Private voice lessons with Jennifer Almeida. Eight weeks; 30 min lessons. Please register here and Jennifer will contact you for scheduling

Jen is incredibly excited to be teaching voice at the Academy where she is proud to be the President of the board and The Director of Education. She has an extensive background in teaching and performance. Jen has directed musicals, plays, and concerts and has taught private voice and classroom music as well as classes in acting and musical theater.

As a singer and actor in the community, she recently performed as The Woman in Death of a Salesman in the black box at CCFTA, Maria in The Sound of Music, Justice in Rock of Ages, The Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, Laurey in Oklahoma, Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins, Sarah Brown in Guys & Dolls, and Sister Amnesia in Nunsense at the Academy of Performing Arts and with Falmouth Theater Guild as Marian and Chiara in The Bridges of Madison County. She performed the role of Emily Hobbs in Elf the Musical at Cotuit Center for the Arts along with her son, Lucas as Michael Hobbs.

Jen completed her undergraduate degree at the Hartt School and her graduate degree at the New England Conservatory where she was a member of the opera theater program. Jennifer has sung as a soloist with the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra and was a regional semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She was a young artist with PORT (Opera Maine) and has performed in several seasons with them. 

Class Taught by Denise Page & Ryan Van Buskirk

Mondays 5-6pm

Age: adults

Classes run beginning the week of 9/22 qnd end the week of 11/10

“Ok, so I’ve been cast as a tree… AGAIN. I think I need help but I don’t know where to start.”

First, this is not your average acting course! That’s either a spoiler alert, warning or a

test to see if you’re serious about leveling up. Keep reading if you’re still interested - this will be

a group course but with HIGHLY individualized direction and instruction. Ryan and Denise are

back with a next level Adult Acting course, (that’s also suitable for the new actor). For the

showcase presentation we will be presenting monologues (or POSSIBLY a couple of small skit

presentations). As actors, most of what we do is based on what we have seen others do, either

in real life, on stage or on screen… As actors, we are stepping into playing someone (or

something – yes! Even you trees out there!) else. We are studying this every day, whether we

realize it or not. In this class, we will discuss how to be ACTIVELY studying this versus

PASSIVELY studying this. We will begin by having a detailed discussion with each individual

actor about their past roles, if/how they feel maybe they are stuck in their acting and discuss

what areas they want to work on. This will be done via Zoom BEFORE the start of the in-person

classes and will be highly personalized. Are you often playing comedic villain roles and love it

but really would love to just try on the young ingenue role? Are you often drawn to

Shakespeare tragedies but would just LOVE to dabble in some adult comedy loaded with

innuendo? Whatever it is you want to try or work on, we will and we’ll help you identify what to

work on if you aren’t sure! We’ll splash in a mock audition day during the course as well. Does

this sound like a highly personalized, build-your-own acting class? It kinda is… but we are also

going to do it together because that’s half the way we learn, grow, inspire and create. We will

likely also find a play on the Cape this Fall that we can all attend together (not included in the

classroom fee), that we will discuss and analyze as a group, helping learn how to become more

actively engaged in theater and acting not just from the on stage perspective but from off stage

as well. Are you brave enough to step into this course? We hope so. We will push you as

hard as you want to be pushed.