✷✷✷ UPCOMING WORKSHOPS & EVENTS ✷✷✷
✷✷✷ UPCOMING WORKSHOPS & EVENTS ✷✷✷
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WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOPS
Who: Actors Shakespeare Project
What: ASP is piloting a Teaching Artist Training for actors interested in honing their skills for leading school residencies, full youth productions, and more!
Where: Somerville, MA
When: August 22-23, 2025
Cost: TBA
For: Actors Educators
Musical Theater Dance Drop-in Classes ✷
Who: Boston Dance Studios
What: This Musical Theatre Dance Class, hosted by Boston theatre artist Joy Clark, draws from the diverse styles found in the musical theatre canon, including modern, ballet, jazz, hip hop, and social dance techniques, combined with Joy's focus on storytelling and acting technique as it applies to the dance space. This unique class is designed to work on finding connections between acting and dance technique, while developing your own style and identity as an acting dancer. Each class involves learning original choreography while focusing on theatrical elements and mastering musicality.
When: Thursdays 6:30-8pm
July 31
August 7
August 14
Cost: Single Class $25, Students $20, Seniors $15
For: Actors Dancers
Who: Liars & Believers
What: In this workshop we offer students the tools that they need to begin to craft their own theatrical stories. Tailored to work with a variety of neurodivergent learning styles, our Adaptive Theatre Workshop provides students an opportunity to create fantastical tales through fun and engaging theater exercises. We cultivate their individual voices and creativity. Along the way, we teach them how to cooperate, listen, and communicate clearly. All sessions run from 12:30-1:30 pm. You may attend one or all of the sessions, or anything in between!
Where: Needham Heights, MA
When:
August 1st
August 8th
August 15th
August 29th
September 5th
Cost: $100 new student registration fee. $70 registration fee for returning students. $55 per class.
For: Actors Performers
“The Green Room” Workshop Series
Who: Art & Soul Consulting
What: Led by Kira Troilo and Ari Welch, these workshops are spaces for artists to connect, recharge, and grow.
Where: Virtual
When:
August 8, 12-1pm Brave Space Lab: Negotiating for Artists
August 22, 12-1pm Creative Rest Stop: Writing the Rules (for Yourself)
Cost: $35/month or PWYC for drop-in sessions ($25 suggested)
For: All Theatre Artists
9-Day Shakespeare Intensive: The Foundation
Who: Shakespeare & Company
What: Inspired by the content of our signature Month-long Intensive, this workshop is an immersion into acting Shakespeare for mid-career professionals during the height of our summer season. Ground yourself in Shakespeare’s language and aesthetics with daily classes in Linklater Voice, Movement & Dance, Monologue and Sonnet work, Structure of the Verse, and the Actor-Audience Relationship – all on the Shakespeare & Company campus, nestled in the beautiful Berkshires.
Where: Lenox, MA (Some housing available for $75/night)
When: August 20-29, 2025
Cost: $1,495 (see information page for potential discounts)
For: Actors Performers
Who: The Huntington Academy
What: This course offers a dynamic space for actors to refine their craft, focusing on character motivation and tactics, emotional authenticity, and active listening. Facilitated and coached by professional actor and educator Jesse Garlick, students will engage in sense memory exercises to deepen their connection to the text and hone their skills in scene work. Throughout the course, students will work together on select scenes and receive constructive feedback in guided rehearsal-style sessions. The course will culminate in a final sharing of scenes and a celebration of their work.
Where: Boston, MA
When: Mondays 6-8:30pm and one Saturday 10am-12:30pm (9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, 10/18, 10/20)
Cost: $350
For: Actors Performers
Who: The Huntington Academy
What: Through improvisations, explorations of status, games of one-upmanship, dress ups, song and dance, the class will take a journey into the fragile and madcap world of clown. In this course, the goal is for each student to encounter, share, and develop their unique voice in clown. Designed and facilitated by Lecoq-trained teacher, director, and theatre artist Susan Thompson, this course invites students to discover their clown identity, culminating in a final sharing of their collaborative work.
Where: Boston, MA
When: Wednesdays 6-8pm (9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29)
Cost: $350
For: Actors Performers
Who: The Huntington Academy
What: In partnership with The Click, this course aims to support performers in connecting and expressing their inner emotions and thoughts through physicality, dance, and devising. Students will explore how movement qualities and rhythms can convey relationships, characters, and stories.
