Anaconda Ensemble Theatre
Anaconda, MT
US

CONTACT NAME

Jackie Vetter

DESCRIPTION

Join us for the Digital Workshops with Anaconda Ensemble Theatre!

TO REGISTER for ANY workshop Email [email protected] with your name and location to secure your spot! A few days before the event a payment link will be sent out and you will receive a link to join the workshop.

Submissions Star Workshop
Instructor: Jackie Vetter (Anaconda, MT)
Price: $25
Class Capacity: 20 (will run with 5 participants)
Age/Experience: All ages. Anyone under 16 should have a parent present with them.
Location: Digitally via GoogleMeet

Dates/Times
JANUARY 28th 7 pm - 8:30 pm MST: Digitally via GoogleMeet from your home!
MARCH 29th from 2 - 3:30 pm MST: Digitally via GoogleMeet from your home!

Not sure how to start your acting career? You find yourself nervous about submitting to auditions and actor calls you see? Curious about how to put your best foot forward when applying for projects? Just getting back into the industry and feeling overwhelmed? Or are you a seasoned pro and needing some motivation or reframe for the next part of your career? Join Anaconda Ensemble Theatre Artistic Director, Jackie Vetter, for her Submissions Star Workshop! We’ll talk about resumes, headshots, how to prepare files to send to casting directors/agents, cover letters, where to find jobs and more! How can you make sure that you are getting the right information to the decision makers to put your best foot forward? Have no fear, Jackie has (some) of those answers.

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Mastering the Elements:

The Five Sentence Story

Instructor: Steven San Luis (NYC)

Cost: $40
Capacity: 12 (will run with 6)

Age/Experience: All ages / No experience needed!

Location: Digitally Via GoogleMeet

Dates/Times

February 15th from 3 to 7 pm via GoogleMeet from your home!

From the Instructor: One of my favorite writing exercises is to write a story with a character, a character motivation, a character action, and a cathartic ending, all in five short sentences. Every one of my full-length plays (as well as my one acts that have been produced in festivals all over the country) have begun as a five sentence story jotted down in my green notebook. The Five Sentence Story is helpful for anyone who is just beginning to brainstorm a story as well as those who are multiple revisions deep. Every pop culture movie, tv show, novel, or (my favorite) work of theater can be

boiled down and told in this method. It is essential for writers trying to master structure, and it is an art form unto itself.

In this workshop you will:

-Learn the Five Sentence Story structure

-Deconstruct our favorite pop culture stories into the basic Five Sentence structure

-Write 10 Five Sentence Stories

-Pick one Five Sentence Story to revise/edit

-Learn the formal tools that make your story unique

-Learn how to turn your Five Sentence Story into a full length work

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Monologue Workshop:
Finding Texture through Psychophysical Gesture
Instructor: Sylvie Tamar (NYC/London)
Cost: $40

Capacity: 14 (will run with 6)

Age/Experience: 16+ / No Experience necessary

Location: Digitally Via GoogleMeet

Dates/Times

February 22nd from 11 am - 2 pm MST via GoogleMeet from your home.

Michael Chekhov’s technique, Psychophysical Gesture, has become a mainstay in my acting practice. Once you have identified your character’s Objective (what they want), and Tactic (how they will try to affect the other person to get it), the psychophysical gesture can help bring that tactic to life in a non-literal way. By working through the gesture with sound, then text, then leaving the gesture to bubble underneath as you deliver the text, your character’s inner world appears without forcing. This workshop is for anyone who has felt they are “just saying words” arbitrarily, and are looking for more specificity and intention in their scenework/monologues. Each participant will have a chance to work 1:1 on their monologue, using Psychophysical Gestures and Tactics to bring further texture and dynamic into their work.

Participants will bring in a 1 to 1.5-minute monologue of their choice (or can have one

assigned). If needing a monologue assigned, please note that in your registration email with your age range, gender identity and type of roles you go out for typically.

TO REGISTER for ANY workshop Email [email protected] with your name and location to secure your spot! A few days before the event a payment link will be sent out and you will receive a link to join the workshop.

DURATION

Jan 28, 2026 - Mar 29, 2026

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