Soaring Solo’s SOLO LAB: Preparing, Performing & Producing a Solo Show

Soaring Solo Studios presents SOLO LAB, a series of Webinars FOR Solo Artists BY Solo Artists. This webinar focuses on preparing, performing & producing a Solo Show.

Join multi-talented and majorly accomplished Soaring Solo Artist Celeste Walker for this 90 minute virtual workshop where you will learn how to prepare a solo show script for stage, perform compelling characters, tell an entertaining story and produce your own work.

Whether you are just toying with the idea of writing a solo show, have a few excerpts written down, completed a first draft or are already perfoming your one person play, this webinar will meet you where you are and take you to the next level!

This webinar will also feature a robust Q&A with Celeste for you to pick her brilliant brain about her solo theatre journey.

Some of the topics covered will be…

-How to write both a biographical and an autobiographical solo show

- How to write and perform compelling characters

-How to utilize technical elements such as images and sound design to enhance your solo story

- Tips for performing in festivals all around the country

– Solo show performance technique & character distinction in voice, body, and text

And so much more!

About the Solo Lab instructor:

Celeste M. Walker, hails from Philadelphia. She has an MFA in Acting from The Actor’s Studio Drama School at the New School University in New York. She is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio and a member of Actors Equity. She has appeared off Broadway and in theatres in New York City, New Jersey, the Lehigh Valley, California and Philadelphia.

Not only is Celeste an accomplished actor, she is also a pedagogy professional with more than thirty-five years of experience. Instructional expertise in a wide range of settings including traditional classroom, master classes, workshops, and private studies. She has extensive experience as a theatre producer, administrator, director, performer, organizer and Host for TEDx and has been an adjunct professor at multiple universities.

Her first solo show, MR. PARKER, INDULGENCES WITH DOROTHY was about the writer and Algonquin Roundtable member, Dorothy Parker. Her autobiographical solo show, “COLETTE RELOADED,” premiered at the 2016 Philly Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA and was part of The White Pines Productions Series in Philadelphia and The Selkie Theatre in Bethlehem. Her latest solo show, GHOSTED, had its World Premiere at United Solo Festival in New York City in April 2024, was featured at The Philadelphia Fringe Festival in September 2024, was performed at the Civic Theatre in Allentown, PA in November of 2024 at the Binge Fringe Festival at the Santa Monica Playhouse in March 2025 and at the Dickens Parlour Theatre in Ocean View Delaware.

LAB info and policies:

Tuition for this workshop is just $29 and is non refundable & there is no cancellation for this event. We will be recording this workshop, so if you can not attend LIVE, you will receive the recording later to view.