The following is a listing of New York area stage and film acting schools, teachers, and coaches organized in alphabetical order. Also included are a few British listings. See the quick reference chart at the end of this list. We've tried to include as many as possible. The entries are divided into six categories: Acting Technique, Children/Teens, Comedy/Improv, Monologue/Audition/Coaching, Multipurpose, and On-Camera (Film/TV/Commerical). Each entry contains the following information, if applicable: name of school, address, phone number, number of years experience or in operation, average number of students in the class, whether beginners, intermediate, or advanced students are taught, if auditing is permitted, whether classes are ongoing or by sessions, and any special emphasis used in classes or coaching. Editing of listings are at the discretion of Back Stage. If any schools or names have been omitted, contact B.L. Rice in writing c/o Back Stage, 770 Broadway, 6th floor, New York, NY 10003, so that we may include you in our next listing.
ACTeen
c/o Rita Litton, dir.
at Weist-Barron Studios
35 W. 45 St.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 391-5915
Website: www.acteen.com
20 years in operation.
6-10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions; year-round and summer academy.
Film (including film directing), television, commercials, improvisation, auditioning, musical theatre, movement, Shakespeare, speech, voice, stage combat, script writing, monologues, agent & casting director showcases, private coaching, specialized for ages 13-20.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial); Acting Technique; Monologue/ Audition/ Coaching; Children/Teens; Multi-purpose
ACTING CREATIVELY WITH KERRY LEA
128 St. Marks Pl., Ste. A
New York, NY 10009
(212) 228-8217
Email: ActingCreatively@yahoo.com
Website: www.ActingCreatively.com
6 years of teaching experience (Kerry Lea).
One year in operation (Acting Creatively).
12 students average per class.
All levels.
No auditing permitted.
Classes by sessions.
Fun, creative acting classes for kids & teens based on improvisation, second character development with focuses on everything from theatre to commercials. Agent showcases included.
Acting School Category: Children/Teens
ACTING FOR CAMERA
Maria Greco, Tony Greco
The Film Center Building
630 9th Ave., Suite 702
New York, NY 10036
(212) 247-2011
28 years in operation.
10 students or less per class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is permitted by arrangement.
Ongoing and by sessions.
Special emphasis in classes on cold reading.
Commercials, films, soaps, audition techniques.
Acting School Category: On Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
ACTING MANAGEMENT INC.
140 W. 22 St., 4th floor
New York, NY 10011
(212) 989-8709
10 years in operation.
12 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
On-camera and audition technique for commercial, soaps, film, and theatre.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial); Acting Technique
THE ACTING PLACE
Loukas Skipitaris, dir.
32-15 38 St. (near Kaufman-Astoria Studios)
Astoria, NY 11103
(718) 721-7610
Email: ActStudio@aol.com
22 years in operation.
One-on-one and classes of no more than ten actors.
All levels.
An ongoing acting workshop.
Acceptance and enrollment only after free interview.
"The Core of the Creative Center" approach to acting.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
THE ACTING STUDIO, INC.
29 E. 19 St., 4th floor
New York, NY 10003
(212) 228-2700
James Price, John Grabowski
15 years in operation.
12-16 students average per class.
All levels.
Conditional auditing is permitted.
Both term sessions and on-going.
Creative self-expression following theories and practices of Meisner and Stanislavsky. Classes and workshops in acting, directing, auditioning, voice, movement, Alexander Technique, Shakespeare, and performance experience, in association with Chelsea Repertory Co. and Chelsea Repertory Lab.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
ACTING TRAINING WITH KATHRYN ROSSETTER
325 W. 45 St., # 207
New York, NY 10036
(212) 946-5135/fax (212) 262-6612
Email: NYKass@aol.com
5 years in operation.
10 students per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Private coaching available.
Classes consist of technique and scene study combining Meisner and Strasberg. Students receive intense individual attention preparing them for work in all areas of theatre, film & TV. Also a specialist in teaching stand-up comics to act.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv; Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Multipurpose
ACTION THEATRE
CONSERVATORY
68 Union Ave.
Clifton, NJ 07011
(973) 772-6998
Fax: (973) 772-7684
8 years in operation.
12 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Acting, musical theatre, dance, and improvisation.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
ACTORS ADVENT LTD.
Esther Brandice, dir.
212 W. 29 St.
New York, NY 10001
(212) 627-0854/fax (212) 627-0638
26th year in operation.
10 students maximum per workshop.
All levels—contemporary through classics.
Auditing is permitted-appointment necessary.
Ongoing.
Audition material and stage technique.
On-camera/commercials/soap.
Professional and career guidelines.
Private coaching available.
Free brochure upon request.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ACTORS AND WRITERS LAB
Diane Shalet, dir., published author ("Grief in a Sunny Climate," St. Martin's Press), and teaching associate of the late Robert "Bobby" Lewis (20 yrs.).
(212) 245-8411
Email: shalet@dellnet.com
25 years in operation/experience.
15-20 students average per class.
All levels.
No auditing permitted.
By sessions and ongoing.
Actors Workshop: Technique, scene study; Writers Workshop: Acting technique for novelists, playwrights, and screenwriters. Interactive workshop for actors and writers: Ongoing workshop to create and develop material.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Multipurpose
THE ACTORS CENTER
12 W. 27 St., Suite 1700
New York, NY 10001
(212) 447-6309
4 years in operation.
Classes limited to 12 students per class.
Intermediate and advanced level students.
Auditing is not permitted.
Admission by audition only.
Classes offered by session, with both classical and contemporary emphases.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
ACTORS CONNECTION
Lisa Gold, owner & president
Tony Nation, operations mgr.
630 9th Ave., Suite 1410
New York, NY 10036
(212) 977-6666
Email: info@ActorsConnection.com
Website: www.actorsconnection.com
11 years in operation.
18-22 actors per seminar.
Intermediate and advanced levels for seminars and classes.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing (classes) and by sessions (seminars).
Free consultation.
Trained actors network with casting directors and agents, as well as fellow actors. Monologues, scenes, songs, and/or commercial copy is presented in varied settings; one on one, or groups.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ACTORS CONSERVATORY
Elaine Aiken, Lily Lodge, Dirs.
750 8th Ave., Studio 400-401
New York, NY 10036
(212) 764-0543
Fax: (212) 580-5021
16 years in operation.
8-18 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
Development of the actor with sense memory techniques.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
ACTOR'S CREATIVE
EXPERIENCE, Ltd.
PO Box 834
or 39 Hudson Ave.
Nyack, NY 10960
(914) 348-3915
Fax: (914) 348-3914
8 years in operation (5 in LA and 3 in NY).
12 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions and Ongoing.
Emphasis is on small supportive classes where students work in each class. Top professional faculty from N.Y.C. Classes available for all levels, beginner through advanced, children, teens, and adults. Faculty includes agents and casting directors from N.Y.C. for on-camera dept.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
ACTORS GESTALT WITH RICHARD ZANE ROSS
324 E. 85 St.
New York, NY 10028
(212) 794-8983/fax (212) 517-3654 (call before faxing)
Email: gestaltkid@worldnet.att.net
20 years experience.
8 students average per "Intensives" class
Beginners and advanced.
12 students average per "Audition Cold" class
Ongoing and by sessions (workshops)
"Intensives": Character development through "Pathological Expressive Gesture" and "Experimental Awareness" techniques, to free and heighten creative instinct and authenticity of emotional range, via monologue and scene work. Coaching: As above with additional focus on emotional and physical resistance. Also audition monologues. "Audition Cold": Simplified, but specific "Cold Reading" technique.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition /Coaching.
THE ACTORS INSTITUTE
159 W. 25th St., 9th floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 924-8888
Fax: (212) 627-5045
Email: taires@concentric.net
Over 20 years in operation,
TAI began as a result of its core program, The Mastery.
12 students average per class.
No more than 15 students per group.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted by appointment, free of charge.
By sessions and ongoing.
Strong emphasis on combining physicality with text work and practical application of all facets of the artistic framework from scene study to audition technique. Classical and contemporary work introduced through new approaches. Career coaching and developmental skills stressed.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
ACTORS LOFT SEMINARS
(212) 358-5003
Limited to 10-12 students per class.
All levels.
One-day audition seminars with casting directors and agents for film/TV, commercials, and musical theatre.
Also soap audition class with NY soap agent. How soap auditions differ from film. Take this class and experience the difference while this agent works with you. Runs periodically.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
ACTORS MOVEMENT STUDIO
PO Box 1098
New York, NY 10018
(212) 736-3309/fax (212) 736-2596
Email: actmost@erols.com
20 years in operation
18 students average per class
Beginners and Intermediate
Comprehensive training in he actor's physical process. Advanced projects in Victorian, Restoration, and Elizabethan styles.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique.
ACTORTEC
Ken Schatz, Artistic Dir.
106 Hicks St. #4A
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 625-8372
Email: info@actortec.com
Website: www.actortec.com
2 years in operation.
Class size varies
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Comprehensive personal coaching for professional actors; project coaching and group classes for acting technique, text, scene study, monologue and audition prep, voice, speech, and dialects, movement, mask technique, and physical character work. Call for information and class schedules..
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ACTORS THEATRE WORKSHOP, INC.
Thurman E. Scott, Artistic Director and Founder
145 W. 28 St.
New York, NY 10001
(212) 947-1386
Over 25 years in operation.
All levels.
By sessions.
Professional acting technique with an emphasis on development of the imagination and leading to the creation of original work.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
ACTORS TRAINING INSTITUTE
P.O. Box 2096
91 Monmouth St.
Red Bank, NJ 07701
(732) 219-0055/fax (732) 219-0098
11 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions and ongoing.
Stanislavsky, Meisner, Method, audition, and monologue techniques, radio/TV voice-over techniques, foreign dialects.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
ALISON ADLER
(212) 252-3704
11 years in operation
All levels
By session
My coaching technique is based on the Stella Adler technique (Stanislavsky method).
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
STELLA ADLER CONSERVATORY OF ACTING
419 Lafayette St., 6th floor
New York, NY 10003-7033
(212) 260-0525/ (800) 270-6775
Fax: (212) 260-8944
Website: www.stellaadler.com
Email: sadler@idt.net
49 years in operation.
14 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Focus on acclaimed Stella Adler technique of acting.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
GLENN ALTERMAN'S
CREATING & PERFORMING YOUR
OWN MONOLOGUES
(212) 769-7928
Website: www.glenalterman.com
8 years teaching experience.
One-on-one only.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted. Now also audition/monologue coaching.
Sessions prearranged.
For actors wishing to create and perform their own monologues for auditions, performance art, one-person shows, and classroom work, taught by the author of "Creating Your Own Monologue," Allworth Press, 1999; "Street Talk (Original Character Monologues for Actors)," "Two Minutes and Under," "100 Acting Jobs for Actors," "Promoting Your Acting Career,", and others.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Multipurpose
AMARANTH STUDIO
Pamela Childs, Director
164 Lake St.
Englewood, NJ 07631
(201) 871-7155/fax (201) 871-7154
14 years in operation.
