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Encore: Acting for Adults 60+

  • Encore: Acting for Adults 60+
A promotional graphic for an acting class features a headshot of Robin Hughes, labeled as Producer & Director. Text highlights a storytelling class for ages 60+, held Saturdays from April 4–May 9, 2026, with an Enroll Now! button.

Encore: Acting for Adults 60+
with director and choreographer Robin Hughes

Ages: 60+
Saturdays | April 4 – May 9, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Cost: $150 

Join us for this fun storytelling course developed specifically for adults 60+. In Encore Acting: Storytelling, we will focus on the interactive art of creating, recalling, and telling stories. Through the study of story development, students will fashion stories to share and will explore how to bring characters and stories to life. An understanding and appreciation of the craft of the storyteller is gained through development, writing, presentation, and critical feedback, as well as lively discussion and participation. This class will culminate in a final showcase of stories for friends and family. “After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” by Philip Pullman

ENROLL
Tuition: $150
MEET THE INSTRUCTOR
A woman with curly red hair and fair skin is smiling softly at the camera. She is wearing a dark jacket over a turtleneck sweater and a necklace. The background shows a kitchen with wooden cabinets and a window.

Robin M. Hughes (Instructor) Teacher, director, actor, and casting director, Robin began professionally in theatre in Minneapolis at The Guthrie Theater with Garland Wright (Christmas Carol), acting in Joanne Akalaitis’ world premiere of The Rover, and working on Akalaitis’ The Screens and Pravda with Goodman’s Robert Falls. Awarded Steppenwolf’s Acting Fellowship, Robin was in The Ballad of Little Joe (world premiere) directed by Tina Landau and worked with Anna Shapiro (Side Man), David Cromer (Orson’s Shadow), Jessica Thebus (Whispering City), John Malkovich (Hysteria), and Terry Kinney (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest). Regional credits include Victory Gardens, Little Theatre On the Square, Williams Street Repertory, Paramount-Copley, Griffin, Circle, Light Opera Works, Theatre in the Round, New Millennium, Metropolis, Bailiwick, Mary-Arrchie, Circa 21, G&S Light Opera, and Phipps Center. Robin is an Adjunct Theatre Instructor with Dominican University-River Forest. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Illinois State University and is a graduate of the Steppenwolf School. Robin is also a proud full member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers union.