Masterclass: Solo Performance

Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center

Moderated by Ann Noble

6:00-10:00pm (both days)

$150 for two 4-hour sessions

Solo Performance
A Two-Day Workshop with Ann Noble
October 21 & 28

Ever wanted to tell your story? Either on the stage or on a digital platform? In this new era of the “content creator”, there has never been a more necessary time to become familiar with the special set of skills that solo performance demands. There are no “rules”, per se, but there are several principles that can shine a light on the method and madness of what can be, truly, one of the most extraordinary and cathartic endeavors. This masterclass will introduce the actor to both disciplines of acting and writing specifically for this medium; the result is a toolbox which will give you the confidence to take your story out into the world, where it belongs. Class time will include lecture and instruction with real-time practice, as well as the sharing and shaping of pre-class assignments, as well as extensive external resources for future education.

*Please note, students under 18 require permission from the moderator to take this academy class. If you’re in this category, please reach out to us at academy@antaeus.org.


About Ann Noble
Ann Noble is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed actor, playwright/screenwriter, director, teacher and solo performer with over thirty years professional experience. Originally from Chicago and co-founder of the Irish Theatre Company (formally Seanachai), she graduated from Northwestern's Theatre School and trained in Oxford, England with the Yale School of Drama. She is a long-time ensemble member of ANTAEUS where she taught many classical acting classes, ran ANTAEUS’ Arts Education Program and was head of casting. Director credits: Warriors For Peace, ANTAEUS, Theatre Ghosts, Vs., Echo (member), Rogue Machine (member), Homeboy Industries, Museum of Tolerance, L.A.’s Holocaust Museum, and L.A.’s LGBT Center. Solo Performance credits: Northwestern, Kirk Douglas, Powerhouse, L.A.’s LGBT Center, D.C.’s Capitol Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Sydney Fringe, Hollywood Fringe, Echo. She currently teaches Scene Study at Moving Arts Theatre, and also serves as a chaplain in the L.A. County jails.

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Ann Noble
Ann Noble is a Chicago Native with over twenty-five years of professional experience in the theatre as an actor, playwright, director and educator.  In addition to teaching at Antaeus, she currently teaches at Berg Studios (Technique I & II) as well as at the Hyperion Arts Center/Studio A Dance (Scene Study).  As a director, her recent credits include Smoke with LifeChild Productions and Moonshine Mamas with Two Heads Are Better Productions.  With Antaeus, she recently directed two of the Classic Sunday Readings of Shaw’s St. Joan and Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, which she is slated to co-direct in its full production this winter with Armin Shimerman.  As an actor, her credits with Antaeus are Hedda Gabler, The Crucible, Macbeth, Peace In Our Time, The Liar and The Malcontent.  Her other theatre acting credits include: BLISS, or Emily Post is Dead  with Moving Arts; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, and Stanley Ann: The Unlikely Story of Barack Obama’s Mother all with LA’s LGBT Center; Other Desert Cities with ICT of Long Beach; American Dead with Rogue Machine; Orange Flower Water with the Victory; Belfry with Malibu Playhouse; An Ideal Husband with Sierra Madre Playhouse; The Fall To Earth, Bedroom Farce and London’s Scars with the Odyssey; Betrayal with ETC of Santa Barbara; Sidhe, And Neither Have I Wings To Fly, The Friendly Hour, Big Death & Little Death, Shove and Bunbury all with the Road; and over six productions with South Coast Rep.  She also teaches acting and writing to incarcerated/at risk youth at several schools/institutions around LA including Homeboy Industries, and also works as a theatre director/instructor for youth at LA’s LGBT Center and LA’s Museum of the Holocaust.  She is the current Casting Associate for Antaeus, and, also, will be directing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar for Warriors For Peace this fall.
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*member, Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule
Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
110 East Broadway
Glendale, California 91205