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Introduction to Acting

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  • College of Arts & Sciences
  • First-Year Seminar Grant
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Great acting is not just a question of talent. It is an advanced art form that requires discipline, skill, and technique. This course aims to introduce students to the fundamentals of acting through an exploration of classic techniques, script analysis and relevant vocabulary. Over the semester students are introduced to three acting disciplines: 1 – improvisation, 2 – Stanislavsky’s system and scene work, 3 – movement-based acting. Students will study script analysis, acting technique and will rehearse and perform scenes. This course is an “on your feet course”; it requires active participation in all exercises and regular out-of-class meetings with classmates to rehearse and prepare scene work. Students will also attend a professional production together in Philadelphia.

  • 2019
  • College of Arts & Sciences
  • First-Year Seminar
  • Teaching Art Grant

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John McInerney (he/him)
Executive Director
215-573-0874
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Chloe Reison (she/her)
Associate Director
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reison@upenn.edu

Elizabeth Shaw (she/her)
Administrative Assistant
215-898-5930
elizshaw@upenn.edu

The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation offices are located at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.

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