Adult Acting Classes
Theatre Aspen School Spring Adult Acting Class
Fundamentals of Comic Acting
Are you ready to laugh? Better yet, are you ready to make other people laugh? Theatre Aspen School presents its Adult Acting Class – Fundamentals of Comic Acting. This 8-week course for adults (17+) will emphasize improv, comic timing, and comic characterization in the first half, and comic scene work in the second half. Build your confidence and skills in a fun and supportive environment. Can’t commit to the full 8 weeks? Sign up for one four-week session.
Instructor: Graham Northrup
Dates: Thursdays; March 15 – May 10 (No class March 29)
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Tuition: $150 (first or second 4-week session: $75)
Call Graham Northrup at 925-9313 x203 to register.
About the Teacher
Graham Northrup is a teaching artist with extensive teaching experience from children and youth to adults. He currently serves as Theatre Aspen's Director of Education and Outreach where he directed the teen conservatory productions of The Curious Savage and Disney's Aladdin. He received his MFA in Directing from Baylor University, directing such shows as All My Sons, The Woman in Black, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Macbeth. As a theatre educator Graham has directed a variety of styles and genres, including the theatre-for-young-audiences piece Wiley and the Hairy Man, the tragedies The Trojan Women and The House of Bernarda Alba, and the zany comedy-thriller Arsenic and Old Lace. As an actor, Graham was most recently seen on stage in Theatre Aspen's reprise of Annie as FDR and Aspen Community Theatre's production of 1776 as John Adams. He has had roles such as Warren the Mailman in Bruce Graham's Moon Over the Brewery, Father in Stephen Schwartz' Children of Eden and King Hamlet in Shakespeare's Hamlet. He is also a voiceover artist with extensive experience in narration for training.
