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The Actor's Gym

This class is an exploratory experience for anyone looking to free up their spirit and get their creative juices flowing. It's a three-part workout for your entire instrument. Part 1 starts with an exploration of your body using music, followed by an exercise in awareness. In Part 2 is a combination of sense memory work  and imagination to fine tune our emotional sense abilities. In Part 3  we'll channel this dynamic preparation into a an audition scene. The Actor’s Workout is a great way to get your feet wet and fully submerge into the acting process.

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Character, Choice and Transformation

The Character Development class explores the process of synthesizing our own body, inner life, and lived experience with the scripted character in order to create a unique, complex, three-dimensional human being. This process is what makes acting such a deeply meaningful and spiritually edifying craft. The class can be used to prepare for a significant role, develop a personal project, or apply these tools toward deeper self-understanding and personal growth.

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Beyond the Pose

Some people assume modeling is simply about posing or having a photogenic smile, but there is far more depth to creating compelling, provocative imagery. A strong model is fully comfortable in their own skin and able to access a sense of spontaneity and freedom, while still maintaining an awareness of how angles, movement, and posture translate through the camera.

In this class, we focus on creating a natural flow of moments — a balance of movement and genuine emotion — while developing an understanding of the technical elements of photography, including camera awareness, lighting, and composition. The goal is to cultivate presence, confidence, and authenticity in front of the lens, resulting in images that feel alive rather than posed.

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Art of Auditioning 

This On-Camera Audition Class addresses the technical aspects of auditioning, while still nurturing the artistic process. We work to take back our power during the audition, making bold, authentic choices that make it a fulfilling creative experience. Actors can bring in their own audition material (up to 3 pages in length) or work on the sides provided. The class is run like a real-world audition with actors signing in, waiting outside the audition room for their turn. The auditioned will be given 2-3 takes, with notes and adjustments given in between. Sides for all classes will be provided and available the day before.

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Scene Study:
Technique & Truth

As actors, our work is to lend our full physical and inner faculties to bring color, depth, and life to the black-and-white words on the page. A script offers an outline — a map of a particular story — but each performance is shaped by how an actor interprets that map and chooses their path into the life of the character. This class is a collaborative exploration, with two actors working together to step into a given circumstance — otherwise known as a scene — discovering truth, relationship, and meaning through shared experience.

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The Joy of  Commercial Acting

The key to booking commercials is learning how to be completely natural while staying flexible enough to scale a performance up or down based on direction — without losing authenticity. Commercial auditioning requires a willingness to improvise, but most importantly, the ability to simply be yourself.

This class focuses heavily on the audition process, helping actors keep their work playful, light, and spontaneous while developing the skills needed to deliver honest, bookable performances.

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