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Helps Build Confidence, Creates Empathy,Teamwork & Poise,
Reduces Stress, Tension, and more...
Helps Build Confidence, Creates Empathy,Teamwork & Poise,
Reduces Stress, Tension, and more...
THE "ACTORS LAB"
Ages 18 & Up
Summer Semester 24
7/10/24 - 8/28/24
$250 per 8 week session
Save $100 off when registering for both sessions
Embark upon a thrilling journey of personal development through creative exploration this summer!
Join us for our next exciting sessions in “The Lab,” where who you are and what you’ve experienced in life is fully accepted and respected as valuable and unique elements of effective storytelling. At NHAOPA, we meet you where you are, get to know you as an individual, work with you to pinpoint your goals, and facilitate your growth process as a budding artist and human.
The Actor’s Lab is the ideal choice for those who:
🎭 have aspirations for the professional stage or screen and are committed to taking active steps to move forward every day toward their goals
🎭 wish to pursue theatre as a fun and healthy hobby but aren’t sure where to start
🎭 are Interested in personal development and expansion of horizons
🎭 are looking to step out of their comfort zone in a supportive environment
🎭 enjoy meeting new and interesting and like-minded people
🎭 are returning to acting after a hiatus (high school, college, etc.) and need a refresher.
🎭 would like to work with instructors who are well-versed in the “business of show” and
can connect you to appropriate opportunities for auditions, freelance work, etc.
🎭 love to laugh, smile and HAVE A GREAT TIME!
In The Mix [Wednesdays 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Instructor: Lara Morton
This is the “kitchen sink” class you’ve come to know and love. We do a little bit of everything in “The Lab,” using a spontaneous, experimental approach designed to help you find your niche and define yourself as an actor. Be it for personal growth, social fun and enjoyment or the pursuit of a professional career, this unique class will mix it up: Scene study, monologues, theatre games and exercises, method work, improv, classical voice acting, memorization techniques, articulation and vocal development, film acting and more! Appropriate for newbies and returning devotees alike. There is always something new brewing in “The Lab”!
Level: beginner to intermediate
Summer Improv Jam [Wednesdays 8:30-9:45 p.m.]
Instructor: Lara Morton
This weekly class is geared toward learning improv “handles”, which are theatre games
intended for performance. Each week we will work with two specific handles.
Handles include: Freeze, Pyramid Freeze,Typewriter, A Day In The Life, Half-time,Three Rules, Four Corners, ABC Game, Lie Sit Stand, Why Were You Late?, Newscaster, World’s Worst, The [ ? ] Family, Party Quirks, Hitchhiker, Radio Dial, Give and Take.
Level: beginner to intermediate
“ I am blown away by how quickly my peers are advancing in skill (I seriously can't stop smiling when watching everyone perform.) I am kicking myself I didn't do this years ago, it's shocking how amazing I feel since starting this class.” - Caroline H. (Actor’s Lab Winter Session)
Are you ready to PLAY?!
Sign up now and let your talent shine!.
Ages 18 & Up
Summer Semester 24
7/10/24 - 8/28/24
$250 per 8 week session
Save $100 off when registering for both sessions
Embark upon a thrilling journey of personal development through creative exploration this summer!
Join us for our next exciting sessions in “The Lab,” where who you are and what you’ve experienced in life is fully accepted and respected as valuable and unique elements of effective storytelling. At NHAOPA, we meet you where you are, get to know you as an individual, work with you to pinpoint your goals, and facilitate your growth process as a budding artist and human.
The Actor’s Lab is the ideal choice for those who:
🎭 have aspirations for the professional stage or screen and are committed to taking active steps to move forward every day toward their goals
🎭 wish to pursue theatre as a fun and healthy hobby but aren’t sure where to start
🎭 are Interested in personal development and expansion of horizons
🎭 are looking to step out of their comfort zone in a supportive environment
🎭 enjoy meeting new and interesting and like-minded people
🎭 are returning to acting after a hiatus (high school, college, etc.) and need a refresher.
