INTRODUCTION TO ACTING for adults
With Fred Sullivan, Jr. 

Explore the techniques and vocabulary essential to understanding the craft of creating a performance through basic minimal improvisation, monologue work and scene study. This class is open to those with experience, as well as raw beginners who are curious about theater and performance skills — or those who are simply interested in discussing acting through more informed eyes. Rehearsal outside of class time is required.

The class runs for eight weeks, starting Saturday, Sept. 13th and runs from 10 until 12:30pm. Class size is limited to 12 people.

Each student in the class receives two complimentary tickets to The Dreams of Antigone at Trinity Rep. Class size limited to 12 students, Class meets for eight weeks.

To register, please contact Tyler Dobrowsky at (401) 521-1100 x230 or by email at education@trinityrep.com. 

Instructor Fred Sullivan, Jr. has played over 90 roles in 24 seasons at Trinity Rep and was last seen as Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit. Sullivan has taught acting continuously over the past two decades for Trinity Rep, The Gamm, RISD, Wheaton College and Brown University Arts Education Department. Fred has also acted at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkeley Rep, New Jersey Shakespeare, Theatre-by-the-Sea, American Stage Festival, The Breadloaf Acting Ensemble and this past summer as Nick Bottom for Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. in Boston. Sullivan is a Resident Director of The Gamm Theatre where he has directed Hamlet, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, Barrymore, One for the Road, Press Conference, Catastrophe, Tartuffe, The School for Wives, The Crucible, The Dresser, The Birthday Party and La Bete. For the Harwich Jr. Theatre on Cape Cod, Fred staged Twelfth Night, Animal Farm, Arms and the Man, Dandelion Wine, Alice in Wonderland, Androcles & The Lion, Charlotte's Web, Snow White, The Glass Menagerie and Waiting for Godot and directed the touring Jr. Players for ten seasons. He directed The Wind in the Willows, The Revenge of the Space Pandas, Bremen Town (an original musical vaudeville for families Fred co-authored with his brother John) for the Barnstable Family Theatre and the Trinity Rep Conservatory productions of Happy Days, The Venetian Twins, The Real Inspector Hound, Endgame, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, By The Sea, La Bete, American Buffalo and Cloud Nine. Fred has taught acting continuously over the past two decades for Trinity Rep, The Gamm, RISD, Wheaton College and Brown University Arts/Ed Dept. He has served as vice-president of the Board of Directors of the Harwich Jr. Theatre.