6 Month Acting Program

Adult Acting Level I & Level II 

Two 2-hour classes per week.

This course introduces the core of the program.  In the first four months, the focus is on fundamental exercises in Relaxation, Concentration, Observation (the essential difference between looking and seeing, between listening and hearing), In-the-Moment Behavior and a broad panoply of Sense Memory exercises in a carefully graduated syllabus.

These exercises and techniques not only train, they reveal each student's strengths and weaknesses, stripping away the conventions and clichés that beginning actors, directors and playwrights reach for reflexively. The goal is to develop the student into an unencumbered instrument that will permit the technique to do what any technique should do: free the artist's unique talent.

The second four months is a performance class in which through exercise, improvisation, and scene work in a Stanislavski based approach, students will become aware of their instrument (body, voice, emotions, etc.) and how to use it.

Recommended for the serious actor seeking a deeper understanding of the craft with a devotion to improving their performance level.