All classes take place in a lovely private studio space at: 12652 Beckett Road, South Surrey (near Crescent Beach)
To all our adult students and parents of young students, we offer our professional experience navigating Vancouver's film/tv industry, and commit to helping you understand how to build or expand a professional career as an actor. Whether it is finding representation, creating fantastic self-tape auditions, or preparing for an on-set role, we are here to help you excel on every level. Our highest priority in each class is to create a safe, judgement-free space, for you (or your young one) to take risks, be seen and heard, and fall in love with the magic of this art form.
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ADULT - All LevelsWEDNESDAYS 6:30PM - 9:30PM // Sept 11 - Oct 16 // 6 weeks // $350+GST
* $25 off student/senior discount Perhaps you're excited to explore a new creative passion? Or you would love a practice that helps build your confidence and freedom of expression? Curious about the possibility of developing a professional career? Whatever your interests, this is the class for you. Tailored to meet individual needs, Robert's class focuses on the fundamentals of acting beneficial for actors at any level. In a safe and playful environment, we will explore the work using the body and voice as an instrument, learn how to interpret the text, build engaging characters and bring the work to life!
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Every 6-week module involves the basics of acting, improv, and scene study. Recordings of your work will be made available for you to study and share.
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ADULT - Intermediate/AdvancedTUESDAYS 6:30PM - 9:30PM // Sept 10 - Oct 15 // 6 weeks // $350+GST
* $25 off student/senior discount In this class, experienced actors have the chance to go deeper. Utilizing the works of great acting teachers such as Constantine Stanislavsky, Uta Hagen and Larry Moss along with Robert's compassion, intuition, experience and curiosity, students will find their own individual path that helps them blossom. If you wish to work on your comedy chops - great! Wanna challenge yourself with Shakespeare - go for it! We will be working with great scripted material that stretches our comfort zones and ignites passion so we can achieve our best work and shed a little light on what it is to be fully human.
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Every 6-week module involves the in-depth acting study, improv, scene study and audition technique. Recordings of your work will be made available for you to study and share.
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KIDS (ages 6-9)SATURDAYS 10-11:15 AM // Sept 14 - Oct 19 // 6 weeks // $150+GST
* sliding scale spots available Whether you have a natural performer on your hands and you want to expand their skill and experience, or a more reserved child who could benefit from the self-expression acting inspires, this class is for you. Fun, imaginative games will build their skills as performers. Great age-appropriate scenes will guide them to build characters, learn lines and develop their body and voice as their instrument. Showcases will support their confidence and resilience to take risks, have fun, and share themselves with the world. In class we learn to be ourselves, understand others, and work together to bring a story to life with our bodies, voices and imagination.
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Every 6-week module involves in-depth acting exercises, an age-appropriate scene and a round of fun mock auditions. Recordings of your work will be made available for you to study and share with family, friends, agents and casting.
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Pre-TEENS (ages 10-12)SATURDAYS 11:30AM-1:30PM // Sept 14 - Oct 19 // 6 weeks // $225+GST
* sliding scale spots available There may be nothing more empowering for a pre-teen than an acting class. Acting is not about pretending to be someone else, it's about being authentic in given circumstances - the work challenges you to access and express your deepest truth, cultivate immense empathy, and liberate imagination. In class we develop confidence, presence, and comfort with our bodies and voices. Whether or not you are cultivating a professional life as an actor, these classes will enrich every part of you and your future pursuits. Classes will help your child develop the inner resilience to be authentically seen and heard, on stage, on camera, in auditions and in life.
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Every 6-week module involves in-depth acting exercises, the learning of one incredible scene from a tv show or movie, and a round of mock auditions. Recordings of your work will be made available for you to study and share with family, friends, agents and casting.
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TEENS (ages 13-17)THURSDAYS 6:30-8:30PM // Sept 12 - Oct 17 // 6 weeks // $225+GST
* sliding scale spots available A class for older teens who love to act. With a more serious focus on the art of acting, and the professional pursuit of theatre and film, this class will support young actors to realize their creative goals. Focusing on physicality, vocal range, emotional access and improv skills, Julie will give teen actors a solid foundation of tools to become any character and tell any story, on stage or in front of the camera. Also unspeakably beneficial to overall confidence building, comfort with public speaking, and skillful interviewing which are so relevant to this stage of life.
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Every 6-week module involves in-depth acting exercises, the learning of one incredible scene from a tv show or movie, and a round of mock auditions. Recordings of your work will be made available for you to study and share with family, friends, agents and casting.
“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.” |
