The Good Kind of Blocking

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This Workshop is part of the Hideout Forever! Fundraiser workshop series. Proceeds go to the effort to build The Hideout’s new home at Art Hub ATX. Find out more about how you can help The Hideout build our new home 25 years downtown. 

Saturday Afternoon Workshop (2.5hrs)
The Good Kind of Blocking
with Rebecca East

Ever feel trapped onstage in a 2 person scene? Feel like you never explore the full stage space when performing? This workshop will get you out of our heads but into our bodies. Learn to feel more empowered to endow your environment and utilize the environments you create. We will also work on feeling more confident as the directors of our scenes, to create unique theatrical blocking, based on our character’s emotions, objectives, and circumstances. Let’s get rid of those 2 person scenes where characters just stand and talk to each other center stage!
This class is open to graduates of Level One or above. 

2-4:30pm on Saturday, November 1 (pay what you can $29/$39/$50)

Bio:

Rebecca East has worked as a director, actor, designer, technician, and educator in theatre and improv comedy spaces. She has worked for organizations such as Zach Theater, The Paramount Theater, The Hideout Theatre, and ColdTowne Theater in administrative, management, and teaching positions as well as did a stint working for Austin ISD, working as a Theatre Arts and Dance teacher. Currently she works with ColdTowne-Upright Citizens Brigade Theater as their Community Coordinator, organizing and hosting events for comedy students, faculty and staff. In 2025 she was made the Managing Director of the Austin Sketch Fest, Austin TX’s sketch-comedy festival, and brought in performers from all over the USA. Onstage she has been seen performing sketch and improv at The Hideout Theatre (The Big Bash), ColdTowne Theatre (Motherwound; Heartbreakers; Deep
In The Heartless Texas) and at Fallout Theater with Jane “Austin” Improv, the B. Iden Payne award-winning improv troupe. Outside of her improv pursuits she can be seen at Texas Performing Arts and The Long Center for The Performing Arts in Austin, TX overseeing the technical theater staff who work on some of Austin’s biggest Broadway and touring acts.