Designed for small groups to maximize personal attention, our workshops are designed to accomodate up to 10 people. With day, evening, work week and weekend workshops, our schedules are set with your convenience in mind.
Because of the relatively small number of potential students for each of the different workshops, we found it more effective to schedule each workshop after sufficient interest in and/or requests for a particular session have been made. This method also allows us to discuss with each student their personal schedules and plan the workshop times which best suit everyone. Once a workshop is scheduled, you will see the day, times, and starting date for that workshop listed with it's description. If you are interested in a particular workshop and it has not yet been scheduled, click the "Put me on list" button to the right of the workshop's description. When sufficient students have been obtained, you will be contacted.
Private Lessions
Private study may cover a single segment or a mixture of different areas of interest from any of the following courses. Call or Email for an individual appointment.
Price $65/hour or $300 for block of six, 1-hour sessions.
Film Workshops
An intimate medium, actors develop camera presence, exercise crucial tools, create character from truth, experience film energy, explore accessing emotions, learn to be in the moment, and work on a film set.
Beginning On-Camera
A six week course that meets two hours once a week and introduces the actor to commercials, television, and film with two weeks devoted to each medium.
Price $175
Actors receive a DVD copy of their work.
In Session - Adult Workshop: Tuesdays, 6:30 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. Started March 20,2007
In Session - Teen Workshop: Thursdays, 4:30 P.M. - 6:30 P.M., Started March 22, 2007
Intermediate Film
A six week course that meets for two hours once a week with additional rehearsal time.
Price $195
Actors develop one monologue and one scene for filming.
Showcase screening of the actor's scene.
Live performance of the monologue
Actors receive a DVD copy of their work.
Advanced Film
A professional shoot of a one-to-five minute film short for an actor's demo reel. A minimum of two actors required. Possible screening on YouTube and film festivals.
Price $250
Actors receive a DVD copy of their work.
includes a showcase screening of scenes.
Television Workshops
Sit-coms, reality-style, television dramas, soaps, and news-style programming each have their own unique rhythm and demands. Actors wishing to build a career in television will have the opportunity to experience each style or concentrate in one area. Practice using cue cards, working with multiple cameras, timing, and working with cold copy.
Intermediate Television
An eight week course that meets for two hours once a week and is devoted to television with two weeks devoted to sit-com, television drama, soaps, and news-style programming.
Price $195
Actors receive a DVD copy of their work.
Advanced Television
Six weeks intensive work with green screen, continuity, character development, analyzing text, working with props, camera awareness. Actors receive a DVD demo of their work.
Price $195
A showcase screening of scenes.
Actors receive a DVD copy of their work.
Commercials Workshops
Develop cold reading auditioning techniques, create relationship with the camera, define your unique style and quality, work with green screen, and physical and vocal energy for commercials, as well as, commercial styles.
Intermediate Commercials
On-going. Meets for one hour, once a week. Simulates an actual audition situation. Actors audition with cold copy to improve their auditioning techniques. Must sign up the week before.
Price $10 each session
Theatre Workshops
Auditioning, scene study, monologues, voice and body, styles and methods
Audition
A twelve week course using Michael Shurtleff;s 12 Guideposts. Actors should have a copy of the book, AUDITION, by Michael Shurtleff.
$250 or $25 each session
Scene Study
Meets for two hours, once a week for eight weeks. Break down character beats. Determine spine, drive, action, plot of story. Define what each character wants.
Price $200 plus cost of script
Monologues
Meets for two hours, once a week for four weeks. Develop one monologue for audition purposes.
Price $100
Voice and Body
On-going. Meets for one hour once a week. Must sign up the previous week. Concentration on voice and body problems that limit range and ability for each individual actor.
Price $10 per session
Styles and Methods
An eight week course that meets for two hours once a week. Actors study and perform scenes from the Greeks, Moliere, Shakespeare, Noel Coward, Ibsen, Brecht, and Miller using the methods of Stanislavski, Stella Adler, and Meisner.
Actors receive a DVD copy of their work.