Training

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Professional Acting certificate program
First Year: (9 months) The training begins with a three-month period of intensive improvisational work, including the"Repetition Exercise" in which actors learn to take the attention off themselves and put it on their partners' real behavior, allowing it to affect them and cause a truthful reaction. Students then apply this strong beginning in their ability to "live truthfully" to modern scene work. The rest of the year is devoted to a heightening of this sense of truth and the actors' emotional depth through more improvisational work and scenes. There is no character work in the first year. After nine months, the actors emerge more honest human beings with instruments ready to act truthfully in film, television, and the stage.

Classes meet twice a week for 3 hours a class |

Professional Acting certificate program
Second Year: (9 months) The second year is by invitation only; students will be asked back, based on the quality of their work in the first year. The work moves into advanced and highly emotional improvisational work, script analysis and interpretation, character work and advanced scene study. The second year culminates in a graduation demonstration presented to the public.

Classes meet twice a week for 3 hours a class