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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

Level 1 - Intensive
In five weeks you will learn ALL of Sandy's "foundational" exercises. Beginning with the "Repetition Exercise" going step-by-step, brick-by-brick in building a strong foundation for YOUR career.

You will be blown away by how much you have grown as an actor AND have a foundation to apply to all your future auditions, callbacks, and jobs. This class covers the first three months of the Meisner Technique's first year in only six weeks.

This class meets daily: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday for 6weeks. |

Level 2 - Intensive
You will continue with behavioral improvisations learned in Level 1. You will add more bricks to your foundation making it stronger and more solid as you continue to blossom and grow. The "Emotional Preparation" exercise will teach you to enter a scene emotionally full and then you'll apply all this to a final scene.

This class meets daily: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday for 6 weeks. |

Level 3 - Intensive
Using what you've already learned you will be working on an elite level by being an honest, truthful, simple, actor realizing that "You are enough." Continuing with more advanced behavioral improvisations and adding more bricks of this step-by-step system your work will skyrocket with learning "The Relationship Exercise" and applying everything to a final scene.

This class meets daily: Monday, Tuesday, Thurday and Friday for 6 weeks. |