Playing Shakespeare Class

Burning Coal's Director of Education Ian Finley leads an eight-session class on acting and enjoying Shakespeare. Get up on your feet and explore the Bard's language!

Suitable for anyone interested in Shakespeare, no previous acting experience necessary.

Developing Your Script

An eight-week dramatic playwriting class focused on realizing, developing, and perfecting your script.

Do you have a half-finished script sitting in your bottom drawer? A first or almost-final draft you don't know what to do with next? An idea for a story but no script yet? Then join us as we explore the tools to turn your great start into a finished product. Any kind of script is welcome- be it for theater, film, or whatever you can imagine.

The class is taught by Ian Finley (MFA, Dramatic Writing, NYU). Mr. Finley is a published playwright and educator, and winner of the Harry Kondoleon Award for Playwriting and the Jean Kennedy Smith Award from the Kennedy Center.

Uta Hagen-based Scene Study Class

Burning Coal Artistic Director Jerome Davis will teach his annual scene study class based on Uta Hagen’s landmark Respect for Acting.  Mr. Davis studied with Ms. Hagen in New York City for seven years and annually teaches this class, which combines scene work with work on Uta Hagen’s Object Exercises.  Class is $200 and runs Monday evenings from 7 to 10 pm.

Speak the Speech:
Actors' Tools for Public Speaking

Learn to utilize an actor’s tools of Confidence, Articulation, and Improvisation in your professional life. Burning Coal Theatre Company’s Artistic Director, Jerome Davis, and Education Director Ian Finley will teach a 4-week class on the art of public speaking. Suitable for all audiences, no acting experience necessary.