Meisner Acting Techniques I (2 week)
Students are guided through a system of exercises developed by Sanford Meisner including: improvisation, repetition, independent activity, and scene work. The work is designed to develop the actor’s concentration and strengthen the actor’s instrument to be both responsive and expressive within the imaginary circumstances. The technique creates a more specific, skilled, and authentic actor with an organic, spontaneous, and disciplined instrument.
Acting for Film & Television (2 week)
Prepares students to translate their acting through the lens of the camera and meet the professional demands of the industry. Students will work on monologues, scenes, and audition materials. The work will be filmed, reviewed and critiqued so that students learn to spontaneously internalize direction. Topics covered include voiceovers, auditioning, technical vocabulary, and performance techniques.
Voice and Speech I (1 week)
This class focuses on developing an expressive, flexible, and resonant voice with stamina and range. Students are instructed in the phonetic alphabet and diction with the goal of mastering Standard Hindi Speech. The goal is for each student to develop a neutral, organic voice for theatre, film, and television.
Physical Theatre (1 week)
This course uses improvisation to access movement as character. The goal is to understand the underlying relationships of carriage, gesture and space, developing strength, endurance, limberness and articulation of the spine.