Where: Boston, MA
When: Tuesdays 6-8pm (10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18)
Cost: $300
For: Actors Performers Dancers
Who: The Huntington Academy
What: This course is perfect for anyone seeking to learn the basic tenants and foundations of improvisation. Through laugh-filled exercises and improv games, students will gain new skills in a fun and welcoming learning environment. Students will work together to experience the joy and freedom of improvisational play alongside other performers, artists, and playmakers.
Where: Boston, MA
When: Mondays 6-8pm (10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17, 11/24, 12/1, 12/8)
Cost: $325
For: Actors Performers
Who: The Huntington Academy
What: Under the umbrella program EPIC: Empowered Performers in Conversation, this is a course for actors who are excited to develop their theatrical physicality, ensemble work, and creative writing. Students will work together to create an original piece of theatre utilizing devised theatre techniques taught by theatre industry professionals.
Where: Boston, MA
When: Thursdays 6-8pm (10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 12/4, 12/11) Performance on 12/15
Cost: $350
For: All Theatre Artists
Monologues & Physical Acting Workshop
Who: Studio Playground
What: Led by Matthew Bretschneider, this class integrates fundamental concepts for script analysis with movement games and physical theater. Over two days, participants explore techniques designed to promote range and flexibility as they apply physical acting exercises to material from contemporary theater, film, and television.
Where: Boston Center for the Arts
When: October 25-26, 2025 (1-6pm both days)
Cost: $95
For: Actors Performers
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Boston Mayoral Forum on Arts & Culture
Who: Mayoral Candidates & The Greater Boston Theatre and Arts Community
What: Join the 2025 Create the Vote Boston Steering and Host Committees for a Boston Mayoral Forum on Arts & Culture. This forum is your chance to hear directly from Michelle Wu, Josh Kraft, and Domingos DaRosa about their visions for the creative workforce and economy. The forum will be moderated by Jared Bowen, host of GBH’s The Culture Show. ASL and CART services will be available.
Where: The Strand Theatre, Boston, MA
When: Wednesday, July 30, 2025, 6 - 8:30 PM
Cost: Free
For: All Theatre Artists
Who: Idle Hands Theatre Co.
What: Idle Hands is your playground to experiment, collaborate, and build something brand-new from scratch. This is a devised theatre festival at heart—with a twist. Idle Fest is a three-day creative collision produced in collaboration with the Brookline/Cambridge Community Center for the Arts, Inc. (BCCA / CCCA). We’re here to stir the pot—bringing together artists from every corner of the performance world to cross disciplines, break routines, and make something wildly original. Think: ballerina meets drummer. DJ meets puppeteer. Expect the unexpected.
Where: Cambridge and Brookline, MA
When: Thursday, August 28 – Sunday, August 31
Cost: No cost to participate
For: All Theatre Artists (Devisers of all backgrounds)
Who: Yorick Ensemble & Vokes Players
What: The Festival will comprise of groups of writers, directors, and actors who will come together to write, rehearse, & perform new short plays based on a mystery prompt in just 24 hours. All groups will receive the same prompt, which will remain top secret until 8PM on Friday, August 8. Actor/director/writer submissions open now on a first-come-first-serve basis. Tickets available soon!
Where: The Vokes Theatre - Wayland, MA
When: August 8-9
Cost: No cost to participate
For: Directors Actors Playwrights
WHO ARE THESE RESOURCES FOR?
WHO ARE THESE RESOURCES FOR?
Actors/Performers/Dancers
Administrators
Educators
Stage Managers/Production Managers/Designers/Technicians
All Theatre Artists
Intimacy/Movement/Fight Directors
Playwrights/Dramaturgs
Directors/Producers/Casting Directors/Choreographers
Music Directors/Musicians
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Upcoming Workshops/Events
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All resources are listed alphabetically and we’ve noted the ones that are specific to the Greater Boston Area (GBA).
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All resources are listed alphabetically and we’ve noted the ones that are specific to the Greater Boston Area (GBA).
Please follow our Instagram for the most up-to-date resources. You can find an downloadable version of this resource list here.
This page is updated weekly on Tuesdays, ✷ denotes a new resource
SUBMIT COMMUNITY RESOURCES HERE
✷ This page was last updated on Tuesday, July 29th, 2025 ✷
Resource Round-Up is curated by Shira Helena Gitlin, along with the BATA Leadership team.
This is a living document and we are experimenting! Have feedback? Send us an email!
✷ This page was last updated on Tuesday, July 29th, 2025 ✷
Resource Round-Up is curated by Shira Helena Gitlin, along with the BATA Leadership team.
This is a living document and we are experimenting! Have feedback? Send us an email!
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