East Los Angeles College Theater Arts Acting Program

05/29/2024

Congratulations to our ELAC Actors Julia Chavez and Tony Jimenez! Thank you to our education partners Center Theatre Group for this opportunity!

03/18/2024

TODAY! COME LEARN about PAID ARTS INTERNSHIPS!

01/10/2024

11/03/2023

Come on down and check out our audition workshop on November 21st from 3:30pm-5:30pm! Meet the directors, pick up your audition material and learn about our Spring Main Stage shows ELECTRICIDAD and COLOSSAL! Auditions will be on Saturday December 9th, but this workshop is super casual, so you can ask all the questions you need. No experience necessary! Follow us on IG too.

10/29/2023

SUBMISSIONS DUE for Student Winter One Acts! Reach out today to get on the list of possible directors, playwrights, and stage managers for this year's Student Winter One Acts!

07/28/2023

Dialects for Performance: Theater Arts 246, Section #14284 (online), Section #24398 (in-person).
Tuesdays/ Thursdays 10:35am-12pm.

Enroll in one section, but you can take it online or come in person....whichever you prefer. This is a great class for those interested in working in Voice Over animation or performance. Or just an opportunity to play around with your voice and different dialects!

07/24/2023

ELAC finally has a Musical Theater Class! Enroll today for FALL 2023. In this class you will learn how to prepare songs for musical theater auditions, learn some musical theater history and how to get work as a musical theater performer! Classes are Tuesdays: 5:45pm-9:55pm. Enroll today! THEATER ARTS 283.

07/12/2023

Summer 2023 Shakespeare Workshop this Friday & Saturday at 7:00pm! Come on down to support and see what we have been working on this summer. ELAC alumni all over town are performing in professional Shakespeare shows and they all started with this workshop....you don't want to miss it:)

03/17/2023

So excited for Monday!! Join us in person at ELAC, or on Zoom, to hear Christian Barillas moderate an important conversation with powerhouse CDs Nicole Arbusto and Carla Hool. Thank you .of.east.la for making it happen! ALL are welcome:) RSVP to [email protected]

12/01/2022

ELAC students come on down this Saturday, December 3rd from 10am-2:00pm, to ELAC to audition for our Spring Shows! The amazing Rodney Lloyd Scott will be holding auditions for his production of "THE AFRICAN THEATER COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III" and the fabulous Jim Buglewicz is in need of actors for his production of THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH. Sides available in P2 Lobby. DM me for more info:)

07/13/2022

Summer Shakespeare Workshop shows only a couple of days away!!! Check out what the ELAC Theater Department has been up to these past 5 weeks! 1 ticket, 2 shows! Check out www.elactheater.org for more info!……………….

05/23/2022

05/20/2022

AUDITIONS for all the FALL shows THIS Saturday, May 21st from 10am-2:00pm in the P2 Building. Sides and more information can be found at www.elactheater.org. No previous experience needed!! Look forward to seeing you!

05/06/2022

Audition Workshop tomorrow, Saturday May 7th, 10am-12pm! Come on down to get the sides and chat with the directors for the next round of auditions for our FALL 2022 ELAC productions. No prep necessary, super casual, informative and fun!

04/22/2022

SUMMER SHAKESPEARE ACTING WORKSHOP

The Theater Arts Department's Summer Shakespeare Workshop is back on campus this summer! Join us in Summer Session 1 for classes in text, stage combat, voice and performance....all centered around Shakespeare's plays. Workshop will end in a LIVE show of your work on Friday July 15th.
Classes are in the evening.

Auditions are this Tuesday, April 26th in the P2 Building, Room 201 from 3:30pm-5:30pm.

