Acorn Productions’ Producing Director Michael Levine will be teaching an acting class for teenagers on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. beginning May 5.

This class will be very similar to his Actors’ Workshop process class, only for younger participants.

A few spaces are still available in Actors’ Workshop on Wednesday nights from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. beginning on May 4.

Both classes focus on refining skills and helping actors develop a process to approach their work. Topics include: sub-text, status work, physical embodiment of need and emotion, tactics, and playing units of action. As the class focuses on process, not much time is spent rehearsing or polishing a final presentation – the work is focused more on addressing individual actors’ needs.

Both classes will be held at the West End Dance and Yoga Studio on 155 Brackett St. in Portland. The session runs for eight weeks and costs $150 ($125 if paid in full by May 1st).

Michael Levine is the co-founder of Oak Street Theatre and Acorn Productions. He has directed many productions for Acorn, including The Cocktail Hour, Measure for Measure, Burn This, Buried Child and Much Ado About Nothing.

He taught acting classes for adults at the Acorn School for the Performing Arts and for teenage and middle school students at Sacopee Valley High School in Hiram and the L/A Summer Theatre Arts Program. Mike is a graduate of M.I.T., where he studied playwrighting with A.R. Gurney, and acting with Kristen Linklater and Shakespeare and Company. He has worked at Portland Stage Company and the New Repertory Theatre and is currently an English teacher at Gorham High School.

Please visit www.acorn-productions.org for more information.