Summer ‘25 In-Person Workshops
NEW YORK CITY
Essentials Workshop:
June 6, 7, 8 | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Immersion into Shooting*:
June 10, 11, 12, 13 | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Essentials Workshop
$540
Immersion into Shooting*
$720
Bundle Both Sections*:
$1,260
Observer Spots, Open to All (Great for teachers, filmmakers, etc):
$100/Day
Workshop Descriptions
4 DAY
IMMERSION INTO SHOOTING
Designed to build upon core principles introduced in ESSENTIALS, participants are offered an opportunity to implement those principles in an approximation of the shooting environment.
We’ll investigate how visual stories are constructed (on the page as well as in shooting) and how this framework can liberate rather than constrain the actor’s expression. Understanding the screenplay as a blueprint for shooting, we offer tools to locate the movement of any scene.
We reframe the actor’s relationship to the working environment: how to better prepare for shooting, how to bring useful and playable storytelling choices into rehearsal, and how to bring your full self to the work as you move through each new take.
Actors will work in paired scenes (drawn from films pulled especially for our participants). Through a range of set-ups attention is placed on enabling the actor to identify the needs of the shot/scene, while also remaining open to present-moment stimuli.
Actors come away with a new sense of artistic agency over their own work, and with a foundation from which to become full collaborators in the process.
All takes from filmed scene work is sent to actors at end of intensive. (Work is left unedited.)
3 DAY ESSENTIALS WORKSHOP
The intensive aims to provide actors with a supportive and rich environment to explore key principles in cinematic storytelling, in order to bring more present-moment veracity to their work onscreen and demystify the language of the medium.
The workshop begins with an exploration of original, filmed, ‘short-form’ exercises devised to strengthen moment-to-moment work and truthful behavioral language that reads onscreen, while also laying in core principles.
Participants are be offered a range of tools to open up their work, including moving outside of the physical confines of the studio space, when possible. Actors work both in front of as well as behind the camera initially, in an effort to expand their visual imaginations.
We’ll investigate how visual stories are constructed (on the page as well as in shooting), and how this framework can liberate rather than constrain the actor’s expression.
Actors will come away with tangible tools that enable them to bring themselves more deeply into the work.
