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Learn the essential acting techniques and improve your performance skills in NYC with classes that cover character development, scene study, and improvisation.

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Acting Basics

The Writers and Actors Group @ 131 West 72nd Street

Utilizing classic acting techniques, improvisation, scene study, and character work, we'll explore the depth of characters, being in the moment on stage, and how to live truthfully under the given circumstances of a scene.  We'll also have mock auditions to practice, learn how to prepare, experience engaging with people in the room, and gain more confidence. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px...

(24) Beginner 16 and older
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Clowning with Chris Bayes

Primary Stages ESPA

Get ready to rediscover your playful spirit and the simple pleasure and ferocious generosity of performance. In this workshop, you’ll pursue the clown in all of its messy and hilarious beauty. Way beyond “being funny,” clowning is a way to check your inhibitions at the door, banish dread of failure, and open yourself up to the potential of delight. According to Chris (who contributed the movement to The 39 Steps on Broadway), “Clown is a...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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Meisner (Ages 10-15)

The Creative House

Sanford Meisner’s impact on the craft of acting has been, and continues to be immense. His altogether unique approach to the craft has impacted generations of actors. “The seed of acting,” said Meisner, “is rooted in the “reality of doing”. Rather than focus on emotion, Meisner focused on behavior. To accomplish his goal of removing the thought process from the actor’s work he invented the “repetition” exercises. In doing so he...

All levels 10 - 15 years old
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Adults Meisner Technique

The Creative House

Sanford Meisner’s impact on the craft of acting has been, and continues to be immense. His altogether unique approach to the craft has impacted generations of actors. “The seed of acting,” said Meisner, “is rooted in the “reality of doing”. Rather than focus on emotion, Meisner focused on behavior. To accomplish his goal of removing the thought process from the actor’s work he invented the “repetition” exercises. In doing so he...

All levels 18 and older
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Adult "Scene On Set"

The Creative House

You got the job! Now what? Most film and television classes focus on auditioning so you can get the job, but what happens when you do book it and you show up on set? How do you need to be prepared? What’s first team blocking and how do you work with a director? Director Richard LeMay will take you through the ins and outs of on set scene work. Students will learn multiple scenes and then perform them in on set situations from learning how to...

All levels 18 and older
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Acting Technique

Bob McAndrew Acting Studio @ 358 W 44th St, New York, NY

As an actor, technique is your calling card. Technique is the cornerstone of all great work. This class consists of transformational exercises that will accelerate your growth exponentially, helping you to reach your full potential as an artist and human being.  The roots of creativity are explored. We go to the source, the wellspring where it all happens, utilizing the techniques of Stanislavski, Meisner, Strasberg and Chekhov.  If you...

(2) All levels 18 and older
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$309

4 sessions

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Physical Presence – Release, Energize, Perform

Linklater Center

Too often as performer, our habitual body tensions deprive us of an ability to be sensitive and responsive to impulses. Using principles derived from The Alexander Technique and Kinetic Awareness, this class is designed to help actors to identify held tension, and develop a method to free themselves from old patterns. You will learn about your anatomy, how to use Alexander Direction, and how let go of restrictive posture patterns, to form a freer...

(31) All levels 18 and older
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Intimacy Notation for Stage Managers

Q.E.D.

This class is perfect for Stage Managers and Directors who desire to learn a short hand for notating intimacy choreography.  Participants can expect to leave the class with a vocabulary for notation, as well as practice notating.

(252) All levels 18 and older
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Acting & Directing Technique & Scene Study

Grace Kiley ACTING

Actors and directors create and activate dramatic scenes through in-depth character development. Guidelines for rehearsal and performance provide a framework for actors and directors to expand and deepen creatively.Through film and theater scripts, scene work is supported by technique invoking a fully realized interpretation and...

All levels 18 and older
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Top TV & Film Agent Online Masterclass

Acting & Voice Studios

Full Course Name: Top TV & Film Agent Online Masterclass with House of Representatives Don't miss this Online TV & Film Agent Masterclass with one of the leading TV/Film agents in LA, Denny Sevier of House of Representatives! This class is for actors 16 years old and up and you will be working on scene study, cold-reading and audition techniques. This will be a live, interactive class where you will have a Q&A and then be able...

