Intro to Acting
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Advanced Acting
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Improv Classes
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Content Creation Classes
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Intro to Acting ✳︎ Advanced Acting ✳︎ Improv Classes ✳︎ Content Creation Classes ✳︎
$295 for 10 classes
Introduction to the Craft of Acting
Grades 3–5
This class introduces young musical theatre actors to the fundamentals of acting in a fun, supportive, and age-appropriate way. Using games, exercises, monologues, and simple scene work, students begin to understand what acting ia all about.
Acting is more than just “pretending.” It is about believing the situation of the scene.
Rather than focusing on “being good” or performing perfectly, students learn how to listen, respond, and make clear choices. Acting is presented as something they already do naturally when they play, imagine, and tell stories.
Through creative exercises, movement, short scenes, and playful exploration, students learn:
● How to focus and stay present
● How to understand who they are in a scene and what they want
● How to work respectfully and confidently with others
This class builds confidence, creativity, and collaboration while laying the groundwork for future acting and musical theatre training. It is done in a collaborative environment that is safe, joyful, and encouraging.
The goal at this age is simple:
To help students feel brave, curious, and excited to express themselves.
$295 for 10 classes
The SOURCE Acting Technique
Grades 6–12
This acting and audition technique class is built around The SOURCE, a practical and deeply human approach to acting that helps students understand how acting works.
Taking the guesswork and the mystery of what to do or what not to do on stage. It gives the actor an approach, a foundation they can build upon.
Rather than focusing on tricks or habits, this class breaks acting down to its core skills. It teaches how to think clearly and make strong choices that lead to confidence and success. Students learn how to approach scenes and auditions with intention, confidence, and honesty, so they don’t just “perform”, but understand why they are doing what they’re doing.
Musical theatre is often called a Triple Threat art form. Singing, dancing, and acting. But today’s performers must be Quadruple Threats.
The most important skill isn’t singing, dancing or acting, it's thinking.
This is where we begin what we call “Character Work”. This class develops Stage IQ which is the ability to analyze material, understand circumstances and deconstruct character and material. Giving students the ability to enter auditions or performances prepared and grounded. When students learn how to think like an actor, truthful performance follows naturally.
The SOURCE Technique has been developed over more than 25 years by John J. Fanelli through teaching, directing, and building educational theatre programs.
Thousands of students have trained in this approach, some pursuing professional careers, and many carrying the confidence, clarity, and problem-solving skills into every area of life.
At its heart, The SOURCE teaches one essential idea:
We don’t control art. We receive it, listen to it and give it back.
We are THE SOURCE. The conduit between Art and audience.
The outcome is not the goal. The process is the main thing.
This class gives young actors the tools to access what has been there all along and to bring it into every audition, rehearsal, and performance.
$295 for 10 classes
Introduction to Improv
Impact’s Improv Class, taught by Jackson Fanelli, is a 10-week program designed to promote confidence on stage using tried and true improv exercises.
While when we think of improv, we often think of comedy, this improv class focuses instead on how to best create a believable scene.
These classes:
Teach teamwork skills
Go over the fundamental rules of improv
Encourage actively listening to your scene partners
Promote a fun and productive learning environment
$295 for 10 classes
The Social Media Performance Class
Impact performing arts is also introducing a revolutionary new kind of performance training in YouTube and social media. In this new era, having a social media presence can be a powerful advantage not just for aspiring actors but for all sorts of possible career paths. This class is taught by Jackson Fanelli, who currently has over 9,500 subscribers and over 1 million combined views on YouTube, specializing in long-form video essays analyzing movies, television shows and video games.
This class:
Emphasizes internet safety and encourages students to create their social media platforms after finishing High School using the training gained in the class.
Teaches skills in performance on camera for a social media audience.
Encourages the creation of transformative, productive and educational content.
Assists students using professional lighting, camera, teleprompter and sound equipment in the creation of a ~2-3 minute YouTube video essay.
Students may write their own scripts if they are interested but writing is not required for the class. Scripts can be provided.