Personal Performance Classes

Terrific opportunities to improve your writing, public speaking and presentation skills.

How to be in TV Commercials
When you see a commercial on TV, do you think to yourself "I could do that!" Find out how you could be the next spokesperson for a product or company. Or just use the skills to help your sales pitches at work. Work on vocal variety, appearance, and facial expressions. A professional videographer will tape your performance. Ages 10 and up. 4 sessions. Instructor: Anne Harvey

The Art of Public Speaking
Get rid of your fears. Whether you make presentations at work or on stage, this voice class will help develop a trained ear so you can improve your own tone, pitch, volume and rate of speech. Learn how to become comfortable in front of groups as small as five and as large as 5,000. 4 sessions. Instructor: Anne Harvey

Intro to Script Writing
This class is designed for beginners and experienced writers alike. You will learn how to channel your creative energies toward writing for the stage, screen, and TV. This course will take yoii1lirough the process of story-and character development and adapting them to dramatic art formats while learning the process of writing a full-fledged script. You'll participate in a script polishing session and present a portion of your own script to other class members. No prerequisite, but class participants should have some writing experience and be prepared, to write up to 30 pages of a script they have begun or are working on. 10 sessions. Instructor: Thomas J. Quigley