Betty Buckley to Offer Song and Monologue Master Class With T. Schreiber Studio

Registration is now open for Schreiber Studio's online Song & Monologue Workshop taught by Tony Award-winner, Theatre Hall of Fame Honoree, and legendary Broadway star, Betty Buckley. Ms. Buckley’s emotional connection to her work is renowned. That very connection is at the heart of what she imparts to her students. This online course enables actors and singers the opportunity to work with her from anywhere in the world.

A teacher for more than 50 years, Ms. Buckley’s workshop is a masterclass and must for people who want to perfect their ability to most effectively communicate in their performance. Ms. Buckley will share her expertise and guide her students through a methodology that facilitates audience connection through songs and monologues. The class also welcomes observers.

The T. Schreiber Studio is one of the foremost professional theater studios in New York City and is a home and training ground for many artists who have gone on to successful careers in theater, film, and television.

T. Schreiber’s Song & Monologue Master Class meets online Tuesdays from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST starting February 17 through March 24. For more information, visit tschreiber.org.

ABOUT Betty Buckley 

Betty Buckley is a legendary, multi-award-winning actress/singer whose career spans theater, film, television  and concert halls around the world. She is a 2012 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee and the 2017 recipient of  the Julie Harris Awards from The Actor’s Fund for Artistic Achievement and received The Lifetime  Achievement Award from The American Songbook Association in 2023. 

She won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats  and received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as  Hesione in Triumph of Love. She received an Olivier Award nomination for her critically acclaimed  interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard,  which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway. 

Ms. Buckey is featured in the film By Design, written and directed by Amanda Kramer and it made its debut  at The Sundance Film Festival in January 2025. She is also featured in the film Eternity for A24 Studios  starring Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen released in November 2025. In March 2024, she co-starred in Imaginary for Blumhouse Productions and released by Lionsgate. She co-starred with James McAvoy in the M. Night Shyamalan hit film Split, one of the top International box office hits of 2017. She received a Saturn Award  Nomination for Best Featured Actress for her work in the film.  

Her other films include her debut in Brian De Palma’s screen version of Stephen King’s Carrie, Bruce  Beresford’s Tender Mercies, Roman Polanski’s Frantic, Woody Allen’s Another Woman, Lawrence Kasden’s  Wyatt Earp and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening. 

In 2024, The Mayfly, an animated short film written, produced and narrated by Ms. Buckley played the film festival circuit and won several awards, including Best of Festival, Best Director and Best 2D Character Based Animation at The Los Angeles Animation Festival. The film also won Best Animation at The Lady Filmmakers Festival in Los Angeles. A love letter to New York City and music, The Mayfly is a lyrical tale that was inspired by a true event at the Café Carlyle. 

Her other Broadway credits include 1776, Pippin, Song and Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Carrie.  She headlined the first National Tour of the new Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! in 2018/2019. 

Off-Broadway credits include the world premiere of Horton Foote’s The Old Friends, for which she received a Drama Desk Nomination in 2014, White Lies, Lincoln Center’s Elegies, the original NYSF production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Eros Trilogy, Juno’s Swans and Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road. Regional credits include The Perfectionist, Gypsy, The Threepenny Opera, Camino Real, Buffalo  Gal, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Old Friends at Houston’s Alley Theatre and Grey Gardens at the Bay Street  Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY and The Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles in 2016 for which she received an  Ovation Award Nomination.  

In London, she starred in Promises, Promises for which she was nominated for An Evening Standard Award and in the 2013 British premiere of Dear World.  

On television, Buckley had a recurring role on Law & Order SVU for NBC. She co-starred in the third season of AMC’s hit series Preacher and has guest starred on the Fox/Warner Bros. TV show The Cleaning Lady, The CW hit Supergirl, the NBC Series Chicago Med and ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars. For HBO, she has appeared on Getting On, The Leftovers, The Pacific and for three seasons had a recurring role on OZ. She starred as Abby Bradford in the hit series Eight is Enough.