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SCENE STUDY & MONOLOGUES MASTERCLASS

Professional Training for Seasoned Actors

Class is designed for the advanced actor, working, between jobs or ongoing
development. Text deconstruction, character analysis, audition coaching, the art
of rehearsing and vocal and physical self-awareness explorations. Two semesters
of 25, three-hour sessions that meet once a week and conclude in a public
showcase performance.


Nora Cole is a veteran performing artist of Broadway, off-Broadway, regional,
national and international theatre, and a director and writer. Recipient of the
Theatre Communications Group/Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship for
Distinguished Achievement, multiple AUDELCO Awardee and Drama Desk
nominee. Noracole.net

OUR INSTRUCTOR

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Nora Cole
 

Nora Cole is an Audelco Award nominee and Drama League Award nominee, best known for her acclaimed performance in Rinde Eckert’s Obie Award-winning chamber opera And God Created Great Whales, presented at the Culture Project and originally commissioned by the Foundry Theatre. The production toured nationally and internationally, with engagements at Red Cat (Los Angeles), the Barbican (London), Bonn Bienale Festival (Germany), Playmakers Repertory, MASS MoCA, and Baltimore Center Stage. She also originated the role of The Bride in Eckert’s Highway Ulysses (World Premiere) at A.R.T., directed by Robert Woodruff and featured in American Theatre Magazine.

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Cole’s extensive stage career includes work with George C. Wolfe on Caroline or Change (Royal National Theatre), On the Town (Broadway), and Jelly’s Last Jam (Broadway and national tour). Regional credits include Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Fences, and To Kill a Mockingbird at Geva; Doubt at Milwaukee Rep; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at Studio Arena; and The Colored Museum at Hartford Stage, among many others. She has also toured with Woodie King Jr.'s National Black Touring Circuit production of I Have a Dream, portraying Coretta Scott King in national and international festivals.

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She received the TCG/Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement, which supported the development of her first full-length play, Katherine’s Colored Lieutenant, based on WWII letters between her aunt and a Tuskegee Airman. Her solo works include Voices of the Spirits in My Soul (Audelco nominee) and Oliva’s Opus, both performed at major venues and festivals. A Louisville, Kentucky native, Cole trained at the Goodman School of Drama and studied with dance artists Frank Hatchett, Pepsi Bethel, and Barbara Fraser. Her screen credits include The Cosby Mystery Movies, All My Children, Loving, Another World, The Guiding Light, and WNYC’s Selected Shorts.

SCHEDULE

First Semester

  • OCTOBER 13TH - DECEMBER 15TH 

  • MONDAYS 6 PM - 9 PM 

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Second Semester

  • FEBRUARY 2ND, 2026 - May 11TH, 2026

  • MONDAYS, 6 PM – 9 PM

PAYMENT & REGISTRATION

    • Classes will be held at Houghton Hall Arts Community (22 E 30th Street New York, NY 10016)

    • The yearly tuition fee for two semesters is $425 ($212.50/semester)

    • If paid in installments, semesters are $283

    • Email workshops@newfederaltheatre.com for inquiries

  • HEADSHOT & ACTING RESUME REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION​

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