"Is there no play,
To ease the anguish
of a torturing hour?"
2025 SCENE STUDY CLASSES
SIGN UP FOR CLASSES IN 2025
All new applicants must audition/interview with Visionbox staff.
VISIONBOX
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Each year since our founding, we offer scene study classes in five-week sequences that culminate in at least one performance. These acting classes are taught by Jennifer McCray Rincón and are based in graduate-level study. The fall sequences specifically emulate first and second-year MFA training, beginning with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg, classical realism, and then moving into Shakespeare. We call this our certificate program.
Contact Visionbox Studio at info@visionbox.org to learn more
Staged Reading of the piece at Eisenhower Chapel
supported with a grant from the Lowry Foundation
January 6th-17th
American Addict
by Jennifer McCray Rincón
ALL CLASSES HELD AT: 7108 E Lowry Blvd, Denver, CO 80230
This class will focus on the process of creating live theatre through creating interviews and conducting research. In 2023, Visionbox created a completely new performance piece by interviewing addicts in recovery, staff members at Parker Valley Hope, IOP Professionals, and family members, as well as researching addiction in other written materials to create an ensemble stage performance that premiered at the Denver Fringe Festival in the Cleo Parker Robinson Theater. Visionbox would like to rework this important project in 2025 beginning with an intensive on devised work. All actors signing up for this class will have the opportunity to perform a staged reading at the Eisenhower Chapel.
All new actors must submit a headshot and resume to info@visionbox.org and will audition with Artistic Director Jennifer McCray Rincón and the Visionbox team.
Classes are Monday - Friday, January 6th-17th from 6-9pm
January 20th - February 20th
Shakespeare Scene Study &
Solo Performance
ALL CLASSES HELD AT: 7108 E Lowry Blvd, Denver, CO 80230
This class is an advanced acting class, but can also be taken by students earlier in their careers and actor training. John Barton’s Playing Shakespeare is the textbook for this sequence. Rules of scansion, articulated thought, and complex character will be some of the focus of this intensive. All students will work on soliloquies and sonnets initially, before moving into scene study from the Shakespeare canon. There will also be an introduction to the development of solo performance pieces.
All new actors must submit a headshot and resume to info@visionbox.org and will audition with Artistic Director Jennifer McCray Rincón and the Visionbox team.
Classes are Monday - Friday from 6-9pm
February 24th - March 27th
American & British Comedy
ALL CLASSES HELD AT: 7108 E Lowry Blvd, Denver, CO 80230
We will be looking at American and British Playwrights including Tom Stoppard, Martin McDonagh, Caryl Churchill, Neil Simon (The Odd Couple), Christopher Durang (Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike), Sarah Ruhl (Clean House, & The Melancholy Play), David Mamet, Tony Kushner, Bella and Samuel Spewack (Boy Meets Girl), Harold Pinter, and possibly some work on comedic Shakespearean scenes and monologues. This class will examine the Actors’ 5 Questions in the context of American and British comedies. While classes always focus on character transformation, and the playing of objectives and actions, like Shakespeare class, there will be some in depth examination of more technical skills and text analysis necessary to play comedy at a high level, i.e. comic timing, given circumstances, comedy of character, comic language, comic play structure, irony, and physical comedy. Project performance April 1st (April Fools Day 2025)
All new actors must submit a headshot and resume to info@visionbox.org and will audition with Artistic Director Jennifer McCray Rincón and the Visionbox team.
Classes are Monday-Wednesday
(CLASSES WILL BE DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS),
February 24th - March 27th from 6-9pm
Interested?
Contact info@visionbox.org for more information
and to set up an audition/interview.
Limit 16 actors per class.
Some financial aid/work study available upon request.