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What is Teen acting? Offering beginner-intermediate classes for ages 15-18. Dive into acting with theatre games, scene study, physicality, and in-depth character development.
Why This Program? Whether this is a first introduction to acting or you're a seasoned performer, these programs strive to give you a secure, confident, and joyful relationship with acting, with real-time feedback.
Why is it helpful: Acting is invaluable for fostering a variety of life skills, including self-confidence, persistence, teamwork, and creativity. We learn to work together, how to give and take, and how to share our ideas in front of others. We also experience the joy of seeing our creative ideas come to life.
What will we do? We always begin classes with a warm-up to get us used to the space and each other. We learn performance vocabulary, play focus and team building games, and learn how to assess the circumstances. emotions and physicality of a character. We will work on a variety of scenes and monologues from stage and film
Highlights: Fun, in-depth, exploratory, and creative. We get to really dig into the heart of performance and character exploration, as well as how to differentiate our characters' physicality from our own.
Curriculum, Objectives, and Outcomes:
Curriculum, Objectives, and Outcomes:
Overall:
What is acting? Play games to warm us up and get us used to each other, and be ready to play and use our imaginations.
The anatomy of a stage, eg, ‘upstage’, ‘downstage', ‘stage left’ ‘a set’ ‘the orchestra pit’.
Theatre and screen vocab, eg, ‘DP’, ‘ADR’, ‘pickup’, ‘blocking’, ‘close up’, ‘stage directions’, a ‘stage manager’
Knowledge of acting methods, including Demidov, Laban, etc.
Learn what a monologue is vs a scene, and how to approach each.
What is a ‘cold read’, and how do we approach doing one?
Understanding of the elements of a script and character development outside of the scene, eg, where were they before the scene? What would their favorite food be?
Internal vs external character thoughts: What do they really think of what is happening in the scene, and is what the character is outwardly showing the same as what they are thinking in their head? ,
Confidence in embodying a character in front of an audience,
Physicality as a character, and making it different from our own.
Intro to Animal Studies, a method of using the ways animals move to inform our character's physicality.
How to prepare for an audition, and what an audition might look like.
Finding joy in the “curiosity, not ambition” of acting, and knowing part of theatre is making mistakes and being bold in our choices, even if we end up being redirected by a director.
Ability to gently evaluate and critique peers and oneself, to foster critical thinking, an artistic eye, and ever-developing artists and performers.
Ability to collaborate and create scenes together, where they listen to and value each other’s input.
Confidence in their own creativity, imagination, and ability to work with others collaboratively.
Classes:
Classes:
✨Fall 2025 Classes:✨
Acting:
Jump into acting with scenes, monologues, and some improv. Work on movement exercises such as Laban and animal studies, and get personalized and tailored feedback on your performances.
WEDNESDAYS, @ Thousand Oaks Teen Center.
TIME: 8:00-8:55 pm | AGES: 14-18 | LENGTH: 6 weeks | DATE: November 5 - December 17, 2026 | PRICE: $192
FRIDAY @ Ventura, Date and time TBA.
✨Winter 2026 Classes: ✨
Acting:
FRIDAY @ Ventura, Date and time TBA.
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