Acting Class at Denison University

Denison acting students doing warm-ups

Geoffrey Nelson is teaching an introductory Acting Class at Denison University in Granville, OH, this semester.  The class includes both theatre majors and students in other disciplines.

Students in the class study basic acting concepts such as playing an objective, raising the stakes and creating a character arc. Additionally, they learn how to warm up, physically and vocally, and how to relieve physical tension; how to analyze a character and a scene; how to utilize body language and subtext; and how to block a scene and how to use props as expressions of character.

Nelson has previously taught acting and directing classes at Denison as well as acting classes at the Ohio State University.  He is a member of Actors Equity and has performed more than fifty roles himself.