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.

Spring Adult Acting Class with Fred Sullivan, Jr.
will run from March to May
Saturdays from 10-12:30pm at the Pell Chafee Performance Center.
Classes run for eight weeks, and cost $300.
The class comes with two vouchers to see a production at Trinity.
Class size is limited to 12 people.
To register, please contact Caroline Azano at (401) 521-1100 x230 or by email at education@trinityrep.com. 

Instructor Fred Sullivan, Jr. has played over 90 roles in 25 seasons at Trinity Rep. 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.