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. 

For adults ages 18+

Mondays from 5-6:00 pm

Beginning on March 23rd and running through May 11th. 

Showcase Performance on May 15th 6:00 pm

This is it – all things in one place. A sprinkling of all the stuff we have covered in all our classes to date: Audition Prep, Improv and “Skitprov,” Emoting, Character Acting, Physical Choices, Scene Work, Ensemble Work, Diction and Projecting and more! We will ultimately focus on a final monologue presentation for the showcase. This class is for beginners or experienced actors. Just like last time we will be offering all students a private zoom with the instructors before the course begins so we can understand what you want to get from the class and as such, tailor our instruction to you personally and uniquely while keeping with the group progress and group dynamic. (We know, we know… that sounds crazy and a little ambitious, but it’s what will be best for you, so we’re offering it).

Denise Page has been acting since she was a kid (first unofficial role was as Santa Claus in her in-school preschool class holiday presentation… it’s possible no one attended this performance, but it DID happen!) Some recent favorite roles at the Academy include: Mama Rose in Gypsy!, Nancy in Oliver!, Miss Hannigan in Annie, Ado Annie in Oklahoma! Other recent credits include Mrs. Cratchit in a Christmas Carol, Provincetown Theater; Mrs. Gibbs, Our Town at Cape Rep Theater; Gayle & Rhonda in Almost, Maine, Eventide Theater. Denise LOVES teaching. She loves watching her students grow and shine on stage. Her philosophy is that anyone can do this as long as they are willing to dig in and expand themselves a little... and then dig and expand a little more. She’s had many wonderful mentors over the years and passes their lessons onto her students. By day she is the Office Manager at the family business in Provincetown. Up next this Spring at the APA, catch her as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly!

Ryan started acting as an adult, but has been performing his entire life. When other kids got piano lessons, he was teaching himself accents and impressions to get his family to laugh at him (which they did already). Ryan loves to share the joy of performing with the various classes. Past credits include Wizard of Oz (Tin Man), Oliver (Bill Sykes), Annie (Bert Healy), Oklahoma (Curly), Streetcar Named Desire (Stanley) and Guys & Dolls (Nathan Detroit), to name a few. His first and all-time favorite role was playing NINE members of the D’Ysquith Family in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Ryan works as a firefighter/paramedic and lives in Eastham with his wife Megan and two kids, Esme & Gus. See Ryan this Spring at the APA as “Horace Vandergelder” in Hello, Dolly! or later this year in…well, you’ll have to just wait and see!