Acting for Adults: Monologues
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View Upcoming EventsJoin Nicole Marie Green (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night) for an 8 week acting intensive with a focus on monologue and solo performance. Whether you are an experienced actor looking to keep your skills sharp, or someone brand new to acting who is looking to gain more confidence in public speaking, this class will provide an excellent foundation for the craft of performance. Working with published text in a small group setting, Nicole will lead the 2 hour class with exercises, games, and coaching to enhance the students' ability to act from a deeply personal and freely imaginative place. Learn to tackle new material, dissect scripts, and perform while we develop the actor’s instrument and build technique.
Nicole Marie Green (she/they) is a Pacific Northwest–based actor, director, and theatre educator, as well as a Resident Teaching Artist at Portland Center Stage. She has been seen onstage in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, and Pride and Prejudice, and served as Associate Director for Hair. Originally from Nyack, New York, Nicole earned her undergraduate degree in Theatre Arts and Public Relations from Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. After several years living and working in New York City, she moved to Kansas City to pursue an MFA in Acting and Directing at UMKC.
For more than a decade, Nicole has worked as a multidisciplinary theatre artist with a focus on physical and ensemble-based storytelling. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches acting at Portland State University, developed the youth theatre program at A Renaissance School of Arts & Sciences, and teaches yoga at The People’s Yoga.
As an educator, Nicole is passionate about creating playful, collaborative learning environments where artists of all experience levels can take creative risks, deepen their craft, and build meaningful connections through storytelling.
Nicole is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
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