Private coaching and small workshops.
All levels.
Ongoing.
Special Method acting, speech, improv, scene study, monologues, commercials, soaps, videotaping, audition preparation, image consulting.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF
DRAMATIC ARTS
120 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10016
(212) 686-0620/fax (212) 696-1284
Website: www.aada.org
Email: admissions-ny@aada.org
115 years in operation (founded 1884).
Never more than 16 students per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
The Academy offers comprehensive conservatory training for professional careers. In addition to the accredited full-time program, there are part-time Saturday and evening classes and summer school.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
AMERICAN COMEDY
INSTITUTE
1600 Broadway, Room 614
New York, NY 10019
(212) 247-5555/fax (212) 247-5568
Website: www.comedyINSTITUTE.com
12 years in operation.
16 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Both ongoing, by sessions, and a one-year program.
Classes include writing and performing stand-up comedy, improvisation, sitcom writing, sitcom audition technique, sketch comedy writing and performing, commercial audition technique, and acting. Private coaching available with Stephen Rosenfield.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
AMERICAN COMEDY
INSTITUTE ONE-YEAR
PROGRAM
1600 Broadway, Room 614
New York, NY 10019
(212) 247-5555/fax (212) 247-5568
Website: www.comedyINSTITUTE.com
2 years in operation.
16 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
27 instructional weeks, a one-year comprehensive program in comedy.
Comprehensive program in writing and performing stand-up comedy, on-camera acting, sitcom audition class, acting through improv, fundamentals of acting, commercial audition technique, improv, and sketch comedy writing and performing.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
AMERICAN GLOBE THEATRE CONSERVATORY
145 W. 46th St.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 869-9809/fax (212) 869-9807
Website: www.Americanglobe.org
16 years in operation
16 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Classical especially First Folio Technique.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
AMERICAN MIME THEATRE
61 Fourth Ave., 2nd floor
New York, NY 10003
(212) 777-1710
Website: www.americanmime.org.
Email: AmMime@aol.com
Paul J. Curtis, director
C.J. Barbour, asst. dir.
48 years in operation.
15-20 students average per class.
All levels plus a company trainee program.
Auditing: A prerequisite to studying followed by an interview.
Ongoing.
"American Mime" is an art form created by the Director, Paul J. Curtis; it is a blending of acting and moving simultaneously; a silent theatre totally different from the French tradition.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
AMERICAN MUSIC AND
DRAMATIC ACADEMY (AMDA)
2109 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
(212) 787-5300/fax (212) 799-4623
Website: www.amda.edu
35 years in operation
20 students average per class
Intermediate level.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
AMDA offers two programs of study in a conservatory setting. Integrated program offers training in singing, acting, and dance; the sutdio program trains students in acting for stage, film, and TV.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
AMNESIA WARS IMPROVISATION: CLASSES
c/o Rob Reese
454 W. 49 St., 4B
New York, NY 10019
(917) 752-0657
Website: www.amnesiawars.com
Email: classes@amnesiawars.com
Four years in operation in Chicago; two in New York.
12 students average in a class; 16 maximum.
All levels; first two levels prequisite for advanced.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions. Next session begins Feb 1st.
Longform (Chicago style) improvisation, techniques, and styles. Focus on scenework (also good for non-improv actors) and structures (also good for non-longform improvisers).
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
AMNESIA WARS IMPROVISATION:
PERFORMANCE LAB
C/o Rob Reese
454 W. 49 St., #4B
New York, NY 10019
(917) 752-0657
The Lab itself takes place on Monday nights 7-10PM
At the Parkside Lounge, 317-E Houston, NYC.
18 students per class
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing: The lab includes a public performance free to the public (potential lab
Members can audit by attending).
Ongoing.
The Lab is a kind of "missing link" between the class/rehearsal room and the full produced show.
A kind of "improv semi-open mike," the A.W. Lab allows selected, experienced New York improviser to play with various longform improvisational elements and sturctures under the guidance of the A.W. director and company members.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ACTING SCHOOL
453 W. 16 St.
New York, NY 10011
(212) 691-5919
Website: www.atlantictheater.com
12 years in operation.
15 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted: $20 fee.
By sessions.
Teaches the Practial Aethetics Technique, developed by David Mamet and William H. Macy ("Fargo"), and outlined in "A Practical Handbook for the Actor." We emphasize clarity through script analysis and moment to moment work.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
RON AUGUST
516 E. 83rd St.
New York, NY 10028
(212) 861-4528
20 years teaching experience.
10-15 students average per class.
Advanced levels.
Auditing by permission.
By Sessions and Ongoing.
What one thing can stop you as an actor or your true self is fear. Learn to listen, listen to learn. Acting simply through hard work. Know your line and show up on time for class.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Multipurpose
THE MARJORIE BALLENTINE
STUDIO
236 W. 78th St.
New York, NY 10024
(212) 501-7436
Fax: (212) 861-9480
Email: stella@idt.net
10 years plus experience.
12 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing permitted, by appointment only.
By sessions.
Two classes offered this year: Script Interpretation and Advanced Scene Study. Script Interpretation teaches the ability to break down and analyze a script and then bring the playwright's ideas into actual stage work. Highly recommended. Advanced Scene Study will blend general scene study work and learning to take direction with advanced technique and character work. Offered only to students already possessing a basis in technique.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
BOB BARRON
WEIST-BARRON ACTING
FOR TELEVISION/FILM/THEATRE
35 W. 45 St., 6th floor
New York, NY 10036
(212) 840-7025
45 years in operation; first on-camera acting school in the nation.
12 students average per class.
All levels.
By sessions.
Auditing is permitted.
TV commercials (basic & advanced), soap/film/prime-time, theatre, acting technique and scene study, cold readings, monologues, voice-over, showcase opportunities. Separate casting division.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
THE BARROW GROUP
PO Box 5112
New York, NY 10185
(212) 501-2545/fax (212) 253-1909
Website: barrowgroup@earthlink.net
14 years in operation.
12 students average per class.
All levels
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing and by sessions.
The Barrow Group technique focuses on maximizing natural behavior and spontaneity onstage.
Acting School Technique: Acting Technique, Monologue/Audition/Coaching; On Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
NANCY BARRY
PO Box 1384
New York, NY 10023
(212) 642-5396/fax (718) 545-3798
Email: nsbmta@yahoo.com
One student average per class.
Private audition coaching with specialty in finding suitable songs and monologues to build audition portfolio.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ELINOR BASESCU STUDIO
529 W. 42nd St., 8D
New York, NY 10036
(212) 868-1278
Almost 18 years in this studio, 4 in another. Other previous teaching experience at New School, etc.
Private 1-3.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions and ongoing.
All of my ongoing students explore classical and contemporary roles unless they are seeking my help for particular assignments.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
JOHN BASIL
American Globe Theatre Conservatory
145 W. 46 St.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 869-9809
16 years of teaching experience.
One on one class.
All levels.
Auditing not permitted.
Ongoing.
Classical Audition Coach. Specialize in Shakespeare
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
JOANNA BECKSON
325 W. 38 St., Ste. #209-210
New York, NY 10018
(212) 586-6300 or (917) 749-6922 (cell)
Fax: (212) 741-2283
14-16 students per class.
17 years in operation.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted. Interview only.
Ongoing and by sessions.
Contemporary emphasis based in Meisner technique.
Acting School Technique: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Multipurpose
LYNNEA BENSON
Actors Studio member, Artistic prod'r. of Frog & Peach Theatre Co.
(212) 330-7784
7 years experience.
6-10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Emphasis on sensory. All materials including Shakespeare.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
TANYA BEREZIN
171 W. 79 St.
New York, NY 10024
(212) 874-1945/Fax (212) 874-3862
Six years in operation.
Ms. Berezin, an Obie Award-winning actress, is co-founder and former artistic director of the Circle Repertory Company. Six years of coaching private clients for film, TV, and theatre as well as resident acting coach on "All My Children," "One Life to Live," and "As the World Turns."
10 students average per class (Studio Classes).
All levels. Including professional class for young people, 13-18.
Auditing permitted by appointment.
Coaching by session or on set for audition and developing a role.
Special emphasis in classes on contemporary acting; developing the connection of imagination and organic behavior. Private coaching-ongoing, audition, monologue. Studio classes-acting technique.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
KATHRYN BILD
1341 Second Ave., #5N
New York, NY 10021
(212) 517-3265
8 years teaching.
Private coach, one on one.
All levels.
Free interview.
Classes are by appointment.
Private training and career guidance in Stanislavsky/Strasberg, from the spiritual perspective: integrating acting as an art, a business and a calling. Ms. Bild is also a speech and personal success coach, as well as a Grammy award-winning producer and director.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
BETH K. BONGAR
135 Watts St.
New York, NY 10013
(212) 941-8964
Fax: (212) 253-6263
Email: romantic@interport.net
25 years experience, 5 years operating school.
4-5 average students per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Variety of skills are addressed for all levels of training.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
JIM BONNEY STUDIO
134 W. 26 St., Ste. 602
New York, NY 10001
(212) 713-5277
14 years teaching.
12-14 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions and ongoing.
2-year Meisner –Plus® technique, plus 12-week sessions and scene study.
This class is different from others in that emotional development is encouraged and fostered, and movement and body energy are an integral part of the technique. Mr. Bonney is a trained Meisner teacher and certified Core Energetic body worker.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
THE BOVA ACTORS WORKSHOP/
ERIC MORRIS SYSTEM
Anthony Vincent Bova
(212) 726-8380
Teaching since 1978.
12 students maximum per class.
All levels.
Ongoing weekly classes and weekend workshops.
Emphasis on the Eric Morris System, as in "No Acting Please."
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
SULLY BOYAR
(212) 840-1234
(718) 352-7895
Over 20 years teaching experience.
30 years acting experience.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Coaching.
Thinking and focus of the actor, stimulating imagination, fulfilling writer's vision, creating a live and animated space, objectives, relaxation, exercises that count, scene work and analysis.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
KEVIN BROFSKY
SAGE THEATRE INSTITUTE at RAW SPACE
529 W. 42nd. St.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 929-3423
16 years in operation.
15 students average per class.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
MARK J. BROOKS
(AMERICAN MUSICA AND DRAMATIC
ACADEMY)
2109 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
(212) 787-5300/fax (212) 799-4623
Website: www.AMDA.edu
In operation since 1964.
20 students average per class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
No auditing permitted.
By sessions (15 week semester, full-time).
AMDA offers two programs of study in a conservatory setting. Integrated program offers training in singing, acting, and dance; the studio program trains students in acting for stage, film, and TV.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
DELOSS BROWN
444 Central Park West, 5A
New York, NY 10025-4356
(212) 865-1127
Fax: (212) 865-1579
Acting Shakespeare's Verse.
6 years in operation.
7 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is sometimes permitted; free sample class offered at beginning of session.
Sessions.
Emphasis on Shakespeare.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
ELIZABETH BROWNING
Classes in Midtown Manhattan
(212) 946-1702
15 years in operation.
