The Professional Program courses

These are the classes you will take on a daily basis for the four weeks, five days a week:

Acting Corps Technique

Utilizing only the USEFUL components of the Meisner and Michael Chekhov technique, learning to live truthfully in the moment, bringing authenticity to your work as you explore the frightening intimacy and immeasurable joy of actually being present  to your acting partner and finding the courage to let go and PLAY.

Scene Study

Beginning to work with text, slowly bringing in the deep connection to your partner found in The Acting Corps Technique class, and gaining an understanding of the basic mechanics of playing a scene truthfully and freely.

Cold Reading

Getting a scene "cold,” making powerful acting choices, listening and answering in the moment as you fully commit to your acting partner and your objective in the scene.

The Actors’ Instrument

Opening up your physical instrument through voice and movement work so that you can fully live in your body, experience the moment, and fully embrace your right to create.

INCLUDED:

The Daily Acting Workout

One HOUR a day, EVERY DAY, on your feet, utilizing all the skills you learn in your acting technique classes. (At least two Daily Acting Workout sessions are mandatory every week)

Actors’ Boot Camp schedule is Monday to Friday, 10:30am - 2:30pm.
Daily Acting Workout schedule is Monday to Friday, 9:00 am-10:00 am and Sunday to Thursday, 6:00pm-7:00pm.

Here you will continue to learn and APPLY only the relevant aspects of the Meisner Technique and the Michael Chekhov Technique, you will learn TRUE on-camera skills so that you can work on ANY type of shoot, and you will learn and APPLY business tools that will get you going in your career. As a matter of fact, we INSIST not only that you have an appropriate and effective picture and resume by the end of Boot Camp II, but that you also start AUDITIONING.

Here’s how it happens 5 days a week, 4 hours a day:

Cold Reading/Scene Study

Going deep in your scene work, truly playing actions, staying in the moment the whole time, taking chances, and making bold choices. Creating character, finding a character’s arc, audition technique, mock auditions, breaking down a script into beats, and taking adjustments as you work with scenes appropriate to your type.

Acting Corps Technique

Transitioning from the useful elements of The Meisner Technique into text, working from a point of view, and independent activities. But more often it is about getting in your body, using your imagination, attacking the Michael Chekhov Technique and psychological gestures and atmosphere as you stay in the moment.

On Camera Technique

Difference between frame sizes, matching action, keeping it alive the whole time, learning to hit marks, blocking, coverage, and shooting and playing back scenes. All scenes will be shot digitally, you will get your own individual take, and you will get individual critique during playback.

Business of Show Business

Determining your type, learning how the business really works, creating the best possible resume, finding a photographer, SCHEDULING a SHOOT DATE, then bringing back your pictures, choosing the right one given your type, finalizing your resume, absorbing info on agents, submissions, and auditioning. By the end of this class you will have your entire business package ready and you will go on at least ONE AUDITION. No excuses here - are you in or are you just going to sit in a class somewhere and talk about this acting thing?

INCLUDED:

16 SESSIONS of The Daily Acting Workout

One HOUR a day, EVERY DAY, on your feet, utilizing all the skills you learn in your acting technique classes. (At least two Daily Acting Workout sessions are mandatory every week)

Morning Boot Camp II schedule is Monday to Friday, 10:30am - 2:30pm.

During this 26 week course you will gain a deep understanding of character and script analysis, as well as invaluable experience playing many different kinds of parts, in all of the genres you might audition for in TODAY’s industry.

Here you will also discover an acting technique which you will make your own because you will apply it not only to scenes and cold readings, but also to mock-auditions. You will also have the opportunity to audition for the INDUSTRY SHOWCASE, where friends, family, agents, and casting directors will come to see those who are cast in a professionally directed and staged play, you will be out of excuses for not becoming a working actor. 

Advanced Scene Study/Cold Reading (required)

Evenings: Monday 7:00PM -11:00 PM, Thursday 6-10:30PM

Work in all the styles you might audition for, switching gears constantly as you jump from style to style. Read material appropriate to each genre and get practical training so that you are comfortable with everything from episodic TV, to film, to sitcoms.

Advanced Acting Corps Technique (required)

Evenings: Tuesday 6:00PM – 10:30 PM AND Wednesday 7.00PM -11.00 PM

The Acting Corps Technique – keeping your work moment to moment, but exploring ground breaking approaches to finding character through the imagination, learning to work in such a way that your imagination always feeds you, allowing you to create unforgettable performances that are also repeatable in a professional setting, ( i.e., you will be able to do what you do more than once, you will be able to do it on take fourteen if necessary.)

The Daily Acting Workout (DAW) (required)

Attend 5 of the DAWs offered morning or evening, you choose.

The Works in Progress Evening (WIP) (included)

In addition to the SHOWCASE, the 4th Friday of the month serves as an opportunity to put up scenes for the entire school, as well as Acting Corps faculty and Artistic Director Eugene Buica.

Requirements:

• Good command of the English Language.
• Must be 18 years of age, or 17 years of age with parental approval.
• Interview and Letter of Recommendation.
• To graduate from the The Professional Program students must receive a grade of PASS for each of the three stage of the program.