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“Great performances are built through bumbling, false starts, and repeated mistakes.“
(Meryl Streep)
The Monologue Sharpener is a one day laboratory.
Polish what you’re working on, or test your new monologue idea with me, and an intimate group of others who are working on material of their own.
Learn through your work, and through the work of others… Have an audience, and be an audience.
What to expect:
-We will gather and introduce ourselves.
-I’ll facilitate a warm up.
-We’ll begin workshopping monologues, one person at a time.
-We’ll take a formal, ten minute break in the middle of our progress through the group.
-After we’ve seen everyone’s work, we’ll take a moment for questions.
-I’ll facilitate a closing exercise, and we’ll wrap up.
My next Monologue Sharpener will be offered:
July 11, 2026
1:00p-4:15p
Portland, Oregon.
$65.00
“The reveller on the way to the bottle meets the mourner on the way to the grave, and the malice of one is undone by the frolic of another. It’s a mixed world, and things don’t segregate themselves neatly out of tragedy and comedy.”
(Jonathan Miller)
William Shakespeare… A seminal playwright of the English language. A profoundly human artist. A weirdly divisive writer…
Shakespeare’s language frustrates many actors, while others would happily spend their lives exploring it, and a unique few have built careers performing in his plays.
This class will consist of ten working sessions.
What to expect:
During our first two meetings, we’ll explore tools, exercises, and tactics for working with Shakespeare’s language. We’ll investigate what makes Shakespeare special, why Shakespeare’s writing is useful for actors to train with and learn from, and why—after all these centuries—the plays continue to be produced today.
During the next eight meetings, we’ll workshop scenes and speeches, experimenting, and working with the tools and tactics we explored in our first sessions.
Mondays.
7pm-9:30pm.
Starting October 5, 2026.
Ending December 7, 2026.
Portland, Oregon.
$250.00
JEFFREY PUUKKA 