From Page to Stage:
Crafting Your Solo Performance Piece
Do you have an idea for a creating a solo performance piece, but don’t know where to begin? Have you made a good start, but somehow lost steam or hit a road block along the way? Do you suffer from performance anxiety?
Creating and performing your own work is uniquely rewarding, but it can be overwhelming, too. In this workshop, Susan Poulin will share her story, plus tips, tools, and techniques she’s developed in nearly thirty years of creating and performing solo work. We’ll identify obstacles that get in our way and explore new methods of working. Whether you’re developing a ten minute story or a full length show, you’ll leave this seminar with a variety of tools to help you jump start your creative process and bring your project to fruition.
You’re Not In It Alone:
Performing Your Monologue
Monologue is a unique art form, one that breaks many of the conventions of traditional theater. It’s liberating, rewarding, and harder than it looks.
In this workshop, Susan Poulin will share tips, tools, and techniques she’s developed in her nearly thirty years of performing solo work. We’ll explore ways to add texture, vary tone and pace, and bring multiple characters to life. We’ll experiment with tools to help you harness and maintain your energy, deal with performance anxiety, and stay out of your head. Whether you’re working on an audition monologue or solo performance piece, you’ll leave this workshop with practical techniques for taking your performance to the next level. Please bring a monologue for us to work on.
For more information, contact Susan.
207.384.4526