🎭 would like to work with instructors who are well-versed in the “business of show” and
can connect you to appropriate opportunities for auditions, freelance work, etc.
🎭 love to laugh, smile and HAVE A GREAT TIME!
In The Mix [Wednesdays 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Instructor: Lara Morton
This is the “kitchen sink” class you’ve come to know and love. We do a little bit of everything in “The Lab,” using a spontaneous, experimental approach designed to help you find your niche and define yourself as an actor. Be it for personal growth, social fun and enjoyment or the pursuit of a professional career, this unique class will mix it up: Scene study, monologues, theatre games and exercises, method work, improv, classical voice acting, memorization techniques, articulation and vocal development, film acting and more! Appropriate for newbies and returning devotees alike. There is always something new brewing in “The Lab”!
Level: beginner to intermediate
Summer Improv Jam [Wednesdays 8:30-9:45 p.m.]
Instructor: Lara Morton
This weekly class is geared toward learning improv “handles”, which are theatre games
intended for performance. Each week we will work with two specific handles.
Handles include: Freeze, Pyramid Freeze,Typewriter, A Day In The Life, Half-time,Three Rules, Four Corners, ABC Game, Lie Sit Stand, Why Were You Late?, Newscaster, World’s Worst, The [ ? ] Family, Party Quirks, Hitchhiker, Radio Dial, Give and Take.
Level: beginner to intermediate
“ I am blown away by how quickly my peers are advancing in skill (I seriously can't stop smiling when watching everyone perform.) I am kicking myself I didn't do this years ago, it's shocking how amazing I feel since starting this class.” - Caroline H. (Actor’s Lab Winter Session)
Are you ready to PLAY?!
Sign up now and let your talent shine!.
MEET YOUR COACH
Lara Morton, comes to NHAOPA with a wealth of experience in teaching/coaching, directing, producing, playwriting and acting. She co-founded FUSE Theatre of CT in 2019, after working professionally in educational and community outreach theatre since 1994. Previous educational theatre positions include Artistic Director/Playwright-in-Residence for the Yale-based Open End Theatre, Program and Education Director for Young Audiences of CT (Arts for Learning), and Assistant Director/Program Facilitator of the Mental Health Association Players (Binghamton, NY), where her decades-long relationship with improv began. She has been teaching and directing through her company Handful Productions for the past decade, turning out long-term creative projects such as SATB Cabaret and ‘Focus Teen Improv, and co-founded FUSE Theatre of CT in 2019. As a playwright, she has been honored with several professional staged readings in Manhattan (Epic Theatre Ensemble’s Sunshine Series of New Works, 2011) and New Jersey (Speranza Theatre’s Fall Festival, 2013), and her one-woman touring educational piece about CT State Heroine Prudence Crandall, “The Prudence Crandall Story,” has been gracing Connecticut school stages since 1998. As a performer, Lara has appeared in numerous musicals and Shakespeare plays in CT. She also works as a professional voice actor (@elizabeth_morton_voiceactor), face painter (@facepaintingbylara), and is employed by the Yale School of Medicine as a Simulated Patient actor.
Recent directing and/or producing projects include FUSE Theatre of CT’s ‘Falsettos’ (2023), ‘Songs For A New World’ (2023), Disney’s “The Lion King Jr.” (2020), “Lost Girl” (2022) and the acclaimed pandemic tour-de-force “A Midsummer Night’s Dream - The Rewired Musical” (Winner: Best Feature-length Comedy at Legacy Theatre Film Festival), which has become a tool for English and Theatre Arts educators across the country on YouTube.
NHAOPA audiences may recognize Lara for her indelible turn as “Mrs. Gloop” in ‘the Broadway on Main production of Willy Wonka’ (2023), and the Stage Manager of summer 2023’s three NHAOPA camp productions.