The Actors’ Boot Camp: Daily Classes, No Excuses

Twice a week

Our courses utilize only the useful components of the Meisner Technique and Michael Chekhov acting techniques. You will learn to live truthfully in the moment and bring authenticity to your work. You will find intimacy and immeasurable joy when you learn how to be actually present to your acting partner. You will find the courage to let go and play. Listening and reacting truthfully to another actor from moment to uninterrupted moment is the basic foundation of all acting. The “repetition” exercise is the only approach that actually teaches this foundation. What Sanford Meisner and what every Meisner Technique Program teaches in three to six months, we will accelerate and drill over the four weeks of our acting boot camp. In this condensed amount of time, you will either walk through what may be your deepest fears or you will run away. Some Meisner Technique practitioners who are no strangers to film acting include Robert Duvall, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, John Malkovich, and Kathy Bates.

Twice a week

Beginning to work with text, slowly bringing in the deep connection to your partner acquired in the Acting Corps Meisner Technique class, and gaining an understanding of the basic mechanics of playing a scene truthfully and freely. 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. Like no other school offering scene study in Los Angeles, The Actors’ Boot Camp actually applies our own proven acting techniques to Cold Reading and Scene Study from the very start. Here you don’t just learn the rudiments of reading a script cold, rehearsing, and getting off book. You learn how to actually apply listening and answering in the moment right away. Actors who want to build technique and have it at their fingertips in auditions and performances are always shocked by the efficiency and success of our original acting boot camp.

Once a week

In this portion of our boot camp, we open up your physical instrument through voice and movement work, so you can fully live in your body, experience the moment, and embrace your right to create.
Augusto Boal, actor, writer, director, and acting coach, said : “…how can expression freely manifest itself throughout an actor’s body, if that very instrument (the body and mind) is mechanized, automated in its muscle structures and insensible to 90% of its possibilities?” The Actor’s Instrument class will help you develop heightened physical and vocal awareness by exploring the connection between body, breath, thought and impulse, and their relationship to your pure, unfettered expression. Through exercises and actual acting techniques in movement, voice and speech, observation, imagination, relaxation, and spontaneity, you will examine and free your instrument, both internally and externally.

Daily

And…included in our original acting boot camp, strongly suggested, but not mandatory: The Daily Acting Workout – One hour a day, every day, on your feet, utilizing all the skills you learn in your acting technique classes.