2. Scene Study & Workshops

  3. The Text and Scene Study Classes offer students a chance to learn, develop, and perfect their craft under the focused guidance of an instructor and in the presence of their peers.  Each of our teachers brings years of professional experience and study to these ongoing classes, which are enrolled on a month-to-month basis to conform to the busy life of the professional actor.  Admission to these classes is highly selective, and and interview with each prospective student is required before enrollment.  In some cases, an audition may be required as well.


  5. Surrounding our core teacher-mentors are brilliant specialists.  Three or four times a year, these immensely gifted and experienced trainers conduct workshops that concentrate on particular aspects of the actor's craft: voice, body, language, style, comedy, the classics - including Shakespeare, song, on-camera, and audition.  Together with the core text & scene study, the specialist workshops help our actors devise their own training program.  I invite you to join us.  Take the classes you need, can afford, and that fit your schedule.


 
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Scene Study

MICHAEL HOWARD


Michael Howard’s Master Class in Text and Scene Study is for the accomplished, professional actor who seeks the challenge of working with an experienced group of peers and one of the country’s most renowned acting coaches.  Michael teaches two sections of 25-30 students, each meeting once a week.  Michael is always eager to meet new students who are ready to take their work to the highest level of training. 


AUDITION/INTERVIEW required.


Please email us to submit a headshot/resume to be considered for Fall 2010.


Tuesdays or Thursdays

1PM - 5PM

$315.00 per month

 
ALEXANDRA NEIL


Alex Neil (Broadway’s Match and Rock & Roll) is a New York City based actor who works regularly in Theater (Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Regional), Film, and Television.  Her class focuses on techniques for the working actor.      Through a combination of exercise and scene work, actors will develop their own technique for approaching the work, increase their text analysis skills, find freedom, power, and their authentic selves in the work.




Wednesdays

  7:00 – 10:00PM

$265 per month

 

POLINA KLIMOVITSKAYA


Polina Klimovitskaya’s work focuses on the powerful traditions of the Russian theatre while embracing newer theories of performance from Europe.  With students from all over the world, her class provides a creative space for actors to grow and develop among a group of dedicated artists who each bring unique histories and skill sets to their work.


Fridays

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

$265 per month

 

NAOMI THORNTON


Naomi Thornton is on the faculty at Bard College and has years of experience as a performer, director and producer; she’s also a veteran of the Michael Howard Studios, having held classes here longer than anyone except Michael himself.  Her tightly knit group of students examine various approaches to performance led by Naomi’s dynamic rigor and focus. 


Tuesdays

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

$265 per month

 

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All payments are due in full before the first class of the month.  No prorating.

GABRIELLE BERBERICH


Berberich is a casting director, writer, and producer for film and television, as well as the owner of Michael Howard Studios.  She follows up her immensely popular Acting for Film & Television Workshop with this on-going Scene Study class.  Through scene work and text analysis, this class will focus on the passionate pursuit of artistic growth and evolution of today's actor in the American Theatre including stage, film and television. In addition, it will serve to assist actors in the craft of acting as a business.  Within our work together, this class will have the occasion to draw from the insight and experience of industry guests, including working actors, directors, producers, agents and managers.  




Wednesdays

3:00PM - 6:30PM

$290.00 per month

 

ANGELA PIETROPINTO


Angela Pietropinto (Welcome To The Dollhouse) is a working actor in all realms of the industry.  Her scene study class
is geared to give its participants a process that they can rely upon; a process rooted in astute text analysis and the ability to make bold choices - the selection of strong objectives, formidable obstacle, meaningful pre-lives, personalization, and varied actions.  Angela is renowned for her hands on teaching style and is recommended by some of the top agencies and casting directors for her transformational work with the actor.

Angela Pietropinto has performed both on and off Broadway and in Film and Television. Welcome To The Dollhouse in which she portrayed Marj Weiner, the mother from hell, won the 1995 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. She has been teaching acting for over 20 years and is presently the Director of The Open Arts Studio at NYU Tisch Special Programs.



Mondays

7:00pm - 10:00pm

$265 per month