Fall Classes Resources

Fall Classes

Fall Classes Resources

Risky Business: Courageous Choices (Fall)

Physical and Vocal Characterization the Frisch Approach

Int/Advanced - Online
12 Sundays, 10 AM - 12:30 PST
Begins September 15

This class reveals the kind of choices available to the actor. Choices: Selecting them, preparing them, fulfilling them, assessing them. The right and risky choice can get the job, deliver surprising and dynamic characters, and offer audiences interpretations of penetrating insight.

Character Masks (Fall)

Character Masks (Fall)

Int./Advanced - Santa Barbara

12 Sundays, 6:30 PM–9:30 PM PST

Begins September 15th

The classic "outside-in" discipline
employing a unique collection of celastic masks in the French tradition. Precise character development from the mirror leads to full-blown characters. Behind the "safety" of the mask, actors learn to work boldly and break through habitual limitations.

Projections (Fall)

Projections (Fall)

Intermediate/Advanced – Carpinteria

11 Thursdays, 12:00PM-2:30PM PST

Begins September 19 (No class 11/28)

The revolutionary approach to developing a character’s emotional life employing the power of the actor’s deepest imagination to create vibrant, lasting images and feelings. These images and feelings support, enliven and deepen. You actually experience the character’s experiences!

Playing From your Strengths

Expanding Range and Depth The Frisch Approach

Adv. Beginner/Advanced - ¬Online
14 Wednesdays 10 am–12:30 pm (Pacific)

Begins January 29th

Students discover and learn to play three to five diverse character types that perfectly match their "look" and presentation. Actors emerge with much greater self-knowledge and confidence in their auditions. Important guidance for headshots, websites and all self-promotion.

Acting With The Camera

Acting With The Camera Workshop - Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Adv. Beginner/Advanced – SB

14 Thursdays, 12 Noon-2:30 pm

Begins January 30th
Framing, set terminology, playing opposite emotion, vulnerability in close-up – this is a thorough introduction for actors, both new to camera and cameras vets. A vital class to create consistently dynamic and surprising work on camera. Great for auditions, too!

Testimonials

"Most acting classes offer scene study and critique, but it is much more unusual to run into someone who is willing and able to guide the actor through several scenes from a feature-length script, with cameras, in order to create the experience of developing a character in a real film. This difference has clearly made a difference — at least if the performances I observed at Maravilla are any indications. The talent on display was noticeable, but even more impressive was the discipline, as well as the strong sense of an entire cast and crew working as a team. Come to think of it, the best analogy would be to an actual film set, which is, I suppose, the point."
Donelan
The SB Independent

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