Solo Performance Conservatory (SPC) is devoted to practicing, developing and teaching 
the art and craft of solo performance. Through in-person and on-line offerings we wish to provide a comprehensive curriculum, a nurturing community, and performance opportunities that will support you in bringing forth your most soulful, innovative, and well-crafted work.

Why a Conservatory?

Somebody stands on stage talking to an audience. Simple, right?  Well… yes, and no.

Here’s how we think about solo performance…

Anyone can do it. 

Solo performance is inclusive and accessible. This is one of the form’s great virtues.

At the same time, solo performance is uniquely demanding. 

Doing the best work one is capable of requires patience, courage to take risks, a commitment to both craft and soul-deepening, and a willingness to develop many skill sets.

The form is elegant and adaptable. 

There is no ossified code for how to do it. We can incorporate new styles, new techniques, new technologies, new voices.

Solo shows give a unique gift to audiences.  

A solo show is an intimate and connected experience. There is something life-giving about being in a room with ten to 300 other people with one person on stage connecting directly to us. This is increasingly true in a time when most of us get most of our stories from a screen, and often watch them alone.

Given all this, we believe solo performance should be thought about, and practiced, as a distinct form. 

We are performers, teachers, coaches and directors who have been working together in solo performance for three decades as part of an artistic community in San Francisco. We are passionate about this form. We have pushed its boundaries. We have succeeded and failed. Our shows won awards and gone unheralded. Through it all we have maintained a passion for this form, for pushing its boundaries, for seeing what else it can do.

Our goal with Solo Performance Conservatory is to pass along what we and others have discovered to the next generation of artists.