15 students per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Scene study and monologues (classical and contemporary), audition exercises and personalized "instrumental" work, and development of original material.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
DAVID BRUNETTI
71 W. 71st St., #1G
New York, NY 10023
(212) 580-3292/fax (212) 580-3292
21 years in operation.
All levels.
Private coaching.
Meisner-based acting technique applied to songs.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
WALTRUDIS BUCK
155 W. 68 St.
New York, NY 10023
(212) 787-3104
Fax: (212) 787-2830
8 years in operation.
All levels.
Private coaching only. Techniques for all media.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
RICHARD CALIBAN
PO Box 929
New York, NY 10009
(212) 529-0796
Email: Caliban421@aol.comu
Website: members.aol.com/RCWorkshop/Web/Home.html
First year in operation.
20 students average per class.
Intermediate and advanced.
Auditing is permitted, beginning in Oct.
Ongoing.
This is not a technique class, and no particular style or method is taught or promoted. The workshop includes actors, playwrights, and directors.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
JAMES CALLERI
416 W. 42nd St.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 564-1235
fax: (212) 594-0296
10 years in operation/experience.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing sometimes permitted
By sessions.
Private coaching only at this time. No classes available.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Private Coaching
LIZ CAPLAN
344 W. 23 St., Ste. 2E
New York, NY 10011
(212) 645-9369 (also fax)
Email: LizVocal@aol.com
Website: www.LizCaplan.com
23 years in operation.
1 student average per private class.
10 students average per class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing permitted by appointment.
By sessions.
Musical theatre technique for singing/rock/pop technique. Students are principals in Broadway shows and with major record labels.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition Coaching (vocal coaching/voice teacher)
AMANDA CASTLE
325 W. 45 St.
New York, NY 10019
(212) 765-8330
All levels.
Group classes/Private coaching available
I have been teaching for 12 years and have seen consistently that all actors face the same challenge: Being totally present in the moment on stage. Actors tend to be judging the line they just said or interpreting the line to come, rather than allowing BEHAVIOR (right brain function) to inform lines (left brain function) It is the ability to fuse those two brain functions that is the source of all good acting. My class gives you a simple process to do just that.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ROBERT CASTLE
Mail: 529 3 St.
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Classes taught in Manhattan.
(718) 369-1121
10 years in operation.
12 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Scene study and sense memory classes. Class works on one or two playwrights per session. Private coaching also available.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
CAYMICHAEL PATTEN
STUDIO
211 W. 61 St., 6th fl.
New York, NY 10023
(212) 765-7021
Website: www.cpattenstudio.com
16 years in operation.
16 students maximum.
All levels.
No auditing.
Ongoing.
Preparation for scene study, scene study, advanced scene study, audition, movement, vocal production, sensory workout and teen class. Also coaching.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
THE CENTAUR STAGE
Gillien Goll, Artistic Director
P.O. Box 250795 C. U. Station
New York, NY 10025
(212) 501-6196
14 years in operation.
Private coaching one-on-one plus small (4-6 students) semi-private classes.
Coaching for all levels.
On-camera class.
Auditing is encouraged for classes.
Ongoing.
Instruction for all media, including monologues, commercials, audition technique, on-camera, business tips, public presentation skills. Emphasis is on supportive moment-to-moment technique.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial); Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Multipurpose
CHICAGO CITY LIMITS
1105 First Ave.
New York, NY 10021
(212) 888-5233/fax:(212) 888-0810
Website: www.chicagocitylimits.com
Email: CCLComedy@aol.com or ChicagoCityLimits.com
20 years in operation.
10-15 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted for some classes.
By sessions.
Classes teach the improv techniques used by the performers of CCL. The emphasis is on scene-making skills, learning to work quickly and intelligently. Recommended for actors, writers, comedians, and directors.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
THE CHILDREN'S ACTING ACADEMY
Monica May, dir.
1050 5th Ave.
New York, NY 10028
Classes taught at 131 W. 72 St.
(212) 860-7101
29 years in operation.
8-10 students per class.
All levels.
Ages 7-18 average
Professional teen program.
No auditing; admission by interview and audition.
By sessions. Classes after school.
A professional theatre program for the shy or outgoing with emphasis on speech, improv, scene study, and performance. Staged production of famous scenes is given to invited audience of friends and talent scouts. Private coaching available.
Acting School Category: Children/Teens
CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE
THEATRE SCHOOL
1633 Broadway at 50th Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 307-0388
Fax: (212) 307-0257
37 years in operation.
18 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
An eclectic approach to actor training, exposing students to various acting styles and different viewpoints on those styles.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
CITY LIGHTS YOUTH
THEATRE, INC.
130 W. 56 St.
New York, NY 10019
(212) 262-0200/fax (212) 262-1888
Website: www.clyouththeatre.org
10 years in operation.
15 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Fall after-school and weekend theatre arts classes for grades 2-12 begin Sept. 16. Age appropriate instruction in acting, musical theatre, dance, playwriting, and production. Call for a brochure (212) 262-0200.
Acting School Category: Children/Teens
CLASS ACT STUDIOS
77 Tarrytown Rd.
White Plains, NY 10607
(914) 946-3391/fax (914) 946-1547
Website: www.classactstudios.com
10 years in operation.
8-10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Acting School Category: On Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
CLASS CLOWN COMPANY
135 Watts St.
New York, NY 10013
(212) 941-8964/fax (212) 925-6459
5 years in operation.
5 students average per class.
All levels.
Ongoing and by sessions.
Clown skills, juggling, magic, balloon animals, facepainting, clown characer.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
COACHING BY ARIANE BRANDT
39-1/2 Washington Square South #2
New York, NY 10012
(212) 473-4803 or (877) 426-2294
Fax (212) 473-4803
Email: coachan@aol.com
10 years in operation.
10 students average for groups
Intermediate and Advanced levels.
Auditing by permission per group.
By sessions (privately) and ongoing (scene study).
Classical and contemporary material approached with a combination of British text-based techniques and method psycho-emotional grounding. Specialties in audition and role preparation for the working actor, with a focus on the artists's well being.
Acting Category: Multipurpose
SUSAN GRACE COHEN
STUDIO
(in association with John Strasberg Studio)
Located in Chelsea area.
(212) 678-8515
Email: sgcstudio@aol.com
25 years teaching experience.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is suggested.
Ongoing day and evening classes.
Sense memory/scene study training for the stage screen, with focus on development of working actors. Scene nights, film, musical theatre classes, and workshops with agents. Private coaching on audition monologues, cold readings, career development.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Children/Teens; Comedy/Improv; On Camera (Film/TV/Commerical); Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Multipurpose.
SUSAN GRACE COHEN
STUDIO-TEEN PROGRAM
(in association with John Strasberg Studios)
Located in Chelsea area.
(212) 678-8515
Email: sgcstudio@aol.com
25 years teaching experience.
8 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
A diversified Saturday program for teens 13-17 focusing on communcations skills, technique, scenes, monologues, and movement. Audition skills and private coaching is available for professional teens; or as preparation for college entrance exams.
Acting School Category: Children/Teens; Acting Technique; Comedy/Improv; On Camera (Film/TV/Commerical); Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Multipurpose.
LEE MICHAEL COHN
(800) 560-0093
Location TBA.
Teaching and coaching privately for 12 years.
12-16 students average per class.
All levels.
One audit is permitted.
By 10-week sessions.
Emphasis on technique described in Cohn's book "A Practical Handbook for the Actor"; classes include script analysis, scene study, and technique. Focus on making strong action choices and executing them with imagination/spontaneity. Strong moment-to-moment work also emphasized. Mr. Cohen was recently profiled in "Qualified Coaches: NY," published by Smith & Kraus.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
COLLABORATIVE ARTS
PROJECT 21
18 W. 18 St., 6th floor
New York, NY 10011
(212) 807-0202/fax (212) 807-0166
Website: www.cap.21.org
5 years in operation.
18 students maximum per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Classes in acting, voice and music, and dance. 4-year musical theatre performance training program with NYU. Also comprehensive summer professional program including acting/scene study and audition/preparation.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
CREATIVE ACTING COMPANY
Gus Waite, artistic dir.
122 W. 26 St., #1102
New York, NY 10001
(212) 352-2103/fax (212) 352-2076
Website: www.creativeacting.com
4 years in operation.
10 students average per class; private coaching available.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Company seeks to provide a creative home for actors to develop and maintain their craft; emphasizes the need to hone skills and encourages students to audition and to maintain a high profile within the community. Comedy performances weekly by students in black box theatre.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; On Camera (Film/TV/Commercial); Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Children/Teens; Multipurpose
THE CREATIVE ACTOR'S
WORKSHOP
Jeffrey Zeiner
451 W. 43 St.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 245-1237
15 years teaching experience.
10 students average per class.
Advanced training for professionals by
interview and reference.
Free introductory seminar offered three times a year.
Ongoing.
Contemporary material. Emphasis on development of actor's own technique, ability to direct imagination, accomplished through improvisation.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
CREATIVE ARTISTS LABORATORY
946 Columbus Ave.
New York, NY 10025
(212) 316-0400
Fax: (212) 316-0400
5 years in operation.
15 students per class.
Intermediate and advanced.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Bringing your character to life by knowing your characters objectively, working moment to moment.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
ROBERT DAGNY
Box 852, FDR Station
New York, NY 10150-0852
(212) 371-8258 (telephone/fax/ans. machine)
Creator of "The Performer Audition Package"
25 years teaching experience.
Private one-on-one sessions.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Custom-directed film, TV, and stage monologues, scenes, musical numbers, and tailor-made cabaret acts; emphasis on cold readings, image presentation, "grab 'em" monologue selection; commercial copy preparation sessions.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
SUSANNA DALTON
146 E. 49 St., PHN
New York, NY 10017
(212) 980-1971
7 years teaching experience.
8 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
8-week sessions and coaching by appointment.
Small, affordable on-camera classes, marketing and career strategy, and private coaching in on- camera skills for commercials, films, sitcoms, soaps, infomercials, and home-shopping hosts, agent interviewing, and image makeovers by established industry professional.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
COLETTE DELACROIX
MA, Reiki Practicioner
(718) 788-8453
Introduction to acting: preparation and presentation; the business of acting; determination and discipline; "Reiki": Energy & Effectiveness.
Acting School Category:Acting Technique
BRIAN DELATE
(212) 924-1154
15 years teaching experience.
Private coaching only.
All levels.
The most personal way to be yourself in any role.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ELYNN DIAMOND STUDIO
for singers, actors, and dancers.
28 W. 27 St., 5th fl.
New York, NY 10001
(646) 935-0661
22 years teaching experience.
Maximum 15 students.
One-on-one instruction every week.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing process.
Offering monologue and scene study classes, singing performance classes, private singing lessons, and private coaching with Elynn Diamond. Students work at their own level, following their individual and unique paths to artistry and self-expression.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
NINA DOVA ON-CAMERA
COMMERCIAL TRAINING
280 Riverside Drive, 10B
New York, NY 10025
(212) 222-7651
Fax: (212) 222-7651*51 (service must be on)
Email: dovakoor@hotmail.com
10 years in operation.
