407F Spring 2026 Reader’s Theater

407F  Reader’s Theater
Eight sessions
Instructors: Wendy Campbell, Kathie West
Class limit: 20
Thursdays, 9:40—11:05, Mar. 26—May 14
This course will provide a forum for OLLI students to hone reading and performing skills. Students will present readings, either self-chosen or provided by the instructor. Readings may be by a single performer or 2-4 individuals. Critiques will be provided in order to help each other improve skills, and pieces will be repeated as students wish. No memorization is required. Students will continue with their own choice of poem, monologue, duet, lyrics, and scenes to perform. Lots of fun and socialization involved.
Wendy Campbell is a curriculum developer and a re-enactor. She taught in the gifted program in Fairfax County Public Schools for 20 years, introducing 10-12-year olds to the wonders of Shakespeare, Plautus, and Sophocles. 
Kathie West, an OLLI member, is a former actor of the Pittsburg Theatre and a past theater teacher at Robert E. Lee High School and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. She was also the director of OLLI Players.