Your Teacher
The Work
You will work off and on camera on material from plays, film and television scripts, as well as original material.
Often you will work collectively from common source material, either by genre or author- from plays, films, and series. Sometimes you’ll work on original material, and each month you’ll take the work on camera- after exploring a genre, playwright, screenwriter, or your own work- to see how it shifts and evolves. There will be individual assignments outside of class time for scene preparation, and learning new, deeper, enjoyable ways to prepare character and material. And then bring that to the studio space to find the depth and heights of the story together.
From Shane:
There is no scene, there is simply an opening moment. Build the right history, ask the right questions, forget about the answers, they’ll take care of themselves, live with the question… let go and commit to the opening moment, fully, wholly, truly and simply- and then- anything can happen. The simplest and hardest necessity of any art form, is to let go.
Commit to life, everyday life, in the same way, and therein lies your practice, your art.
This class is for actors looking for an in-depth weekly exploration of how to make any material truly active and fully embodied.
This class is not an audition or employment opportunity and there is no suggestion or guarantee of an audition or employment as a result of taking this class.