8 students average per class.
Beginning and intermediate levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Affordable on camera acting, monologues, and audition classes. Private sessions available.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
COLETTE DUVALL
425 W. 23 St., # 9A
New York, NY 10011
(212) 352-2103/fax (212) 352-2076
10 years—5 years in New York; 5 years in L.A.
10-15 students for on-camera and acting technique/scene study classes; private coaching available.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Focus is on getting to performance level being your own director. Technique marries the emotional/physical to the text to build the scene dramatically and professionally to its most dramatic potential.
Acting School Category: On Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
THE EASTERN HILL THEATRE WORKSHOP
460 W. 50 St., #1D
New York, NY 10019
(212) 245-9223 (also fax no.-press *)
Email: Ebeasthill@aol.com
Two years in operation.
10 students average per class.
Advanced level.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Eastern Hill was formed two years ago as a commitment to the work of the great director and teacher, Bobby Lewis. Edward Burke, assistant to Mr. Lewis for 14 years, conducts all sessions. Coaching available.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
PAUL EISEMAN
305 E. 40 St., No. 4H
New York, NY 10016
(212) 953-6926
Email: pauleise@aol.com
Over 20 years experience.
1 student average per class.
All levels.
By sessions and ongoing.
One-on-one private coaching by acting coach consistently recommended to their clients by NY top agents and managers. Concentrating on connecting the actor emotionally to the character, finding you in the character, to produce truthful, unpredictable, exciting, emotionally charged performances. "Method acting" customized and made practical for each actor.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ENDEAVOR STUDIO
19 W. 21 St., Ste. 404
New York, NY 10010
(212) 645-2641/fax (212) 645-4102
One year in operation.
12 students average per class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is permitted by arrangement.
By sessions and ongoing.
Audition technique.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE
549 W. 52 St.
New York, NY 10019
(212) 247-4982 or (212) 581-9409
Fax: (212) 664-0041
Website: www.ensemblestudiothe atre.org
28 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions and ongoing.
For actors, playwrights, and directors. Ten-week sessions, ongoing labs, and weekend workshops.
Emphasis on creating new work and mastering the classics. Specializes in giving artists a chance to "crossover" into directing, playwriting, or acting.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
WILLIAM ESPER STUDIO
261 West 35 St., 7th fl.
New York, NY 10001
(212) 904-1350
32 years of experience.
Maximum of 22 students in a class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Dedicated to the work of Sanford Meisner and William Esper. 2-year professional actor training program. Script analysis, cold reading, auditioning, voice/speech, classical text, mask, and advanced scene study.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
LARRY EUDENE
(800) 607-4942
Website: www.efworks.com/aif.htm
8 years in operation. Teaches both in NYC and L.A.
Classes limited to 8-10 students.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Acting and films with advanced scene study and sub-text improvisation designed to help actors make the transition into feature films. Class concentrates on a focusing technique used to draw the camera to the actor.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial); Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/ Coaching; Children/Teens
THE PETER FLINT STUDIO
484 W. 43 St., 32 L
New York, NY 10036
(212) 244-2649/fax (212) 947-0693
Email: scottyrob@aol.com
28 years in operation.
6-8 students average per class.
All levels.
Ongoing.
Classical, contemporary, actor/singer development, cold readings.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
GENE FRANKEL THEATRE & FILM WORKSHOP
24 Bond St.
New York, NY 10012
(212) 777-1767
45 years in operation.
Size of class varies.
All levels.
Most classes are ongoing.
Acting for theatre, film, and television from contemporary to classical: clowning, speech and diction, voice, tap, Shakespeare, improvisation, image and marketing. Scene, monologue, and cold reading coaching/ classes.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
RUTH FRANKLIN
PO Box 142
New York, NY 10023-0142
(212) 496-9696
20 years voice-over teaching experience.
Eight-week course, culminating with a professional demo tape.
Career-oriented master class in every facet of voice-overs. Highly specialized, individual curriculum. Subjects taught: radio and television spokesperson, cartoon and character voices, narration, marketing plan, etc. Audition required for entrance. Held in professional working record studio. 90% graduates working in field.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
FREESTYLE REPERTORY THEATRE
120 W. 86 St., 1A
New York, NY 10024
(212) 642-8202
Website: www.echony.com/freestyle
Email: freestyle@echonyc.com
15 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions (weekly classes) Ongoing (monthly drop-in).
Narrative theatrical improvisation; strong characters and relationships; both short-form and long- form with focus on teamwork, support and fun!
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
CATHERINE GAFFIGAN
(212) 586-6300
Website: members.theglobe.com/gaffigan,catherine.htm
29 years in operation.
12 students maximum per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
Wide range of material; Stanislavsky technique plus strategies learned on the job.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
BILL GALARNO
461 W. 44 St. 1-E
New York, NY 10036
(212) 765-9002
Private coach for 15 years.
1-2 students per class.
Preparation for audition and performance (stage, film, TV, cabaret): monologues, songs, scenes, dialects, cold readings. Emphasis: text, style, language, Shakespeare, musicals, contemporary comedy. (Training: Lloyd Richards; David Perry; Royal Nat. Theatre Studio, London.) Working actor/dir.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
GATE—GREGORY ABELS TRAINING ENSEMBLE
28 W. 27 St.
New York, NY 10001-6906
Phone/Fax: (212) 689-9371
Website: www.gateacting.com
5 years in operation; 39 years experience
12 students average per class; faculty of 6 and guest artists, private coaching available.
Intermediate and advanced students.
Auditing is encouraged.
By sessions.
Several approaches in both classical and contemporary; one year, full day time conservatory; Mr. Abels is available for private coaching; New York performances in March and May.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
JOSEPH GIARDINA
772 Piermont Ave.
Piermont, NY 10968
(212) 626-9059
14 years teaching experience.
15-20 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Emphasis on sensory work. Vocal workshops included. Teaching method draws from various techniques and philosophies to help develop an organically connected and responsive instrument.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
DAVID GIDEON, THE ACTING
CLASS
111 Barrow St.
New York, NY 10014
(212) 645-1025
23 years teaching experience.
18 years at Lee Strasberg Institute.
15 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing may be permitted.
Ongoing.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
GWYN GILLISS
COMMUNICATIONS
666 Fifth Ave., Suite 323
New York, NY 10103
Phone/Fax: (212) 595-9001
Website: www.actingcareer.com
10 years in operation.
Private one-on-one.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
A career coach, who helps actors obtain excellent marketing tools, confidence in presentation, and auditioning and connections to industry professionals.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
BLAIR GLASER
The Institutes for the Arts in Psychotherapy
526 W. 26 St., Ste. 309
New York, NY 10001
(212) 726-1592
Website: www.askblair.com
Email: blair@askblair.com
4 years teaching experience.
1-2 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions and ongoing.
An eclectic myriad of modalities are used to bring actors to their full potential, builidng confidence and consistency in their ability to be simple, honest, and mesmerizing in any type of acting work.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ABRAHAM GORLIN
245 W. 75 St., Apt. 1E
New York, NY 10023
(212) 721-3830
Email: _abraham.gorlin@gte.net
16 years in operation.
1 student averager per class.
All levels.
Ongoing.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
GOTHAM CITY IMPROV, INC.
158 W. 23 St., Suite 2
New York, NY 10011
(212) 367-8222/fax (212) 367-8185
Website: www.gothamcityimprov.com
10 years in operation.
13 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
Short- and long-form improvisational comedy (emphasis on character development), and comedy writing (monologues and scenes.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
THE GROWN-UP'S
PLAYGROUND
Joy Newman, founder-director
New York Comedy Club
241 E. 24 St.
New York, NY 10010
(212) 714-8275
7 years in operation (5 years teaching independently).
Average students per class varies.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted. (Free sample classes).
Ongoing.
Comedy and improvisation, teaches quick-thinking, helpful for auditions; ensemble work, character work, emotional-pantomime. Give & take exercises help develop good listening skills, an attentive mind, a fluid body, a generous nature. Be more spontaneous and gain confidence.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
GS IMPROV
Improvisational Comedy Acting Instruction at Producers Club Theaters, 358 W. 44 St., just east of Ninth Ave.
Greg Sullivan, instructor
(212) 501-2905
Website: www.gsimprov.com
Email: greg@gsimprov.com
4 years in operation.
16 students average per class; 8 students average per workshop.
All levels.
Classes—For those under 18, Sat. 1-3 pm; Adults Performance Workshop, Mon. 8-10 pm; Long-Form Improv Class, 8-10:30 pm; Short-Form Improv Class, Wed. 8-10:30 pm.
Auditing and trial classes permitted.
Ongoing.
The focus is on listening, spontaneity, comedy, and creating the environment. See display ad for more info.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
GUSHEE-Anania Studio
306 W. 38 St.,
New York, NY 10018
(212) 279-0707
Interviewing now for fall classes.
Acting classes in the Meisner technique.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
DOUGLAS HALL
PO Box 1758
New York, NY 10011
(212) 802-7298
9 years in operation.
16 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
All levels.
Ongoing.
Classes formerly taught by Charles Kakatsakis.
Acting School Technique: Acting Technique
CAROL HANSEN
(212) 222-4145
16 years experience.
Private coaching.
All levels.
Ongoing.
Experienced acting coach will help select monologue and/or scenes, plus in-depth work on sides.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
KATE HARPER
ENCORE STAGE COMPANY
525 West End Ave., 2F
New York, NY 10024
(212) 721-3286
16 years in operation.
15-20 students.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted—admittance through interview only.
Seasonal workshop master classes, private coaching.
Body/mind connection, using your experience to guide your work, unblocking of creative energy, exercises, scene study, monologues, the study of a role.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
THE HARRISON PROJECT
Peter Kelley
105 Greene St.
New York, NY 10012
(212) 966-3100
Fax: (212) 431-3733
Website: www.harrisonproject.com
7 years in operation.
12 students per class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
The Harrison Project offers rigorous scene-based study of film acting techniques.
A camera is used occasionally to illustrate issues specific to actor's work on-camera; actors should be prepared to work extensively outside of class. Free materials available.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
ROSEMARY HAY
Artistic dir.
REV Theatre Company
302 W. 51 St., #4D
New York, NY 10019
(212) 581-5377
10 years experience teaching & directing; Royal Shakespeare Co., Williamstown Theatre Festival, Juilliard School, NYU Graduate Acting, Stella Adler Conservatory, American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Private coaching/one-on-one sessions.
Shakespeare and classical coaching, with focus on selection of monologues, preparation and rehersal especially for undergraduate/graduate and conservatory programs in the U.S. and England.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
HB STUDIO
120 Bank St.
New York, NY 10014
(212) 675-2370
Website: www.hbstudio.org
55 years in operation.
20-25 students average per class.
All levels.
Classes for young people.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
No film or on-camera classes.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
HENRY STREET
SETTLEMENT ABRONS ARTS CENTER DRAMA PROGRAM
466 Grand St.
New York, NY 10002
(212) 598-0400/fax: (212) 505-8329
Email: jBWardarts@aol.com
105 years in operation.
