Workshops

Workshops

Workshops

A Casting Workshop: Audition From Your Strengths

A Casting Workshop: Audition From Your Strengths Actor Improvisation Workshop Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Through an objective process, students discover three or four character types derived from their "look" and personal qualities. Then working on targeted material, actors learn to fulfill each character in order to present themselves as a complete, castable, acting package.

Actor Improvisation Workshop

Actor Improvisation Workshop Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Emphasis is on the actor rather than performer improvisation. Organic behavior and emotional truth are valued over cleverness. Teaches physical and vocal risk-taking, impulse work and a personal sense of truth. Numerous improv formats are motivated by both internal and external circumstances.

Acting With The Camera

Acting With The Camera Workshop - Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Exercises, monologues and scenes leading to the internalization of emotion needed for on-camera behavior. Students also learn how to adjust for different frame sizes, get accustomed to camera terms, direct, operate camera, and deal with realistic set conditions.

Character Masks

Character Masks Workshop - Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

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.

Dirty Acting

Dirty Acting Workshop - Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Designed to promote lively, truthful, "dangerous,” moment-to-moment work. Emphasis on risk-taking, impulses, awareness, bold choices and follow-through. Eliminates actor tension, stale performance habits, personal cliches and artificial behavior.

Physical and Vocal Adjustments

Physical and Vocal Adjustments Workshop - Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Characters probably do not look or talk exactly like you do. Actors experiment and learn how to take physical and vocal risks while integrating these choices into the emotional life of the character.

The Actors Emotional Preparation

The Actors Emotional Preparation Workshop - Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Learning what do just before an entrance – how to make strong choices and internalize them right before a character enters. Based on the actor’s choices of intention and obstacle, the right emotional preparation carries the actor through the scene without any need for pushing or falsification.

Sounding Shakespeare

Sounding Shakespeare Workshop - Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Emphasis on the connection between sound and meaning in Shakespeare. After a sensitizing process, students "sound" the text, putting on Shakespeare's "vocal mask" in order to discover and connect the palpable emotional life. Based on the work of Kristin Linklater. Exercises, monologues, scenes.

Testimonials

"You are a shining example of everything a teacher should be; inspired and inspiring, positive, challenging, interested, supportive, unbelievably skilled, intelligent and talented at what you are teaching us, and maybe the most important thing, you seem to love it! We are all so fortunate to have you turn your light on us, sweep us up into your beam, and inspire and help us in all the ways that you do. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!”
Elizabeth Cross, Actress

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