Workshops
Hone your skills or learn something new!
We offer workshops in acting, directing, improv and other stagecraft throughout the year.
​
Note: If registering through PayPal isn't your thing, you can always pay at the first class. However, you do need to contact us to sign up in advance, so we can manage the numbers. Thanks!
​
The Voice of Your Life: Wellness, Ease, Strength, and Integrity
with Joanna Cazden
Mondays, April 28 & May 5, 12 & 19, 2025
6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Renew your expressive voice through solo and group exercises, health tips, and explorations of your vocal biography. Through these four evening sessions you’ll expand your repertoire of warmups and understand why they work; rediscover the fundamentals of technique and vocal wellness; and appreciate your personal voice as a multi-dimensional channel for art and life.
​
Cost: $75
​
Sign up HERE.
For more information, visit: www.joannacazden.com.
"Having enrolled in the class I'm more enlightened about the anatomy and function of the human voice. I am also equipped with many exercises to maintain my vocal character."
—Vincent Meade
Voice of Your Life workshop
"Through a blend of engaging conversations, clinical and scientific information, group and individual activities, I learned more about making friends with my voice—caring, exercising and trusting its natural state. I gained practical and practicable skills. I recommend this class highly."
—Carol Geortner
Voice of Your Life workshop
She is certified in Fitzmaurice Voicework and Performing Arts Medicine; and has trained with Catherine Fitzmaurice, Fran Bennett, Paul Blake, and the RSC’s Robert Lloyd. From 2001-2020, she was senior voice therapist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Voice Clinic, Los Angeles, treating injured actors and singers. Her book “Everyday Voice Care: The Lifestyle Guide” (Hal Leonard) is in wide use in arts conservatories; other publication topics include the vocal risks faced by actors in videogames and the neuroscience of vocal emotion. Also a singer-songwriter with six solo albums to her credit, Joanna is known for voice work that is holistic, practical, cross-disciplinary, and well-informed. She has resided in Santa Cruz since 2022 and has offered workshops for the Santa Cruz Jazz Society and several choral groups.
Joanna Cazden, MFA, MS-CCC, is a voice specialist who has taught at CalArts, American Academy
of Dramatic Art, several CSU campuses, and teacher-training programs across the US and UK.
Also coming to Actors' Theatre later this year...
Auditioning
​with Wilma Marcus Chandler
The Actor's Toolbox Series​
with Suzanne Schrag and Christopher Peak
Writing the 10-Minute Play
​with Wilma Marcus Chandler
Bill Peters is a professor emeritus at San Francisco State University where he taught playwriting, acting, directing and Shakespeare performance for many years.
​His directing credits include projects at the Manhattan Theatre Club, The Denver Center, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Jewel Theater in Santa Cruz, and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco. He has directed many times for Actors' Theatre's 8 Tens @ 8 Festival.