15 students in class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing classes.
American Method Acting and other techniques to develop actors for a culturally diverse theater.
Acting School Technique: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Children/Teens; Multipurpose
HISPANIC ORGANIZATION OF LATIN ACTORS (HOLA)
107 Suffolk St., Ste. 302
New York, NY 10002-3305
(212) 253-1015/fax (212) 253-9651
Website: www.hellohola.org
Email: holagram@aol.com
26 years in operation.
10 students per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Workshops & seminars designed to perfect Spanish language voice-over and on-camera commercial technique.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose; On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
ERIC HOFFMANN
310 Riverside Drive., No. 1505
New York, NY 10025
(212) 662-5790
Email: bardyard@aol.com
20 years experience.
8 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Shakespeare and audition technique.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
PRUDENCE HOLMES
"The Monologue Detective"
255 W. 108 St., #9D
New York, NY 10025
(212) 864-6525/fax (212) 865-9084
Email: merwan1@gte.net
17 years in operation.
1 student average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Emphasis on monologue selection and audition preparation.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
HOMEGROWN THEATER
Wally Strauss, artistic director
2628 Broadway, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10025
(212) 961-0962
6 years in operation, 3 in new theatre space.
Private coaching; up to 15 students per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
Beginning scene study, sensory acting exercises, advanced scene study, body movement, and improv. Students are showcased after six months.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ARABELLA HONG-YOUNG
Studio: Nola Studios
250 W. 54 St., 11th fl.
New York, NY 10019
(914) 354-1422
Technique: A solid vocal foundation based on classical techniques and adapted for each style in music—from musical theatre, pop, rock, and jazz to opera. A unique acting approach structured for singers producing individual conviction, spontaneous body movement, and expressive freedom in high notes. Ms. Hong-Young is the author of the new book on studying singing, "Singing Professionally."
Specialization: A special vocal adaptation for each style of singing form musical theater, prop, rock, and jazz to opera-based on a classical vocal method.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
WILLIAM D. HOPKINS
190 Webster Ave.
Jersey City, NJ 07307
(201) 659-2256/fax (201) 610-0503
Email: Har2Hop@aol.com
8 years in operation.
8 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Single-camera acting techniques, both comedy and drama. Not multi-camera sit-com—a soap opera situation.
Acting School Technique: On Camera (Film/TV/Commercial); Monologue/Audition/Coaching
MICHAEL HOWARD STUDIOS
152 W. 25 St.
New York, NY 10001
(212) 645-1525
Website: www.michaelhowardstudios.com
46 years in operation.
15 students average per class.
Some previous training preferred.
Auditing is not permitted.
Most enrollment through interview. Free weekly information sessions.
Ongoing classes.
Workshops by session.
Work in all disciplines for the professional actor. Special workshops with international master teachers.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
HUMBER COMEDY CENTER
1600 Broadway, Ste. 614
New York, NY 10019
(212) 247-5555/fax (212) 247-5568
Website: www.comedyinstitute.com
First year in operation.
16 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
27 instructional weeks, a one-year, comprehensive program in comedy.
Comprehensive program in writing and performing stand-up comedy, on-camera acting, sitcom audtiion class, acting through improv, fundamentals of acting, commercial audition technique, improv, sketch comedy writing and performing.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improf
I.N.C. PRODUCTIONS
(212) 877-2460
Over 20 years experience.
Actors and singing actors.
Technique to encourage your uniqueness. Private, semi-private, and small classes.
Complete professional training for serious actors.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
IMPROVISATIONAL
THEATER FOR CHILDREN
Vivian B. Teich, dir.
50 Central Park West, #4B
New York, NY 10023
(212) 874-5054
Classes on Upper East and West Side.
12 years in operation.
15-20 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing permitted in most classes.
Ongoing and by sessions.
Classes for children in a theatre setting; non-threatening, relaxed atmosphere; chance to perform regularly.
Acting School Category: Children/Teens
SUSAN JEFFRIES
Private coaching at Savoir Studio
228 W. 72 St., #2R
New York, NY 10023
(212) 787-8352
8 years teaching experience.
Private coaching.
One-on-one and scenes with partners.
Professional actors.
Clear and concise approach to working with the script, developing the character, and audition preparation.
Acting School Category: Multipurpsoe
ED JENNINGS
515 W. 110 St., 11G
New York, NY 10025
Phone/fax: (212) 865-3203
Two years in operation.
10 students average per class.
Beginning and intermediate levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Emphasis on acquiring an agent. How to audition for casting directors and talent agents. Make a living as a working actor.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
JAMES JENNINGS
American Theatre of Actors
314 W. 54 St.
New York, NY 10019
(212) 581-3044
22 years in operation.
10-12 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Sense memory, emotional memory, environment, and scene study. Video classes available. Method.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
BARBARA KAHN
Greenwich Village location
(212) 840-1234
17 years teaching independently.
Private sessions.
Intermediate and advanced only.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions or ongoing.
Audition techniques, monologues, callbacks, performance trouble-shooting, and expanding acting skills.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
PROFESSOR JULIA L. KEEFER
408 E. 78 St., 3B
New York, NY 10021
(212) 734-1083
Email: julia.keefer@nyu.edu
Website: ww.nyu.edu/classes/keefer
30 years in operation.
15 students maximum per class.
All levels.
By sessions.
Free participation as performers in NYU's screenwriting showcases and cyberperformances—
Private coaching for one-person shows.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
RAPHAEL KELLY
SHAKESPEARE STUDIO
168 E. 89 St.
New York, NY 10028
(212) 289-1392
26 years in operation.
7-8 students average per class.
All levels, by interview.
By sessions and private coaching.
True classical traditions emphasizing phrasing, motivation, vocal imagery, and physical style in classical acting.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
E. KATHERINE KERR
195 Sharp Hill Rd.
Wilton, CT 06897
(212) 769-9405
(203) 762-7304
Website: www.ekatherinekerr.com
Email: Actingclass@aol.com
16 years in operation.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Monologue, scene study, improvisation, original writing, songs. Emphasis on authentic acting, expanding creative expression, risk-taking. The ground-breaking acting book, "The Four Principles," by award-winning actress actress Kerr is available to interested students. Free class by apoointment.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
KIDS LOVE ACTING
at Weist-Barron Studios
Sharon Richardson, children's dir.
35 W. 45 St.
New York, NY 10036
Inquiries: (212) 874-1081
Studio: (212) 840-7025
7-10 students per class.
Beginning through advanced levels.
Focus is on ages (6)7-12. (Little people's workshops 4 to 6-year-olds.) Eight or 14-week programs, and private coaching.
Commercials, film, TV, and stage. After-school or Saturday workshops. Full summer programs July or August.
Acting School Category: Children/Teens
REX KNOWLES & SHERRY LANDRUM
The New Actors Workshop
259 W. 30 St., 2nd floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 947-1310
Fax: (212) 947-9729
Website: www.newactorswork shop.com
Email: newactorsw@aol.com
25 years of teaching experience.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Improvisation: fun, fast-paced, supportive classes using work of Spolin and Johnstone. Recommended by former student, Garry Shandling.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
WILLIAM KOCH
Theatre of the Elephant
540 W. 47 St., #16
New York, NY 10036
(212) 956-2006
30+ years teaching experience.
10-15 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing and by sessions.
My classes offer a regular, safe, fun workspace for performers to grow as individual artists through performing, constructive caring criticism, and observation/assimilation.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
ED KOVENS
THE PROFESSIONAL
WORKSHOP
20 Dongan Place, 311
New York, NY 10040
(212) 567-6761
Fax: same as above, call first.
Website: www.buzznyc.com/edko
33 years in operation.
9-15 students average per class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Method-oriented; Strasberg technique.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
BOB KRAKOWER
Teaching at One On One Productions
126 W. 23 St.
New York, NY 10011
(212) 691-6000/fax (212) 633-1492
Website: www.oneoneone.bigstep.com
8 years in operation.
14 students average per class.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
Classes are by audition only.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
DEBORAH KYM
PO Box 1702
New York, NY 10101-1702
(212) 841-1672
12 years as a teacher.
5 years at Stella Adler Conservatory.
6 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing permitted on certain days.
Classes are ongoing and by sessions; private coaching.
Theatre, film, and TV: Mainly contemporary except in theatre audition classes. Script interpretation based on Stella Adler's technique and physical truth through improvisation.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
THE LAB THEATER SCHOOL
140 W. 44th St.
New York, NY 10036
School: (212) 252-5510
Theater Office: (212) 719-5699
Fax: (212) 391-1909
Email: thelabco@aol.com
Inaugural season.
8-12 students in class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By session.
The artists formerly associated with Circle Rep offer classes in acting, directing, and playwriting. Fall faculty includes Lanford Wilson, Michael Warren Powell, Peg Denithorne, Alison Summers, Ray Steinberg, Annie Eurie, and Kim Moare Fi.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
SHERRY LANDRUM
The New Actors Workshop
259 W. 30 St., 2nd floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 947-1310/fax (212) 947-9729
Email: newactorsw@aol.com
Website: www.newactorsworkshop.com
25 years of teaching experience.
Call for interview.
Private coaching for monologues.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
SARA LAZARUS STUDIO
Classes in Midtown Manhattan
(212) 864-7901
10 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Musical theatre audition and performance technique; private coaching on monologues, scenes, and songs.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
ROSETTA LENOIRE MUSICAL THEATRE ACADEMY
c/o AMAS Musical Theatre, Inc.
450 W. 42 St., Suite 2J
New York, NY 10036
(212) 563-2565
Fax: (212) 263-5501
Email: AMAS@westegg.com
Website: Westegg.com/AMAS
32 years in operation.
35 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Students take classes in singing, dancing, acting, and the business of theatre and perform a musical for two weeks on Theatre Row.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
DEENA LEVY THEATRE
STUDIO
215 W. 20 St., 2W
New York, NY 10011
(212) 340-1084
9 years in operation.
12 students average per class.
All levels.
No auditing permitted.
Ongoing.
Approach utilizing Meisner, Method, and Grotowski techniques, based on the assumption "that the character is stuck with you." The studio also offers a weekend intensive for beginner/intermediate actors.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
ERIC LOEB STUDIO
(212) 243-5331
16 years teaching experience.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
New technique, contemporary, on-camera, audition technique, and career help.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commerical)
BERNICE LOREN
AT EXPRESSIONS
350 W. 55 St., 3F
New York, NY 10019
(212) 586-8604
Over 25 years teaching experience.
Private and group classes (with a maximum of 4 in each group).
All levels.
Auditing not permitted at private lessons. Lengthy interviews are offered instead.
Groups by term; private study by sessions.
Total performing preparation: Acting, voice, and dance approached as a unit.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
THE BOB LUKE
ACTING STUDIO
Bob Luke, Casting Consultant
341 W. 47 St.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 245-2831/fax (212) 957-5363
Email: blukeactst@aol.com
15 years teaching experience.
