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Acting Techniques: Meisner 1

Develop a disciplined and dynamic acting practice. Through a progressive series of partner exercises, you will refine your active listening skills, heighten your attention, and generate reflexive and truthful responses – the key to authentic acting.

Into the Industry

Develop the professional collateral needed to enter the entertainment industry. Create a professional website, resume, demo reel, and a personal pitch. Create and package a project to market to the industry upon graduation. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 495 and MPT 810.)

Respect for Acting

Jump into the world of objective-based acting! Through scene study, you will learn the basics of professional acting technique, focusing on making compelling acting choices and improving your performances based on adjustments. (This course is cross-listed with LA 104.)

Audition Process: From Cold Readings to Callbacks

Increase your odds of booking a job! Learn and apply advanced techniques for auditioning successfully in film, television, theater, industrials, and web dramas.

Script Analysis

Actors, directors, and writers will work together to analyze screenplays collaboratively in a professional context. Focus is on developing a more sophisticated approach to story and subtext. Creatively, students will work together to identify and deliver a range of performance options. (This course is cross-listed with ACT 469 and LA… Read More

Acting Experience

Join us for a blast of improv, vocal warm-ups, and acting exercises! Boost your confidence for auditions, interviews, and beyond. You’ll learn memorization techniques, craft a monologue, and show it off in our final class. Bring your friends and family to watch your performance, which is followed by a Q&A… Read More

Creating Physical Characters

Build characters from the outside in. You’ll explore how physical behaviors can be used to create characters and focus on rhythm, appetite, status, psychological gesture, and object manipulation. Work with masks, mime, neutral mask, clown, commedia dell’arte, and contemporary archetypes to enhance your work. (This course is cross-listed with ACT… Read More