Acting Class

Karla Knudsen has announced that she will teach an eight-week, two sessions per week, acting class in Savannah beginning on Monday, April 6, 2009.

The course, “Character in Context,” will delve deeply and specifically into script analysis and character discovery. Students will explore and develop rehearsal techniques and be challenged to define and redefine their on- and offstage goals as they apply to representative texts. How to achieve efficiency and excellence within the work will be emphasized. A collaborative course, “Character in Context” will focus on building a communicative ensemble of players who play well together.

Karla Knudsen has acted, directed, choreographed, and taught performance for twenty years throughout the United States. She earned performing arts degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Ms. Knudsen was a professor of performing arts at SCAD for more than eight years. Currently she teaches 4D (time-based) design part-time for the SCAD foundation studies department. She has a passion for movement studies as well as working with diverse populations and original material. Ms. Knudsen also tutors for Royce Learning Center and home-schools her two inventive daughters through the Georgia Virtual Academy.

“Character in Context” will be offered on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. from April 6 through June 3, 2009, at a convenient Victorian District location in Savannah. “Character in Context” is designed for adult actors with some experience, but is open to all adults, and enrollment is limited to ten students. The cost for the course is $250. For further information and to enroll, contact Karla Knudsen at (912) 398-9807 or email her at karla.knudsen@gmail.com