Private coaching.
All levels.
Initial interview class is free.
Ongoing.
Emphasis on the individuals and their ability to "direct" themselves. Current audition techniques; commercial, film/TV training, and marketing to prepare the actor for the working market as quickly as possible.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
LUNA STAGE COMPANY
7 Oak Place
Montclair, NJ 07042
(973) 744-3309/fax (973) 509-2388
Website: www.lunastage.org
Email: lunastage@viconet.com
7 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Classes are process-oriented; geared to the individual's creative process. Classes are "serious fun"—theatresports, improvisation, and scene study.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
EUGENIA MACER-STORY
511 Avenue of the Americas, PMB 173
New York, NY 10011-8436
(212) 727-0002/fax (212) 208-2951
Email: Mindstyles@aol.com
25 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted with fee.
Ongoing and by sessions.
Very contemporary, using the "inner Force" to develop individual "signature" and "style" for all media, including internet.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
MAGGIE MAES
Actor's Loft Lab
(212) 358-5003
14 years teaching experience.
10-12 students average per class.
All levels.
Interview/audition required.
Auditing possible.
Ongoing.
12-week session with periodic industry guest teachers.
Private coaching available. Runs Mondays 6-9PM, and Thursdays, 11AM-2PM.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
CATHERINE MARKS
WORKSHOP
250 E. 73 St.
New York, NY 10021
(212) 737-5911
21 years in operation.
All classes private one-on-one.
All levels.
Interview required (no fee).
On-going in five one-hour session cycles.
All major drama techniques. All classes are on-camera (students retain videocassettes). Training for all media including commercials, soaps, film, and stage. Emphasis on monologues, directions for auditions and cold read. Voice-overs: training/coaching professional demos (J-card/labels). Singers; direction & producing for cabaret and CD's. Telephone coaching available.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
ROBERT MARKS
850 Seventh Ave., Suite 804
New York, NY 10019
(212) 664-1654/fax 245-4120
Email: bob@bobmarks.com
Website: www.bobmarks.com
28 years in operation.
Private only.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Preparation of songs for performance for auditions, clubs, and recordings. Digital orchestrations and transpositions.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
WILLIAM MARTIN
222 W. 83 St., #4B
New York, NY 10024
(212) 724-1548/fax (212) 724-1548
28 years in operation.
One or two students only per class.
All levels.
By sessions and ongoing.
Classical, contemporary, and voice and diction. Private coaching and consulting sessions for auditions, sharpening acting skills, scene breakdown, and character analysis and development.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ROBERT McCASKILL
c/o The Players Theatre
115 MacDougal St.
New York, NY 10012
(212) 777-6050
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
JEAN McCLELLAND
PO Box 2281
New York, NY 10108
(212) 969-0783/fax (201) 854-2483
Email: muzen@mindspring.com
20 years in operation.
10 students per class.
All levels.
By session.
Alexander technique uncovers the body's natural coordination leading to greater physical and vocal freedom, ease, and spontaneity.
Classes held at 129 W. 67 St., NYC.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
JODIE LYNNE McCLINTOCK
Private Coaching and Classes
49-01 39th Ave.
Sunnyside, NY 11104
(718) 476-2590
More than 20 years teaching experience in major universities and conservatory programs in this country and the United Kingdom and as a private acting coach.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted with some restrictions. Free sample class days available. Private coaching on an hourly basis. Classes by term (5 or 12 weeks).
Private coaching: monologue selection (classical and contemporary) and polishing, sides, role preparation, general auditions for graduate schools or overseas programs. Classes—Beginning Shakespeare: sonnets, soliloquies, and text; Advanced Shakespeare: playing with passion, rehearsal repertory into performance.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Multipurpose; Acting Technique
MEDICINE SHOW THEATRE ENSEMBLE
Barbara Vann and James Barbosa, Artistic Directors
549 W. 52 St., 3rd fl.
New York, NY 10019
(212) 262-4216
30 years in operation.
Under 12 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted sometimes by arrangement.
Ongoing.
Classes designed to extend the actor's reach and vocabulary, and to build a company. Medicine Show is a theatre that uses entertainment to present new ideas about theatre and life, melds the strength of theatrical tradition with experiment and innovation, and works with a company of dedicated practitioners to build new visions of communal endeavor.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
CHRISTOPHER MERTZ
Former talent agent
364 W. 18 St., 3A
New York, NY 10011
(212) 255-4810
4 years teaching experience.
One-on-one.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Commercial acting technique and/or career counseling.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
WILLIAM METZO
300 W. 55th St., Apt. 175
New York, NY 10036
(212) 956-8294
Website: http://home.att.net/~metzo
12 years in operation.
6 students in class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Includes work on Shakespeare, monologues, and helping advanced students with auditions.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
HOWARD MEYER'S
ACTING CLASSES IN NORTHERN WESTCHESTER
The Schoolhouse Theatre
1 Owens Road
Croton Falls, NY 10519
(914) 628-0118
10 years teaching experience.
12 students per class; private coaching.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Method orientation based in Strasberg and Meisner, coupled with heavy influence from physical theatre.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
STEPHEN MICHAELS
(212) 684-0630
18 years teaching experience.
10 students maximum per class. Also private coaching for auditions and work on roles.
All levels.
By interview only.
Ongoing: payment is by the month.
My work can be broken down into six major technical areas: script interpretation, action, and intent, use of the personal self, use of the partner, character work, and performance problems. Audition preparation and work on roles.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ROBERT X. MODICA
Carnegie Hall
881 7th Ave., Room 809
New York, NY 10019
(212) 245-2089
41 years teaching.
16-20 students average per class.
All levels.
Ongoing.
For students to realize their talents by doing fully and truthfully all elements that make up the work they do in and out of class.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
MONOLOGUES
with Karen Kohlhaas of Atlantic Theater Company
(212) 252-4200
11 years teaching experience.
8 students average per class.
6-week workshops.
Classes in the fall and spring; call for dates.
A dynamic and reliable approach to rehearsing monologues that also addresses all aspects of auditioning. For actors who have some previous training (not suitable for beginners).
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
THE ERIC MORRIS SYSTEM
Eric Morris, author of "No Acting Please"
(212) 726-8380
40 years in operation.
20 actors per two-day workshop maximum.
All levels.
By session: two-day workshops, 10AM-6PM.
Method base technique.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
LUCY MOSES SCHOOL
129 W. 67 St.
New York, NY 10023
(212) 501-3360/fax (212) 874-7865
40 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
Beginners and Intermediate levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Adults and teens - scene study and performance. Children - musical theater, creating a role.
Acting School Category: Children/Teens
DOUG MOSTON
DRAMA PROJECT, INC.
440 Lafayette St.
New York, NY 10003
(212) 674-1166
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
NINA MURANO
C/o Raw Space
529 W. 42 St.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 840-1234 (ans. svc.)/fax (212) 722-8351
6 years in operation.
10-12 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted by interview.
By sessions (first and second year training).
Meisner technique is a way of working and learning its craft of acting; can be applied to stage, film, and television.
JOHN CHARLES MURPHY
2272 Broadway, #2A
New York, NY 10024
(212) 501-2357
Over 20 years in operation.
12 students average per class.
All levels.
By sessions.
Movement-based training developed from classical and contemporary approaches. Joins the work of Stansislavsky, Michael Chekhov, and Jacques Lecoq, where imagination and inner awareness express themselves in spontaneous physical choices.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
NATIONAL THEATER
INSTITUTE
305 Great Neck Rd.
Waterford, CT 06385
(860) 443-7139/fax (860) 443-9653
Website: www.conncoll.edu/nti
Email: ntiadmit@conncoll.edu
30 years in operation (since 1970).
Maximum of 32 students per semester.
Intermediate level.
By session (semester).
NTI is a semester long theatre intensive open to college-age students seeking a conservatory based training to compliment a theatre arts or liberal arts education.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
NATIONAL THEATRE WORKSHOP OF THE HANDICAPPED
354 Broome St., Loft 5F
New York, NY 10013
(212) 941-9511/fax (212) 941-9486
Email: ntwh@aol.com
23 years in operation.
15 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Specialize in training for persons with disabilities.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
NEIGHBORHOOD
PLAYHOUSE SCHOOL OF THE THEATRE
340 E. 54 St.
New York, NY 10022
(212) 688-3770/fax (212) 906-9051
Website: www.the-neiplay.org
Email: hgb340@aol.com
73 years in operation.
26 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Meisner technique - 2 year full-time program - 18 years and up. Special Saturday junior school, 9am - 2pm - 8 years to 17 years acting/movement/voice.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
NEIGHBORHOOD
PLAYHOUSE
SATURDAY JUNIOR SCHOOL
340 E. 54 St.
New York, NY 10022
(212) 688-3770/fax (212) 906-9051
Website: www.the-neiplay.org
In operation since 1928.
Ages 8-17.
Saturdays 9AM-2PM.
Acting, singing, and dance.
Acting School Category: Children/Teens
EVELYN NEINKEN
Founder/pioneer of "Stanislavsky One-Step More," drama not trauma for spontaneity and beyond the Method.
(212) 473-0392
20 years teaching and directing experience.
Private coaching and group classes.
Beginners, advanced, and professionals. Teaches at Wings Theatre.
Ongoing and by sessions.
Stanislavsky plus one step more: "Drama—No Trauma." For spontaneity and to go beyond the method, and be successful. Don't use your own personal conflicts. Separate the role from yourself and get into the role of the playwright. Losing stage fright.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose; Children/Teens
RUTH NERKEN
Technique for the Whole Actor
259 W. 30 St., 2nd fl.
New York, NY 10001
(212) 362-5277
10 years teaching experience.
12 students average per class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Taking risks and breaking habits. Integrates voice, movement, emotional work and script analysis into acting and auditioning.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
THE NEW ACTORS
WORKSHOP
Founded by George Morrison, Mike Nichols, and Paul Sills
259 W. 30 St., 2nd fl.
New York, NY 10001
(212) 947-1310/fax (212) 947-9729
Website: www.newactorswork shop.com
Email: newactorsw@aol.com
12 years in operation.
14-16 students average per class.
Six-week evening program (fall & spring sessions), and three-week summer sessions (July & August).
Auditing is not permitted.
Two-year, full-time training program. Each with dual focus on improvisation and Stanislvsky-based method technique.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
NEW ENGLAND ACTORS
THEATRE
160 Little Meadow Road
Guilford, CT 06437-2024
(203) 458-7671
Website: www.neatct.org
7 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing permitted in some classes.
Classes are by sessions and ongoing.
Professional faculty with stage, film and TV experience - regional and international.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY
100 E. 17 St.
New York, NY 10003
(212) 674-4300/fax (212) 477-1414
Website: www.nyfa.com
Email: film@nyfa.com
7 years in operation.
16 students average per class (enrollment limited).
