Part Three: Advanced Acting Academy: The Diary of Anne Frank will focus on learning different acting techniques based on the teachings of great acting teachers like Constantin Stanislavski, Uta Hagen, and Standford Meisner.  These exercises will help students learn how to create a character, bring truthfulness to their performance, and to listen and respond well to scene partners. Students will be challenged to apply the acting techniques they learn to their performance of the play, The Diary of Anne Frank, at the Spring Academy Festival. 

About The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman: In this transcendently powerful new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit, and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence—their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. Each day of these two dark years, Anne's voice shines through: "When I write I shake off all my cares. But I want to achieve more than that. I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!" This is a new adaptation for a new generation.

The cost for Academy is $325 per session ($275 class tuition, plus an additional $50 fee per session for performance rights, artistic/tech team, performance space).

Prerequisite: Audition only - this class is ful!