Classes + Workshops
Come Play with Firelight.
We love sharing what we love. In Season 9, Co-Artistic Directors Nora Fiffer and Jason Lambert continue to teach nurturing + rigorous acting classes. And Firelight welcomes guest artists who bring new workshop offerings. Classes at Firelight are for the newcomer as well as the experienced practitioner. See below for offerings.
Classes make great gifts! Gift cards are available for any amount. Purchase a gift card here.
IMPROV CLASS with Tara Perry
Welcome to Firelight Theatre Workshop's first Improv Class! We are thrilled to offer a 6-week immersion into the world of improv, led by Tara Perry.
You may know Tara from the Harrisville Village Community Center, Aldworth Manor, or the Emmy winning sitcom The Fresh Beat Band on Nickelodeon!
This class will introduce students to the fundamentals of improvised scene work in a warm and open environment. All levels + experiences welcome.
About the Instructor:
Tara Perry, Actress/Writer/Producer, originally from Arkansas, recently moved to NH from Los Angeles. She studied improv and sketch comedy at The Groundlings, iO West and the Upright Citizens Brigade. She was on the Emmy winning sitcom The Fresh Beat Band on Nickelodeon completing four national tours when they hit the road and performed live for thousands of children. She went on to produce and write several films withHCT.media. She’s thrilled to be back in the theater space teaching improv, one of her favorite art forms.
Improv Class at Firelight, with Tara Perry
September 17 - October 22
Thursdays, 6-9pm @ The Firelight Studio
$300 (early registration) / $325 (registration after Sep. 7)
Class is limited to 12 students.
Thank you for joining us for
INTRO TO SOLO PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
with Erika MacDonald
Firelight Theatre Workshop was over the moon to welcome back performance artist and Peterborough native, Erika MacDonald, as our Season 9 Guest Artist!
What!? You think I want to stand on a stage all by myself? And say words I come up with myself?
Yes. Yes, I do think you want that. And I want to be there while you give it a try.
This 4-hour one-day workshop was designed to get you out of your head, into your body, and onstage by yourself. By the end of the workshop students created and performed their own original one-minute solo performance piece. Exercises put students in touch with some of their solo performance “scene partners”: your own Body, the Space, and your Audience. So even though you perform by yourself you never feel alone.
Thank you for joining us for
THE PRACTICE:
AN ADVANCED 8-WEEK SCENE STUDY
Acting is a practice. It’s an endless pursuit of connection, presence, craft, technique, and spontaneity in order to tell a meaningful, good story to/with/for an audience. We’ve discovered that there is a group of regular Firelighters who are ready and rarin’ to be in practice. To be up on their feet in a regular and robust way. This offering, we hope, reflects this desire, this readiness.
The Practice is a new program at Firelight, in which we invite advanced participants the opportunity to accelerate and deepen their scene study. The goal for us at Firelight is to offer more independence and rigor for students who want to develop + hone an ongoing practice.
Independence. We believe that independence from active instruction and independence of taste (students select their own material!) leads to a freer instrument.
Collaboration. We believe true ensemble is possible with healthy collaboration, listening, respect, and a commitment to both giving and taking. We invite participants to give space and take space in equal measure.
