Get comfortable in your acting craft on-camera as we navigate the world of performing arts in a weekend long virtual acting intensive. Expand your budding actor's portfolio, and review a range of on-camera acting techniques. Performers will be brought through various workshops gaining access towards creating their own polished scenes and performances. On Sunday afternoon, family and friends are welcome to attend our collective virtual show where each performer will have their chance to shine!

Ages: 14-17

Course Date Info:

9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Students will be using UGA’s eLearning Common and Collaborate Ultra for this course. Students will be e-mailed their access information one week before the program and will be able to log-in to their program each day at 8:45 a.m.

Prerequisites:
This course is designed for students both with little to no experience in the theatre and seasoned veterans.

Instructor: 

Alexis Lygoumenos is a first year Theatre and Performance Studies PhD student at the University of Georgia. She has taught classes in Acting, Improvisation, Scene Study, Voice Overs, Musical Theatre, and Audition Technique at the California School of the Arts, the International Performing Arts Academy and Los Angeles Center Studios. She received her MFA in Acting from the New York Film Academy, trained at the Yale Summer Actors Conservatory, the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, and the University of Oxford. Under the stage name Alexis Nichols, she is an award winning versatile actor, writer, and voiceover talent. This is Alexis’s second year as a Georgia Center Youth Program Instructor.

What you need for camp/program: 

Students must have a computer or tablet that has Internet access and one of the following browsers installed: Google® Chrome™, Apple® Safari®, Mozilla® Firefox®, and Microsoft® Edge. Please visit Brightspace Browser Support in the Community for further details about the Browser Support Lifecycle. Starting January 1, 2020, eLC will no longer be supported on Microsoft® Internet Explorer®.

Please look for the camp outline for required program supplies in your parent information e-mail sent three weeks before your program.