Adult Acting Classes
Whether you’re interested in becoming a great actor or directing one, we’ve got a class for you! All classes are held at RPAA inside the Dominion Energy Arts Center in downtown Richmond, VA.
Cadence Adult Acting classes have concluded for Spring 2025. Please check back for our fall offerings. Interested in being put on our mailing list? Contact Laine Satterfield, Director of Education, at laine@cadencetheatre.org.
Recent Classes
Personal Narrative as Monologue
with Denise Simone
As actors we work to inhabit the lives of others. In this four-session workshop we will look to our own lives and stories. Together, we will explore how to uncover the stories that hold power for us and use them as the basis for creating our own monologues.
Tuesdays 7-9PM
April 1-22, 2025
Ages: 18+
Tuition: $200
Directing for the Stage:
An Organic Approach with Rusty Wilson
This class introduces students and aspiring directors to an organic approach to directing for the stage. Using a selected text, participants will learn how to analyze a play script, explore the casting and rehearsal process, create a rehearsal schedule, and understand the role of the director as leader of the rehearsal and production process. Time permitting, participants may also be asked to lead actors in a hands-on rehearsal of a scene from their chosen play.
Wednesdays 7-9PM
April 9-30, 2025
Ages: 18+
Tuition: $200
The Wisdom of Uta Hagen
with Julie Fulcher-Davis
Explore the revolutionary acting techniques of legendary acting teacher and practitioner, Uta Hagen. Develop a deeper understanding of your craft through exercises and scene study work using Hagen’s core principles with an emphasis on working from the inside out and finding truth in the moment.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays 7-9PM
May 6-28, 2025
Ages: 18+
Tuition: $400
Recent Instructors
Julie Fulcher-Davis
Instructor
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Julie Fulcher-Davis (she/her) is an award-winning actor, director, playwright, composer, drummer, and voiceover artist. Of her many acting credits, she narrows her most cherished roles to these three life-changing ones: the one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the Witch in Into the Woods, and Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie. Beyond the stage, Julie's talents extend to playwriting and composing. Her original works have been showcased across the nation through VaRep's Touring Company. For the past 19 years, Julie has taught the influential techniques of Uta Hagen at the University of Richmond. She is a member of AEA, The Dramatist Guild, and the National Honor Theatre Society Alpha Psi Omega.
Denise Simone
Associate Artist / Instructor / NNPN Liaison
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Denise Simone (she/her) has pursued a life in the professional theatre for the past 40 years as an actor, director, teacher, administrator and consultant. Between 1996 and 2016, Denise served as Company of Fools’ Co-Producing Artistic Director. She also served as a commissioner for the Idaho Commission on the Arts and as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. Denise is currently an advisory board member for the Sun Valley Playwrights Residency as well as a member of Actors’ Equity Association and Screen Actors’ Guild. For her work in the theatre, Denise was awarded the Idaho Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.
Rusty Wilson
Associate Artist / Instructor
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Rusty Wilson (he/him) is a theatre artist and teacher who has directed a number of critically acclaimed productions for Cadence since 2005. Previously, Rusty spent ten years serving as the Founding Artistic Director for Company of Fools. His favorite directing credits there include Uncle Vanya, James Joyce’s The Dead, Waiting for Godot, How I Learned to Drive, The Tempest, Death and the Maiden, Buried Child, and Other Desert Cities. Rusty has been a guest director and teacher at various colleges and universities around the country, received a fellowship in directing in 2003, and was featured in an issue of American Theatre Magazine.