Mo`olelo Classes & Education Outreach

CLASSES
How to register for any of our classes:
Call 619-342-7395 or email classses@moolelo.net. Please provide your name, address, phone number, email address and which class you're interested in. Someone will contact you with more details or to confirm.

Producing Theatre in San Diego - Mo`olelo is available to consult on your productions and community engagement. Click here for details on our Producing Workshop, and call 619-342-7395 for more information.

Michael Chekhov's Psychological Gesture
Instructor: Terry Glaser
Dates: August 14 and 15, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: The 10th Avenue Theatre, 930 10th Avenue, San Diego, CA 98101
Fee: $175 / $150 for members of AASD, AEA, AFTRA, SAG or TCG
The heart of the Michael Chekhov Technique, Psychological Gesture provides the entryway into a character. One of the most powerful physical acting techniques in contemporary actor training, Psychological Gesture enables the actor's complete transformation into a new persona. Rooted in the actor's body and the character's soul, Psychological Gesture inspires the actor's creative energies and provides a direct route to a character's inner life. Click here to read the instructor's bio.

Playwriting II - COURSE FILLED
Instructor: Seema Sueko
Dates: June 24, July 1, 8, Aug 5, 12 and 19, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Mo`olelo, 7071 Convoy Court, 2nd floor conference room, San Diego, CA 92111
Fee: $250 / $200 for members of AASD, AEA, AFTRA, SAG or TCG
Open to students who have participated in Your Mo`olelo Playwriting Class, this class is focused on helping writers transition the short scenes they created in Your Mo`olelo toward a first full draft of a play, or to facilitate re-writes on their first draft. The format will include impulse writing exercises, assigned deadlines, feedback in a safe setting and writing assignments. Click here to read the instructor's bio.

Speaking Shakespeare with Skill and Power - COURSE FILLED
Instructor: Jan Gist
Dates: March 6, 7, 13, 14, 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon
Location: The 10th Avenue Theatre, 930 10th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
Fee: $250 / $200 for members of AASD, AEA, AFTRA, SAG or TCG
Maximum 14 students
Registration closes Feb 19

Mo`olelo is pleased to offer this Shakespeare class taught by Jan Gist, professor of voice, speech and dialects for the USD/The Old Globe Graduate Theatre Program. During the four intensive sessions, students will explore verse, prose, rhetoric shapes, and scansion and put it all together through practice of speeches and scenes. You can read more about the class and the instructor's bio on our blog here.

Your Mo`olelo Playwriting Class - COURSE FILLED
Instructor: Seema Sueko, Artistic Director, Mo`olelo
Dates: Wednesdays, 4:00 - 6:30 PM, December 30, 2009 to February 3, 2010
Location: Mo`olelo, 7071 Convoy Court, San Diego, CA 92111
Fee: $250 / $200 for members of Equity, SAG, AFTRA, or TCG

Mo`olelo is the Hawaiian word for "story." Your Mo`olelo is a six-week playwriting class, designed for beginning to intermediate-level playwrights. Each class session will include an introduction of various playwriting tools, elements or tactics, followed by exercises to fully explore them. The goal is to help you write your story. Students should bring a notebook and pen or pencil or laptop - whatever you are most comfortable writing with - and a willingness to explore. Your Mo`olelo will provide you with tools to begin writing your play, or to re-write it, and the confidence to trust your impulse and write the story you need to write. Click here to read the Instructor's bio.

Youth education outreach

Three Part Arts - Mo`olelo is pleased to offer our unique Three Part Arts Education Outreach program in conjunction with our productions. Part One is a 20-minute pre-show classroom visit that ignites students' imaginations and prepares them for their theater-going experience. This visit is held 1 - 3 days prior to the students' fieldtrip to the play. Part Two is a fieldtrip to see the play. Maximum capacity is 105 students and teachers. Schools must reserve their own buses to the theater. Part Three is a 50-minute post-show classroom workshop held 1 - 5 days after the students' fieldtrip. This workshop can focus on playwriting, acting skills, and/or history-social science issues and may be replaced by a post-show discussion with the actors immediately following the performance at the theater. For rates and more information please call us at 619-342-7395. Download the Teacher Study Guide for Yellow Face here.

Mo`olelo Bridges - Mo`olelo Bridges is a 16-week arts-in-education residency at Hoover High School. Mo`olelo staff works with 20 to 25 students and teachers from the AVID program weekly in this residency that focuses on improving students' ability to write, speak, think critically and work collaboratively. Adapted from the federally-recognized Neighborhood Bridges program developed by The Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Mo`olelo Bridges develops students' critical literacy skills and animates them to become storytellers of their own lives.