CURRENT CLASSES AVAILABLE:

Adult Acting Workshop

Perfect for beginners or anyone looking to get reacquainted with acting! Join us in a welcoming enviornment where you will participate in group exercises, improvisation, scene work, and monologues. Get ready to meet new people all while doing what you love! If you have any questions about the program, please feel free to contact Jim Schilling at jschill246@gmail.com.

Adult Improv Workshop (Ages 18+)
6 classes
September 28 - November 9, 2026; No class October 12
Mondays, 6:30pm-8:00pm
Tuition: $375

LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS PER SESSION!

About the instructor

JIM SCHILLING
co-founded Music Theatre of CT in 1987 and is currently MTC’s Managing Director and Director of the School of Performing Arts.  MTC acting credits include Jacques Brel is Alive and Well..., Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down, Yours, Anne, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Doubt, Almost, Maine, God of Carnage, The Fantasticks,  Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The 39 Steps and most recently Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He was nominated for a CT Critics Circle award for Herr Shultz in Cabaret and winner of the BroadwayWorld award for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He continues as a Blue Ribbon Panelist for the Daytime Emmy Awards, and is on the voting committee for the SAG awards, and a member of “Who’s Who in the American Theatre” from 1991-present.  Jim was also an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University (Advanced Acting, Advanced Scene Study,  Script Analysis and Directing) where he was recently nominated Best Director of a musical for his work on Godspell.