Monologue: Confidence and Communication
A performance-oriented workshop that helps students build more confident communication techniques through researching, developing, and learning monologues. In sessions, students develop expertise in textual analysis, deep listening (through exercises from the Meisner technique), and basic memorization methods. By the end of the workshop, students will have fully developed, researched, and rehearsed a monologue that they will perform for each other in a final showing. Understanding and learning these monologues will offer students a chance to approach public speaking/‘performance’ in a low-stakes, imaginative way — the ultimate goal of this workshop is for students to inhabit someone else in order to more confidently express who they are themselves.
- Public speaking
- Topical expertise
- Executive function skills
- Project management & execution
- Writing & communication
Students will develop, rehearse, and perform monologues over the final sessions of the workshop. This will allow them to tangibly explore the concepts discussed over the prior sessions in real time, getting the ideas out of their heads and into their bodies. Upon completing the workshops, students will have a memorized and rehearsed text that they can use for future auditions (roles/shows, college, showcases/workshops, etc). The hope with this deliverable is to provide students with a scalable performance that they feel represents who they are in any audition context, almost like an introductory letter they can use to introduce themselves as performers in any context.