Training: Course of Study

First Year: Foundations

Acting: Action and objective, personalization and creative use of self, affective memory, moment-to-moment awareness, given circumstances. Acting for the camera.  Project-based performance work; appropriate roles at PlayMakers Repertory Company.

Movement: Balance, physical/psychological extension, flexibility, stress/adaptive strategies, sensory acuity.  Empty handed combat; circus skills.

Voice/Speech: Breathing, alignment, warm-up, extension of range, resonation, stamina, connecting text to emotion, improving clarity, pronunciation, text analysis.

Second Year: Variations

Acting: Application of acting process to a variety of classical and formal texts including Shakespeare and the Restoration. Continuing use of camera.  Appropriate roles with PlayMakers Repertory Company and PATP productions.

Movement: Transforming and masking, increasing physical and imaginative range, understanding how movement creates meaning.

Voice/Speech: Application of vocal technique to varying acting styles, challenging spaces, and increasingly demanding performance situations; stage dialects.

Third Year: Synthesis

Acting: Advanced process work, integration of skills into performance, showcase preparation and presentation in New York City. Continuing use of camera.  Substantial responsibility at PlayMakers Repertory Company and PATP productions.

Movement: Aikido and T'ai Chi Ch'uan for the actor

Voice/Speech: Refining and integrating performance skills, cold readings and auditions, basic microphone and voiceover technique.

Guest Workshops

Course of Study is supplemented by workshops and special classes taught by distinguished guests. Upcoming: Mary Harden (Harden/Curtis Associates), Pat McCorkle (McCorkle Casting), Lewis Black.  Past workshops have been led leading figures in the field, including Cicely Berry, Trezana Beverly, Jay Binder (Binder Casting), Anne Bogart, Hume Cronyn, Nancy Curtis (Harden/Curtis), Janet Foster (Janet Foster Casting), Heidi Griffiths (NY Public Theater),George Grizzard, Rosemary Harris, Jeffrey Hayden, Delbert Mann, P.J. Paparelli, Mark Rydell, Mark Schlegel (Cornerstone Agency), Daniel Swee (Lincoln Center Theatre), Julie Tucker (Law and Order SVU), Liz Woodman (Liz Woodman Casting) and Scott Zigler (American Repertory Theatre).