Students will learn how to select and prepare appropriate audition material for conservatory/college auditions, graduate school (MFA/MA programs) and professional auditions.

Students will learn and develop necessary skills for auditioning for film and television, including how to analyze sides, adapt to direction and feedback, and what to expect in the audition room when working with casting professionals.

Students will be introduced to the business skills required for working in the profession, including résumés, headshots, auditions, agents, casting directors, unions and other aspects related to the development of a professional actor’s career in film, television and theatre. 

In this course, students will gain an experiential understanding of improvisational acting and develop strong moment-to-moment skills that are essential to spontaneity and creativity in scripted work. Through theatre games and exercise-work, students will develop tools to increase their listening/responding skills and to become more trusting of their own impulses.

Today’s working actor often knows how to create and produce their own work. This course will provide you with a more comprehensive understanding of how to get your own unique project off the ground, including the business skills necessary for navigating issues regarding copyright, budgeting, producing and managing a collaborative production.

Students will learn how to approach and analyze Shakespeare’s heightened text, with a primary focus on connection and bringing this language to life truthfully and spontaneously. Students will also gain a better understanding of how to select the most appropriate monologue material for auditions.

Expanding upon techniques learned in Voice for the Actor, this elective provides an opportunity to explore how to approach and work with texts in the major dialects of English.

Designed for beginning to intermediate actors who want a deeper understanding of working in film and television, including the “business of the business,” this Intensive provides a professional and thorough understanding of the on-camera process and how to alleviate the anxiety of working on camera.

Course of study:
Acting Technique - 8 hours per week
Audition Technique for Film & Television - 6 hours per week
Working in Film - 4 hours per week
Sitcom Acting - 4 hours per week
Commercial Technique - 2 hours per week

Training: Excite and release the storyteller inside of you! Discover and expand the relaxed, free and truthful use of self in imaginary circumstances; develop trust in spontaneous, moment-to-moment reactions and learn how to apply these techniques to dramatic texts.

Coursework: Exercises for relaxation, concentration and sensitivity to fellow actors, as well as internal and external stimuli to achieve focus and involvement, leading to dramatic analysis, improvisation and scene study.

Training: Add strength and emotional range to the natural voice; develop the voice as an instrument of communication on and off stage.

Coursework: Principles of voice production are applied through structured exercises for optimal vocal health, audibility, breath efficiency, articulation, intonation, resonance and phrasing.

Training: Develop the body as an instrument for the actor in order to engage in dynamic physical expressivity.

Coursework: Movement techniques and exercises are taught to increase flexibility and to develop the actors’ imagination, muscular coordination and control.

On Tuesday evenings, dive into an Acting & Scene Study session to build core performance skills, rehearse, and refine your creative approach to a scene.

On Thursdays, shift focus to on-camera technique, blocking, and recording those scenes in an engaging Acting for Camera studio session.

Course of study:
Acting & Scene Study - 3 hours per week (Tuesday)
Acting for Camera - 3 hours per week (Thursday)