Please prepare 12-14 lines of Shakespeare.
*No experience needed​....just come and have fun*

Any questions, please email Vanessa Pellegrini at [email protected]

01/21/2022

Want to learn about the industry on both coasts?
Professor Pellegrini is teaming up with a NYC college professor, so you get to work with NY theater directing students AND hear from them about working in NYC and vice versa. Network and build skills to be a professional actor!
Enroll today to save your spot.
Questions? Email [email protected]

01/17/2022

Congrats Gabriela!!! Check out www.anoisewithin.org for show info.
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If you are an ELAC acting student and you want to know how to be considered for our next round of fellowship auditions, look out for info on our Summer Shakespeare Workshop. Sign ups and auditions will be in March/April………. bobturtonphotography

12/14/2021

Come on down to ELAC tomorrow for our Winter One Act Auditions! Tons of roles to be cast in and no experience needed. These one acts are student written, student directed and now we need student actors:)

11/30/2021

Deadlines for Student Playwrights for ELAC's Winter One Acts and for Applications for our A Noise Within Internship are tomorrow! See flyers below and submit to us today:) Any questions, email Vanessa at [email protected]

11/22/2021

ELAC actors….check out this amazing opportunity!!

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11/20/2021

HAPPENING TODAY!! Come on down and audition for our LIVE Spring Shows! Sides can be found on our website or just come on down and we will give you them there! ALL ROLES OPEN! No experience needed! www.elactheater.org

11/05/2021

This Saturday 10am-12pm come on down to the P2 Theater Building at ELAC for some pan dulce and to talk about the next ELAC Theater Productions. This will be an informal conversation with Directors and to go over the projects, how the auditions on 11/20 will be run and what to prepare! Come on down:)……………………………………

10/19/2021

Don't miss ELAC Theater Alumni, Gabriela Maldonado in Culture Clash's 'Chavez Ravine: In 9 Innings' now on CTG's Digital Streaming platform. Gabriela reprises her role as Maria, which she performed in the ELAC production of CHAVEZ RAVINE, directed by Ramiro Segovia in 2018, which was then featured at KCACTF that year. Congrats Gabby!!
https://youtu.be/SCb901dc0sM

Now Playing on the Digital Stage through December 6.Originally commissioned by Center Theatre Group and premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in 2003, Chavez Rav...

09/10/2021

This is a great opportunity for any alumni who are interested in moving to NY and getting into casting. Deadline tomorrow!

The Telsey Office in partnership with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Luis Miranda , and the Miranda Family launch The Telsey Office Miranda Casting Fellowship. To apply, please go to: https://tinyurl.com/Miranda-Casting-Fellowship-App

Application deadline extended through September 10th!

07/16/2021

Summer Shakespeare Actors filming their monologues! Check out their live show tonight and tomorrow night at East LA’s Civic Center Park @ 8pm. Free admission!

06/27/2021

Casting Call! Do you or someone you know fit the casting breakdown? If so, submit your headshot and resume ASAP to: [email protected]
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05/24/2021

ATTN HONORS STUDENTS! Check out this summer class and enroll today or share with anyone you think may be interested:)

05/17/2021

JOIN US this Wednesday with the amazing artist, Lorna Silva!

Bio: Lorna Silva is an improviser, actor, writer, translator, director and above all, a storyteller. She is a graduate of the Second City Hollywood Directing Program. Lorna is an ensemble member of Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble, Off the Tracks Theater in Southern California and GHB Producciones (virtually) in Mexico. Lorna teaches improv in Spanish all over Los Angeles. She has studied with Comedy Sportz, Impro Theatre and UCB in the United States, and with master teachers in Spain and Latin America. Lorna recently collaborated with CTG on their IN THE MOMENT series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubyQxOKfPC8

05/12/2021

ELAC Students...check out this casting call for Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum. This is a great Equity Theater to be involved with and where I actually earned by EQUITY card:)

The New Play Exchange ® (NPX) is the world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers. The NPX, a National New Play Network program, is flipping the script on the ways in which new work is shared and discovered. National New Play Network (NNPN) is an alliance of professional theaters th...

02/12/2021

CONGRATS to our ELAC Theater students!! So proud of you—awesome job! Way to go!