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Santa Fe Playhouse Studios Musical Theater Intensive

If you want to get fit and gain muscle, you have to head to the gym and work out — pretty straightforward, although difficult in practice.

Acting works much in the same way: If you want to develop your craft, you have to work out and practice. But the challenging part is finding opportunities to build those muscles as an actor. So where do you go if you’re not in a show or on a set? The Santa Fe Playhouse’s Artistic Director Robyn Rikoon and General Manager David Stallings are taking experiences and lessons they learned from being actors in New York City and building a development platform of actors in Santa Fe.

“In New York, going to acting class was something we all did weekly. So this year, Robyn and I were thinking, ‘Let’s create the Santa Fe Playhouse Studio to be six different workshops that are scene study courses,’” Stallings says. “We’re studying scenes from different periods and different approaches to acting through scene work. That’s the core muscle behind the Playhouse Studio.”

In addition to the scene study case, the Playhouse hosts specialized intensives, including one dedicated to musical theater beginning June 3. Taught by Bill Wesbrooks, the former director of vocal performance at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and author of Dramatic Circumstances: On Acting, Singing, and Living Inside the Stories We Tell (Applause Theatre & Cinema, 2014), actors will work on the “truthful acting of a song” and audition preparation. The intensive is open to actors ages 16 and older.

“We really just want to create a place where local professional actors and beginning actors, and everyone, can work together because we all learn from each other,” Stallings says. “So we want anyone to come and play with the art of acting.” — Henry Valdez/for The New Mexican

Santa Fe Playhouse Studio: Musical Theater Intensive 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., June 3-4

$300 (registration required)

142 E. De Vargas St.

505-988-4262; santafeplayhouse.org/playhouse-studio

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