The Language Project

The Language Project

In January, 2025, APT will debut The Language Project, an 18-day intensive course that will infuse the next generation of actors with the skills to confidently take on poetic language.

The mission of The Language Project is to liberate the actor through deliberate examination of the text.

Actors will learn to first collaborate with the playwright by examining the play's architecture: the choice of words and how they're laid out on the page, the use of poetical and rhetorical devices, of punctuation, spelling and spacing. This work is to illuminate and honor the playwright's intention. In demystifying the process of investigating these plays, actors will gain the freedom to make authentic, specific choices that have been sparked by the play itself.

The Language Project will be led by Core Company actors James Ridge and Tracy Michelle Arnold, who will bring their more than 50 years of combined experience inhabiting these plays. They will joined by other APT artists throughout the program.

The inaugural session is January 2-18, 2025 and will be held at American Players Theatre in Spring Green. Courses and housing will be included in the program. Applications will be available by October 1st and will be accepted through October 18, 2024.

More information will be posted here as it becomes available.