ACADEMY 2025: Voice Production
Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
Moderated by Adam J. Smith
6:30-9:30pm
$425 for six 3-hour sessions
Voice Production
Extended Vocal Range Technique for the Actor: The Barrantes Voice System
Feeling limited vocally? Want to: find a greater range of vocal expression, unlock the full potential of what your voice can do in performance, support your breath to get to the ends of Shakespeare lines, reach audiences with the unique power of your inner life expressed outwardly? This class will serve as a primer on the thrillingly physical Barrantes Voice System being taught by one of the earliest certified teachers of its techniques. Itself based on the storied Roy Hart techniques, the BVS approach explores the multi-octave voice in application to text in performance, while engaging the body in a way that supports the breath, the voice, and your imagination.
For the first class, students must be prepared with a short piece of text memorized to work with, ideally something image-filled or heightened in language (Shakespeare works beautifully but isn't necessary - poetry of all kinds also works well). Students should come prepared to move, get physical, and possibly break a small sweat.
October 22, October 29, November 5, November 12, November 19, December 3
*Please note, students under 18 require permission from the moderator to take this academy class. If you’re in this category, please reach out to us at academy@antaeus.org.
About Adam J. Smith
Adam J. Smith is a multi-award-winning actor, director, teacher, and coach. ANTAEUS credits include The Winter’s Tale, Hamlet, Cloud 9, As You Like It, Henry IV Part One, and The Curse of Oedipus. Selected theater work includes Pasadena Playhouse, CTG/Kirk Douglas & Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Disney Concert Hall, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Chautauqua Theater Company (NY), numerous Off- and Off-Off-B’way. On-camera work includes Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Parts I & II, Taken 3, The Good Doctor, Jane the Virgin, Orville, Scandal, Castle, 90210, Medium, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, among others. He won a 2006 Regional Emmy Award for When Things Get Small. As a teacher, he’s been on the Acting faculty at CalArts School of Theater for 15 years. Elsewhere, he’s taught at South Coast Rep, The Acting Corps, and was honored for teaching undergrads “With Distinction” while earning his MFA in Acting from UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse.
