CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

This class culminates with a production in one of the Institute’s theatres and is designed to allow students to explore what it takes to bring a character to life and be a part of a production from beginning to end.  Young Actors get an opportunity to work with professional vocal and dance instructors to improve and perfect their singing, dancing, and performance ability.

This class ignites the imagination and empowers our Young Actors to trust their instincts while expressing themselves truthfully within dramatic circumstances. Relaxation, basic Sensory exercises, improvisation, and scene work are practiced to ensure artistic and technical growth in the actor’s work.

This class nurtures the Young Actor’s creativity through concentration, relaxation, and sense memory exercises designed by Lee Strasberg and applied at a level commensurate with the teenage experience. Students train in this technique to develop the actor’s ability to respond with real behavior to imaginary stimuli.

This class provides Young Actors the opportunity to tailor their work for the camera. Monologues are practiced, and critiqued for greater mastery of applying Lee Strasberg’s Method to on-camera work and to cultivate an on-camera performance. Commercials, cold reading, audition materials, scene work, and other exercises are periodically introduced in order to cultivate additional technical skills.

Working with their instructor(s), students develop the plot and their characters through a number of creative exercises. The dialogue is created through student improvisations and rehearsals. This class culminates with a production in one of the Institute’s theatres. Students gain the necessary theatre skills of discipline, commitment and cooperation that enable them to deal with director feedback, deadlines, and performances.

This class culminates with a production in one of the Institute’s theatres and is designed to allow students to explore what it takes to bring a character to life and be a part of a production from beginning to end.  Young Actors get an opportunity to work with professional vocal and dance instructors to improve and perfect their singing, dancing, and performance ability.

This class is designed to expand the Young Actor’s physical coordination, body awareness, and range of expression. Having complete control and full expression through physical behavior is a vital skill for the actor, and this class is designed to instruct Young Actors to embody their movements with expression and imagination.

This class calls for collaborative storytelling along with a vivid imagination. Students learn the rules of improv, especially the willingness to say yes to the ideas of others. The students learn to trust their instincts and their scene partner.

This class nurtures the Young Actor’s creativity through exercises designed by Lee Strasberg and applied at a level commensurate with the teenage experience. Students train in this technique to develop the actor’s ability to respond with real behavior to imaginary stimuli.  The first part of each class begins with Lee Strasberg’s relaxation technique and moves to his sequence of sensory exercises. The second part of each class is devoted to improvisation, scene work and/or monologues. The exercises and scene/monologue work continue to become more complicated with each young actor’s progress, length of study, and experience.

This class provides Young Actors the opportunity to tailor their work for the camera. Commercials, auditions, scene work, and other exercises highlight the different technical skills and adjustments required to cultivate a film performance. Cold readings, scene work, monologues, and commercial copy are introduced, practiced, and critiqued for greater mastery of applying Lee Strasberg’s Method to the medium of film, television, and commercials.

This class is designed to prepare the Method actor for auditioning in a variety of casting situations.  Students will incorporate and hone their skills from Method into audition technique skills. Students will be introduced to a variety of techniques and audition materials suitable for specific types of work such as plays, movies, soap opera, commercials, and more.

This class primarily explores the basics of Fitzmaurice Voicework®: specifically De-structuring and Re-structuring. De-structuring is the process of letting go of any unnecessary tension which inhibits the breath and voice, through Tremorwork® and adapted yoga positions. Re-structuring is the process of activating the intentional breath for communication that is free, yet focused. Students learn which muscles in the body consciously engage in order to connect breath with voice.

This class primarily explores the writing process and how to create personal work.

This class calls for collaborative storytelling along with a vivid imagination. Students learn the rules of improv, especially the willingness to say yes to the ideas of others. The students learn to trust their instincts and their scene partner.

Working with their instructor(s), students develop the plot and their characters through a number of creative exercises. The dialogue is created through student improvisations and rehearsals. This class culminates with a production in one of the Institute’s theatres. Students gain the necessary theatre skills of discipline, commitment and cooperation that enable them to deal with director feedback, deadlines, and performances.