines and restrictions for COVID 19 (if any) in place at the time of the class. Students will be informed of any changes that may affect this class. It is expected that students will follow the teacher's instructions on social distancing and will not come to class when sick.