TRAINING PROGRAMS

Mercury Store offers a variety of training opportunities for professional artists, including workshops at a subsidized rate. Open to everyone, they cover both the practicalities of the life of an artist (unions, unemployment, e.g.) and artistic practice (directing fundamentals, independent producing, rehearsal processes, e.g.) 

We also offer application-only longer programs, including Directing Technique:

• Directing Technique is for early career directors. The purpose of the class is to strengthen and grow directorial practice; learn to solicit and receive useful feedback; and build artistic community.

• Meets over five Monday evenings led by Mercury Store staff.

• Topics include: ground plan and staging approaches, dramaturgical preparation, tension and rhythm in directing, and work with both dramatic and non-dramatic texts.

• All assignments and exercises are designed to build skills, refine technique, and explore craft. This is essentially a “return to the barre,” an opportunity to practice the fundamentals of directorial practice.

Applications for the Spring/Summer '25 cycles of Directing Technique are now open through March 9th.

Classes are open to anyone on a first come, first served basis and are typically $20 for a panel, $35 for a one session workshop and $60 for a two session workshop.

Upcoming classes are listed on Eventbrite.