TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Improvised Soap Opera – 13 week class
with Paul Hungerford
In this innovative class, you’ll build your ensemble and shape the world where your soap opera unfolds. Over the 13 weeks, we’ll form a Chem-Lab Ensemble and explore various soap opera styles, drawing inspiration from classics like As The World Turns, Young and the Restless, The Bold and The Beautiful, Dallas, Dynasty, Dark Shadows, and more!
Throughout the class, we’ll delve into a spectrum of soap opera techniques, including emoting, melodrama, gossip, character secrets, character archetypes, relationships, romantic scenes, affairs, love triangles, history, narrative development, and the creation of explosive drama. We will learn to end scenes, and build tension. We will learn to black out a scene with questions, discovery, and heightened emotion!
The culmination of our journey will be the creation of live shows where we seamlessly incorporate all the elements we’ve explored over the coarse of four live shows at Outside In Theatre.
Training History
SITI Company in LA Workshop 2021
In August of 2021, Outside In produced an in-person workshop for the first time since the pandemic. OI has an ongoing admiring relationship with SITI Company, its member artists and the artistic training they offer in Suzuki & Viewpoints. OI produced a week-long training workshop led by SITI Company members Ellen Lauren, J.Ed Araiza, Will Bond and their Associate Violeta Picayo. Through the generosity of an anonymous donor to SITI Company as well as the allocation of funding from OI, many of the participants were offered artists grants to make sure equitable access to this fantastic training was assured after being in pandemic lockdown for over a year. It was the first time for many of the participating artists that they had been in a room with a group doing physical training since March 13, 2020. The room was focused and electric with joyful energy at being able to collaborate with fellow Los Angeles based artists. The success of this workshop solidified OI’s determination to make accessible theatre training part of our ethos. We were very lucky and grateful to be able to rent Stomping Ground LA for the workshop as they too were just starting to re-open after a long closure of their beautiful facility.
SITI Company in LA Workshop 2022
We were able to bring back SITI Company for a final workshop before their company closed at the end of 2022. This time we had Company members GM Gianinno, Stephen Webber and Associate (and Los Angeles based artist) Melissa Coleman-Reed leading the week-long workshop housed at Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. We were again able to offer partial grants and discounts to returning artist participants, making equitable accessibility a priority. The level of artistry and collaboration in the room was inspiring and soul satisfying for the artist participants. We ended the training week with an open to the public demonstration and discussion of the trainings.
Future opportunities
Improv – Short Form and Narrative
More info coming soon!
Acting Workshops for all
More info coming soon!
New Work Development
More info coming soon!
OBS training
Outside In seeks to support the development of artists and technicians in the growing world of theatrical digital hybrids and will offer this training in community with Support Black Theatre. We want to support the goals of Black theatre-makers and create more opportunities to increase the pool of Black and POC technicians. Through this training, we hope to demystify online streaming and empower every participant to walk away with the ability to run OBS for their own projects. For more information email contact@outsideintheatre.org.