Basic and advanced levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Eight-, six-, and four-week workshops in NYC and at Universal Studios in LA. 12-week and advanced directing and evening workshop available. New "total immersion" workshops starting on the first Monday of every month, all year round. Advanced and evening workshops starting every other month. Special summer workshops available at Princeton University, Yale University, Harvard Faculty Club, American University of Paris, and Cambridge University. Intensive, hands-on filmmaking workshops in which students write, direct, shoot, and edit their own short 16mm films using professional Arriflex cameras.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
NEW YORK PERFORMANCE ALLIANCE
85 West Broadway (at 128 Chambers St.)
New York, NY 10007
(212) 566-1500
8 years in operation.
12 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing and by sessions.
Emphasis on performance/respect.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
DIANE NICOLE
Director of the Center for Contemporary Culture
West Side Y
5 W. 63 St.
New York, NY 10023
(212) 875-4110/fax (212) 875-4184
5 years in operation/professional staff with years of experience.
8-10 students average per class.
All levels—beginners to professionals.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Shakespeare, musical theatre, scene study, Acting I-II, screenwriting.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
OASIS THEATRE COMPANY, INC.
PO Box 1153, Madison Sq. Station
New York, NY 10159
(212) 307-7014
10 years in operation.
5-10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Focus is on classical and modern classics; Shakespeare, Moliere, Shaw, Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard, etc. Focus on text and character development.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
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Duffy Theater
1553 Broadway, 3rd fl.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 840-3257/fax (212) 921-7928
Email: postarvis@aol.com
15 years in operation.
7-10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted. First class is free, and you participate fully.
On camera work on cold readings of monologue and scenes; three-hour classses, each student works twice every class.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ON CAMERA...and off, INC.
Larry Conroy
42 W. 13 St.
New York, NY 10011-7922
(212) 741-1444/fax (212) 366-5688
Email: oncamoff@aol.com
16 years in operation.
Private one-on-one coaching.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is not permitted. N/C evaluation offered.
Ongoing.
Meisner based techniques developed by my work/methods with individual student/clients.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
ONE ON ONE PRODUCTIONS
c/o Bob Krakower
126 W. 23 St.
New York, NY 10011
(212) 691-6000
7 years in operation.
14 students average per class.
Intermediate and Advanced classes.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
On-camera audition classes with Marci Phillips, Manager ABC Primetime, and Eve Battaglia, Casting Director. On-camera scene work with independent filmmakers/ directors. Uses film & TV scripts for on-camera audition.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
BRUCE ORNSTEIN
(212) 802-4955
Email: actingclass@aol.com
7 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Scene study, exercise work, improvs - all leading toward overall artistic growth.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
PAN ASIAN REPERTORY
(212) 505-5655
21 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
By sessions.
Offer workshops that vary year-to-year: Young Artists Forum—Creative Workshop for Teens, Oct. 7-Nov. 25, Ernest Abuba, dir.; Chinese Theatre Techniques, Sept. 26-Dec. 12, Lu Yu, dir. Call for information.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
ROBERT PATTERSON STUDIO
170 W. 74 St.
New York, NY 10023
(212) 840-1234/fax: (212) 595-3785
27 years teaching experience.
8-10 students per class.
Beginner level.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
2-year program, 10 months a year- classical by nature.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
PERFORMANCE
OF A LIFETIME
588 Broadway, Suite 403
New York, NY 10012
(212) 343-2884/fax (212) 219-1989
Email: info@performanceofalife time.com
Website: www.performanceofalife time.com
4 years in operation.
10 average students per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
The joy and universality of performance.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv; Acting Technique; also has acting and performance for non-actors.
MICHAEL PERRECA
(212) 714-4669
Classes currently held on Mondays, 7-10PM, winter, spring, and fall sessions
at Michael Carson Studios, 250 W. 54 St., 10th fl., NYC.
4 years in operation.
Intermediate and advanced.
Auditing permitted.
Audition and performance class that combines work on songs and monologues. Alternates weeks working on songs and monologues, to brush up on students' overall audition techniques, for both actors and singers.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
TODD PETERS
345 W. 85 St.
New York, NY 10024
(212) 873-5836
14 years in operation.
Private coaching only.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
The focus is on personalization & characterization for all kinds of material.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
LENARD PETIT: MICHAEL CHEKHOV ACTING STUDIO
PO Box 20168
West Village Station
New York, NY 10014
(212) 802-8350/fax (718) 858-2498
Email: meglenium@earthlink.net
10 years teaching experience.
10 students limit per class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Overview and practical application of Michael Chekhov technique.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique/Monologue/Audition/Coaching
DARCI PICOULT AND LOUIS SCHEEDER
(212) 614-9131
10 years teaching experience.
15 students average per class; private coaching.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Sessions start every 10 weeks.
Classical and contemporary scene work and monologues.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
JACK POGGI
MONOLOGUE COACH
880 W. 181 St., Apt. 4B
New York, NY 10033
(212) 928-6882
Service: (212) 382-3535
30 years teaching experience.
5 students average per class.
Intermediate/advanced in monologue workshops; all levels privately.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions for workshops. Ongoing for private coaching.
Emphasis on finding, rehearsing, and performing monologues for auditions. Author of "The Monologue Workshop."
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
JANIS POWELL
223 W. 14 St., #1A
New York, NY 10011
(212) 675-0719
25 years in operation.
8-14 students average per class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Beginner's sessions by appointment.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Available for private coaching.
Scene study and monologue work, including Meisner/Hagen exercises. Interview and audition required.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
SCOTT POWERS
PRODUCTIONS, INC.
150 5th Ave., Suite 623
New York, NY 10011
(212) 242-4700
Email: getworking@scottpowers.com
Website: www.scottpowers.com
12 years in operation.
6-10 students per class; also individ ual one-on-one consultations.
All levels.
Sample class days offered.
Overriding goal is to prepare the committed actor to obtain professional work in the industry. Curriculum includes professional-level training in on-camera commercials, soap, film, commercial print, and corporate video. Agents and casting directors showcases.
Acting School Category: On Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
CAROL FOX PRESCOTT:
ACTING CLASSES
The Basement Space
102 W. 75 St.
New York, NY 10023
(212) 501-7776/fax (914) 679-6707
Email: CFPrescott@aol.com
Over 20 years teaching experience.
12-18 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing (by participation) is encouraged.
Ongoing.
Special emphasis on developing and maintaining a solid acting technique, which serves for stage, film, and TV. Additional workshops in improv and musical theatre offered.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv; Acting Technique; Multipurpose
PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL
Kim Bruno, Asst. Principal
328 W. 48 St.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 247-8652/fax (212) 247-7514
Email: mgc@mail.con2.com
8 years in operation.
20 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
PPAS has a partnership with The Actors Institute. All of our drama classes are taught by Actors Institute instructors.
(See Actors Institute listing for description.)
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
PULSE ENSEMBLE THEATRE
432 W. 42 St.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 695-1596
10 years in operation. Professional acting school.
10 students average per class.
Monologue coaching group or individual.
All levels.
Participatory auditing is permitted.
Ongoing and by sessions.
Emphasis on building a character based on the Stanislavsky technique. Work with contemporary and classical, prose, and verse.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
LOIS RAEBECK
(718) 624-8145
Over 25 years of teaching experience.
Private coaching only.
Intermediate and advanced students, or beginners with some previous training.
No auditing permitted, but free interview.
Now focusing on alleviating stage fright and difficulty memorizing for actors.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
REV THEATRE COMPANY
302 W. 51 St., #4D
New York, NY 10019
(212) 581-5377
12-14 students maximum.
Shakespeare Foundation class for beginners; Monologue Intensive for intermediate students; Shakespeare Lab for intermediate and advanced actors.
Auditing is permitted.
10-12 week sessions, except for Lab, which is on-going throughout the year.
Interview and audition required.
Focus on classical training: Shakespeare Foundation class, Monologue Intensive, Shakespeare Lab.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
CAROL REYNOLDS
BODY DYNAMICS™ CLASSES
(212) 288-8380
Over 25 years teaching.
10-18 students per class.
Basic course and ongoing workshop.
Auditing permitted in basic course.
Reynolds is founder/director of Body Dynamics™ —quintessential movement for actors.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
KYMBERLY HARRIS RIGGS
105 North Seventh, #4
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(917) 781-1263/fax (718) 388-8446—call first
Website: www.bway.net/~fresh
10 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
A "good" monologue is gold: Each audition will be revelation of yourself as artsist and human being. I will choose a monolgue for you and help you make it your own, so you can freely express your creative instincts and get the job.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ACTING TRAINING WITH KATHRYN ROSSETTER
325 W. 45 St., # 207
New York, NY 10036
(212) 946-5135/fax (212) 262-6612
Email: NYKass@aol.com
5 years in operation.
10 students per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Private coaching available.
Classes consist of technique and scene study combining Meisner and Strasberg. Students receive intense individual attention preparing them for work in all areas of theatre, film & TV. Also a specialist in teaching stand-up comics to act.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv; Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Multipurpose
DESERRIE RUPTASH
Certified Body Dynamics Instructor
(212) 665-1388
6-8 students.
All levels.
12-week introductory class, ongoing and individual sessions.
Process-oriented body work technique for identification and release of muscular tension.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
CATHERINE RUSSELL
(212) 532-7268
20 years teaching experience.
Private coaching onstage and on camera.
All levels.
Emphasis on text, cold readings, monologues, and audition preparation.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
LUCILLE SAINT-PETER
(212) 877-9540
30 years teaching experience.
Limited to 12 students.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Includes exercises, improvisations, and poetry to show how language and the subtext work together to help actors express their actions and objectives with simplicity, clarity, and honesty.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
SARATOGA INTERNATIONAL THEATER INSTITUTE (The Siti Company)
PO Box 1922
Old Chelsea Station
New York, NY 10011
Phone/fax: (212) 477-1469/fax (212) 477-0564
Email: inbox@siti.org
Website: www.siti.org
8 years in operation.
20 students average per class.
Beginning and intermediate levels.
Auditing is permitted by arrangement.
Classes are by sessions.
Suzuki method of actor training and viewpoints.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Multipurpose
SCHOOL FOR FILM AND
TELEVISION AT THREE OF US STUDIOS
39 W. 19 St., 12th fl.
New York, NY 10011
(212) 645-0030/fax (212) 645-0039
Email: info@filmandtelevision.com
Website: www.filmandtelevision.com
20 years in operation.
10-12 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted, by interview.
By sessions.
SFT is an accredited conservatory school with a large offering of part-time courses and a two-year Meisner program.
Film and TV techniques, on-camera commercials, voice-overs, auditions, image, basic and advanced acting, voice and speech. Accredited by National Association Schools of Theatre. College credits. Performance Fundamentals Certificate; Film Fundamentals Certificate. 2-year Meisner program for film and television. Financial aid available to those who qualify.
Acting School Category: On Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
T. SCHREIBER STUDIO
151 W. 26 St., 7th fl.
New York, NY 10001
(212) 741-0209/fax (212) 741-0948
Email: info@t-s-s.org
Website: t-s-s.org
32 years in operation.
18 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions and ongoing.
