

How We Create a Safe Space
Acting training requires an exploration of your vulnerability. Learn how we make our space safe for your growth. Student, Henry Ainsworth performs his original work for the first time. Emily Firth, one of our acting faculty members explains Berridge to be a "coming of age experience" where students can "find and express their voice through the medium of acting." This is a perfect description of what a student's first time at Berridge might be all about. Acting may largely be
Ian Soares
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I learned to act in a barn in France, and it changed my life.
Berridge alum Ian Soares (Class of 2015) writes about his experience on our Summer Acting Program at Chateau le Mont Epinguet in...
Ian Soares
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Empowering Artists Since 2008: An Interview with Berridge Director Andrea Mardon
November is "Artistic Empowerment Month" here at Berridge Programs! Here, company founder and director Andrea Mardon tells us tells us what artistic empowerment means to her and how Berridge accomplishes it. How did you get the idea for Berridge France? I stayed at Chateau le Mont Epinguet on vacation back in 2005. I was running study abroad programs for a big outfit in New York City, but I’d trained as an actor. And I’d just thought it be so amazing to get all these professi
nicholaskovari
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Faculty Spotlight: Katie Royer
Alum and faculty member Katie Royer shares her story of falling love with Berridge 13 years ago. Ian: Tell me a little about yourself!...
Ian Soares
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Saturday Nights in the Barn
Read about our longstanding tradition of open performance nights in our Barn and Amphitheater. Berridge has always been a place where...
Ian Soares
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Acting Shakespeare the easy way.
Actor and Berridge Shakespeare teacher Simon Purse re-kindles of love of acting Shakespeare with the Cue Script Technique. Sometimes it...
Simon Purse
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Why an Arts Education is Worth It.
With tuition costs raising and jobs dwindling during the pandemic, here's why an arts education is still worth it. In the United States...
Ian Soares
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