Risky Business: Courageous Choices

• Intermediate/Advanced
• In person in Santa Barbara!
• 12-Week fall session begins Sunday evening, September 19th
• Limit 12 actors

Acting choices: selecting them, preparing them, fulfilling them, assessing them.  The right and risky choice can get the job, deliver dynamic characters, guarantee that your work is consistently memorable, and offer audiences interpretations of originality and penetrating insight. 

 What kinds of choices are there?  How do you go about testing a choice?  Why do certain choices work and others not?  In Courageous Choices, actors discover the numerous choices at their disposal, exercise appropriate preparation in order to test the choice fully, and learn to evaluate the results with objectivity and artistic judgment.

A few of the many categories of choices covered include: Intention, Motivation, Obstacle, Emotional Preparation, Physical, Vocal, Speech and  Behavioral Adjustments, Transitions, Beats and Units, Text and Hidden Circumstances, Text Choices, Independent Activities, Text decisions, Internalizing Props, Costumes, and Set Pieces, and more.

N.B. All courses progress in a logical and consecutive sequence. Furthermore, students are frequently turned away once the maximum number of participants has been reached. For these reasons, students who begin the session agree to commit to the entire session and are, therefore, financially responsible for that session.     

Write to [email protected] or call 805.451.6789 to register, ask any questions or to schedule a complimentary interview