INDIVIDUAL COACHING IS AVAILABLE. 

PLEASE EMAIL ED W. at info@dramaworkstheatre.org  

"The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe."

Lee Strasberg

                     NEXT CLASS STARTS JANUARY 3rd 2022. CLASSES

                            WILL BE TWICE A WEEK FOR TEN SESSIONS. 

                                     $120.00 DUE AT THE FIRST CLASS

                         THE CRAFT - BECOMING A BETTER ACTOR  

This class is for actors at all levels of experience from the beginner with little experience to the more experienced with or without previous training. 

 The goal is to provide you with the knowledge and deeper understanding of the craft and to give you the tools to discover new ways to bring a deeper meaning to your work. 

WORKSHOPS ARE CONDUCTED BY  Ed Wilhelms

Ed started his work in theatre as an actor.  He studied contemporary and classical acting at the American Theatre Wing School in New York City, with Gene Feist, founder of the Roundabout Theatre Company, William Cottrell, stage and film actor and former General Manager of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and stage and film actor, Raymond St.Jacques. Ed was also one of only six actors choosen by the Theatre Wing to study at the Raymond Moore Professional Training Center on the grounds of The Cape Playhouse in Dennis Massachusetts. 

Ed has appeared Off Broadway, in summer stock and local theatres in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. He has been featured in national television commercials , was Milt in "Luv" on Boston Public Television, was an original member and contributing writer of "The Free Range Comix", a sketch comedy show, was co-founder of The Actors Company, a Shakespeare training and performance company in Barnstable, Massachusetts. He is the founder of the A.C.T. Studio Theatre in Stuart, Florida and is the founder of Drama Works Theatre Cmpany. 

 Ed's directing credits include, "Crimes of the Heart" by Beth Henley, "Picnic" by William Inge, "Rabbit Hole" by David Lindsay Abaire, "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller, "Speed-The-Plow" by David Mamet, "The Exercise" by John Carlino, "Slowgirl" by Greg Pierce, "Biloxi Blues" by Neil Simon, "Eat Your Heart Out" by Nick Hall, "Walter Cronkite is Dead" by Joe Calarco, "Nebuchadnezzar" by Don Nigro, "Twilight of the Golds" by Jonathan Tolins ,"The Guys" by Anne Nelson and "Agnes of God" by John Pielmeyer.

Ed has conducted classes at his former studio in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, for the Margreta Stage Company of Essex Connecticut and at the A.C.T. Studio Theatre in Stuart, Florida.