Cleveland Schedule

Meisner Technique

Monday @ 5:45 - 8:00pm

Meisner Training is an interdependent series of exercises that build upon one another. The more complex work supports a command of dramatic text. Meisner students work on a series of progressively complex exercises to develop an ability to improvise, to access an emotional life, and finally to bring the spontaneity of improvisation and the richness of personal response to text. The technique develops the behavioral strand of Stanislavski's 'system', via its articulation in an American idiom as Method acting. The technique asserts that by emphasizing "moment-to-moment" spontaneity through communion with other actors, behavior that is truthful under imaginary circumstances may be generated.

Advanced Meisner Technique (Invite Only)

Thursday @ 7:30 - 9:30pm

A more in-depth and critical analysis of the Meisner Technique than what is covered in the original Meisner class. This advanced course offers students opportunity to fine tune their approach in a more demanding setting.

Improv 1

Sunday @ 7 - 9:30pm

Considered by some to be the core of good acting, improv training develops the performers ability to be spontaneous and in the moment. Students will learn the principles of improv such as the platform and "yes, and..." in an interactive group setting through a series of improv exercises and games.

Improv 2

Temporarily cancelled due to Covid-19

Improv For The Actor/Masked Improv

Temporarily cancelled due to cover-19

Using exercises created by Viola Spolin, the Mother of improv, as well as learning techniques of mask improvisational acting, we will hone our ability to harness physical impulses and use the whole body in performance.   This class is intended for actors of all skill and experience levels.

On-Set Script Choices

Monday @ 4- 5:30pm

Consisting of text from movies, plays, and other sources, this class puts students to work polishing and perfecting scenes.

Young Actors

Online only due to Covid-19

Each week our youth actors will work on Improv, script choices, monologues, on-camera techniques, scene study, on-set scenes, mock auditions, and audition techniques.

Dialects*

Temporarily cancelled due to Covid-19