(24) All levels 16 and older
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Acting For Stage & Screen

Grace Kiley ACTING @ 314 W 54th St, New York, NY

Integrating methodologies from her own training as an actor and her experience as a teacher at prestigious institutions, Grace has developed her own approach to the work that encompasses technique, scene study, on-camera experience, and the underlying principles that allow an actor to explore and expand in all of these areas. Grace demonstrates again and again that when the student brings...

All levels 18 and older
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$324

8 sessions

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Introduction to Playback Theatre

NY Creative Arts Therapists

Playback theatre is an original form of improvisational theatre in which audience or group members tell stories from their lives and have them enacted on the spot (from playback.org). Playback uses improvisation, storytelling, and music in a unique form that brings people together, blending artistic and theatrical form with social connection and action. Experience what it’s like as playback performer to bring someone’s story to life and see...

(3) Intermediate 18 and older
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TV Commercials Class Top Casting Director

Actors Technique NY Kids & Teens @ 500 8th Ave, New York, NY

You'll be sent out on more commercials than anything else. It may not be rocket science, but there is a technique to learning how to analyze copy quickly, what to memorize, and how to make your auditions memorable and unique. You gotta separate yourself from other auditioners. How best to do that? You'll get both single and partnered copy, from food groups to place to favorite items. Become memorable, don't just throw personality blindly to auditions....

(7) All levels 7 - 17 years old
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$75

9 sessions

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Text Analysis with Cusi Cram

Primary Stages ESPA

Being able to break down a text is the key to unlocking the secrets of your character, allowing you to make the most substantial choices and ask the most effective questions. Cusi Cram (playwright, actor, and stage and film director) will offer practical advice on how to build a character with what’s been given, how best to use rehearsal time, and what to do when nothing is working. Prior to the workshop, you’ll be expected to read a script,...

(11) All levels 18 and older
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Writers Workshop Weekends – Nov 2014-May 2015

Three Act Theatre Company

Writers’ Workshop Weekends are designed with the playwright in mind, bringing professional adult actors into the rehearsal room with writer to workshop & publicly read new material.   Sessions will be held on Sundays 1:00-4:00pm, once per month thru May 2015.   Time will be allotted each week to work with adult actors before a group presentation & feedback session where each writer will receive structure feedback from collaborating...

All levels 13 and older
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$350

23 sessions

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Acting Master Class

Broadway Workshop

This class was designed to help students ages 12-18 who are auditioning for College Programs or Performing Arts High Schools. A school guest teacher will work with students on how to select the right monologue and how to bring it to life. Each student will work in a small group setting and have the opportunity each week to build a strong monologue audition. Students will share in the process of self-discovery and personal growth as they bring...

All levels 12 - 18 years old
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Acting Technique

Grace Kiley ACTING

Create dramatic structure and expand your range. Actors of all levels work individually and collectively to develop, personalize and solidify their technique. Each actor presents rehearsed solo exercises with an assigned character from a script or screen play to address particular aspects of acting on stage or on camera. Solo work is balanced by scene work and group impovisations that encourage specificity, flexibility and openness. Learn the tools...

All levels 18 and older
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Perfect Monologue Class on Zoom

Acting School for Film and Television

Create a perfect monologue that you can be proud of for auditions, your acting reel, for social media, or to show agents, managers, and casting directors.  You can use a monologue you have or the instructor will provide one. You may keep a recorded copy of your work. The class will direct you and help you with rhythm, believability, vulnerability, ON CAMERA PRESENCE, dramatic impact and more.  You will have a monologue with movie...

(62) All levels 12 and older
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Sunday Seminar Series: Unarmed for Stage & Screen

NYC Stage & Screen Combat

Sunday Seminar Series: Unarmed for Stage & Screen: Basic and Advanced This seminar will be the perfect introduction for Fighting for Film or Stage as well as an opportunity for past students to work on Advanced Choreography for a live performance and for film. Basic: This introduction will cover the fundamental unarmed techniques you will most commonly be called on to perform including punches, slaps, hair pulls, chokes, falls and kicks. Advanced:...

(6) Beginner 18 and older
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Sunday Seminar Series: Saber For Screen & Stage

NYC Stage & Screen Combat

This seminar will focus on the fundamental use of the saber with an emphasis on learning performance and safety techniques as well as staging concerns for varying audience configurations and camera angles. Later in the seminar, we will work on putting these fundamentals into fight choreography. Note: To participate in the class you need comfortable clothes to work in and should have closed toe shoes that haven't been worn outside (or cleaned well...

(6) All levels 18 and older
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