Variety of classes offered in acting technique, vocal production, acting for the camera, (ensemble) acting, body dynamics, auditioning, playwriting, plus an annual season of full-scale productions showcasing current student/alumni.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
THE SECOND CITY TRAINING CENTER
1616 N. Wells
Chicago, IL 60614
(877) 2ND-CITY/fax (312) 664-9837
Website: www.secondcity.com
40 years in operation.
17 students averager per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Improv, acting, and comedy writing taught in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Detroit.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
JACQUELINE SEGAL
88 Lexington Ave., PH G
New York, NY 10016
(212) 683-9428
Private coaching & classes.
14 years experience.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing not permitted.
Ongoing.
Basic techniques/scene study - creating truthfulness on stage.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
LAURA SEGAL/
THE TARA STUDIO
83 Leonard St., 4th fl
New York, NY 10013
(212) 966-1997
Email: Tarastudio@aol.com
23 years experience.
8-12 students per class.
All levels.
No auditing permitted.
By sessions.
A comprehensive course in movement for the theatre; dance, mime, mask, physical comedy, commedia dell'arte, and improvisation.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
LEDDY SERRA
(212) 243-3589/fax (212) 903-7945
Current professor at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, NY.
25 plus years experience.
12 students average per class.
All levels.
No auditing permitted.
Private coaching is ongoing.
Basic technique and coaching; characterization, classical and contemporary, script analysis.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
78TH STREET THEATRE LAB
General Information (212) 873-9050
Mark Zeller and Dana Zeller-Alexis (212) 362-1736
236 W. 78 St.
New York, NY 10024
25 years teaching experience.
10 students average per class.
Serious actors of all levels.
Interview/audition.
Ongoing.
Development lab, classes, and productions.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY
70 Kemble St.
Lenox, MA 01240
(413) 637-1199 ext. 114/fax (413) 637-4274
Email: training@shakespeare.org
Website: www.shakespeare.org
23 years in operation.
Average number of students in class: 60 per month-long intensive/12 per weekend intensive.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing may be permitted.
By sessions.
Shakespeare.
Participants immerse themselves in our training aesthetic; text analysis, voice, movement, Elizabethan dance, Alexander Technique, stage combat, exploration of the actor/audience relationship, sonnet work, scene work, Linklater voice work, and Tina Packer's "Dropping In."
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
SHAKESPEARE LAB PROJECT
435 W. 48th St., #3
New York, NY 10019
(212) 265-4832
website: www.angelfire.com/ny/shakespearelabprojec/mission.html
1 year in operation.
20 students in class.
All levels.
Ongoing classes.
The Shakespeare Lab Project is an ongoing weekly workshop for actors of all levels of training and experience. The Lab allows actors to participate in a group warm-up (Tai-Chi, yoga, Alexander, and vocal work, followed by exercises and intense work of verse material for their monologues and scenes. The language and the text exercises are an integral part of the process designed to access the actors' imaginations for a deeper physical and emotional response to the text. Special sessions include work on scansion, prose technique, sonnets, and classical audition technique. Participants can also choose particular topics that they wish to focus on.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
JUDITH SHAKESPEARE
COMPANY
"SHAKESPEARE WORKSHOP"
Joanne Zipay, founder and artistic dir.
PO Box 60, Times Square Station,
New York, NY 10036
(212) 592-1885
5 years class as structured; 20 years teaching experience.
14 students average per class.
Beginners and intermediate.
Auditing is permitted.
Taught by Joanne Zipay. Shakespeare acting technique based in the text. Bridging the worlds of contemporary and classical acting. Inexpensive. (Individual coaching available.)
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
BARRY SHAPIRO
24 W. 25 St.
New York, NY 10010
(212) 807-7706/fax (212) 989-7734
17 years teaching experience.
Private coaching only.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
LYNETTE SHELDON ACTORS STUDIO
309 E. 5th St., #25
New York, NY 10003
(212) 477-0171/fax (212) 477-0171
12 years in operation.
16 students average per class.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions and ongoing.
Professional technique and scene study classes for all levels—Stanislavski, Stella Adler, and improv techniques. Private audition coaching/career planning and weekend audition intensives. The studio's purpose is to develop highly skilled professional working actors. Actors who succeed in their art and their careers. Scene study, technique, script analysis, character development, relaxation, and breathwork, coaching/ weekend audition intensives—career development on how to nail the job. Training for film, theatre, and television.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Comedy/Improv, Teens; Multipurpose
SUZANNE SHEPHERD
225 W. 86 St.
New York, NY 10024
(212) 873-5324/fax (917) 441-0139
26 years teaching experience.
20 students average per class.
Advanced level.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
An advanced class focusing on how to work on a text and to inhabit a character.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
SANDE SHURIN
311 W. 43 St., Ste. 602
New York, NY 10036
Or:
Box 644
Woodstock, NY 12498
(212) 262-6848/fax (212) 262-6849
Email: shurinacting@hotmail.com
21 years in operation.
Private class.
Advanced level (professionals).
Private sessions.
Sande Shurin private coaches professionasl, advanced actors, and celebrities for monologues and auditions. Also on script during shooting rehearsals and performances.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
SANDE SHURIN ACTING
STUDIO & THEATRE
311 W. 43 St., Ste. 602
New York, NY 10036
(212) 262-6848/fax (212) 262-6849
Email: shurinacting@hotmail.com
18 years in operation.
20 years in operation.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is permitted. Private coaching available.
Ongoing.
Transformational acting, developed by Miss Shurin, uncovers and uses the actor's emotional body rather than relying on emotional recall. It also focuses on utilizing the actor's unique self to transform into character.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
LARRY SILVERBERG
The Meisner Training Program
At The School For Film and Television
39 W. 19 St., 12th fl.
New York, NY 10011
13 years in operation.
24 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted at open class session only.
By session (one six-week in summer and the nine-month program which begins each September).
This is a most rigorous, demanding, and profoundly rewarding process. The Meisner work, taught by a world-leading proponent, Larry Silverberg, author of the internationally acclaimed series of books "The Sanford Meisner Approach," "An Actors Workbook."
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
THE SIMON STUDIO
1501 Broadway, Suite 1603
New York, NY 100236
(212) 704-0488
or (212) 841-0204/fax (212) 543-0286
Website: www.simonstudio.com
21 years in operation.
8-15 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Classics and Shakespeare mixed with contemporary; actors with directors, writers, agents, and industry guests. Training with performance opportunity. Private coaching & group professional lab classes on-camera with Roger Hendricks Simon, dir., (NY Shakespeare Fstival, Royal Court Theatre, and Yale Rep), scene study/monologues, audition technique, cold reading, voice, improv, movement, stage combat, commercial/voice-over technique.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
BARBARA SINCLAIR
Acting Teacher/Private Coach
(212) 316-3024-private
Teaches focus-internal process that stresses individuality.
26 years teaching experience.
Combined scene study with private business training.
Original monologues for students written by 7th week.
Ongoing classes meet twice a week in Midtown location.
Students may take advantage of discount for eight-week package.
Auditing is permitted.
Seeking primarily college-trained or union actors.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
LYNN SINGER'S VOICEWORKS
201 W. 16 St.
New York, NY 10011
(212) 242-3297
Email: LGSVoice@prodigy.net
25 years teaching experience.
15 students per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
Acting and voice classes, technique, and scene study. Stanislavsky-based. Body work "informs" the class. Formerly at Yale and Circle in the Square. Presently on staff at T. Schreiber Studio. Private classes and coaching available.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
SINGERS ON STAGE
Bill Reed, Artistic Director
Cherilyn Bacon, Managing Director
200 W. 70th St.
New York, NY 10023
(212) 802-8708
(800) 888-SING-NYC (888-746-4692)
fax: (203) 966-2956
email: Bill@singersonstage.com
Cher@singersonstage.com
website: http://www.singersonstage.com
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
SUSAN SLAVIN ACTORS & SINGERS ACADEMY
119 W. 57 St.
New York, NY 10019
(212) 582-0321
18 years in operation.
10-20 students average per class.
All levels.
Individual curriculum, from one class to full-time program.
Complimentary interview.
Ongoing.
Innovative acting and musical performing techniques; business-related guidance; professional showcases.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
JACQUELINE SOLOTAR
(212) 595-3039
Over 20 years teaching experience.
Private coaching.
Class: 10 students average.
All levels.
Acting technique and scene study. Monologues, auditions. Call for interview.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
TOM SOTER
WINGNUT COMEDY STUDIO
1264 Amsterdam Ave., 3B
New York, NY 10027
Phone/fax: (212) 316-4916
Email: tsoter@tuna.net
Website: tomsoter.com
17 years improv experience.
5-15 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing and by sessions.
Variety of classes: musical performance, improv, narrative, and scene class.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
DEANNA SORENSON
411 E. 53 St.
New York, NY 10022
(212) 759-7619
8 years teaching/coaching experience.
Private coaching.
All levels: beginners to technically superb professionals.
Ongoing.
Lee Strasberg, the genius himself, taught me for 9-1/2 years in his private classes beginning in 1958. His teachings/technique are what I have to pass on to you: sense memory, affective memory, private moments, improv, etc.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
BARBARA SPIEGEL THEATRE WORKSHOPS
534 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10022
(212) 688-0945
20 years privately, 18 years at The New School.
Private coaching.
All levels.
All areas and methods, as well as classical and contemporary are covered. There will be sessions of group classes taught periodically.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ALICE SPIVAK
c/o Three of Us Studios
39 W. 19 St.
New York, NY 10011
(212) 924-0561
30 plus years teaching experience.
22 students average per class.
Advanced students only.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions. Teaches only in the fall and winter.
Stanislavsky technique; scene study.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
STAGEWRIGHTS INC.
John Albanese, Workshop Coordinator
(212) 642-6611
14 years in operation.
8 writers and 15 actors average per class.
All levels.
By sessions: 10-week session running February through April.
Developing the craft of playwriting through new material.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
THE STAND-UP COMEDY EXPERIENCE
1600 Broadway, Ste. 614
New York, NY 10019
(212) 247-5555/fax (212) 247-5568
Website: www.comedyinstitute.com
12 years in operation.
16 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions and ongoing.
Monthly sessions.
How to create and perform own stand-up comedy material, taught by Steven Rosenfield; workshops conclude with performance at Caroline's; how to prepare for jobs in television, film, clubs, and theatre; commercial classes available.
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv
JEFFREY D. STOCKER
90 Lexington Ave., Suite 1H
New York, NY 10016
(212) 725-3437
23 years teaching experience.
6 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing and by sessions.
Soap opera, night-time TV series, sitcom, motion picture-commercial copy or request.
Acting School Category: On Camera (TV/Film/Commercial)
MICHAEL STORCK
PO Box 657
New York, NY 10101
(212) 982-9091
12 years teaching experience.
8 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is sometimes permitted.
Ten-session class; private coaching.
Film acting with emphasis on shooting a complete scene.
Acting School Category: On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial)
CHRIS STRANG
69-27 76 St.
Middle Village, NY 11379
(718) 326-7858
15 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Emphasis on method acting.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
JOHN STRASBERG
An International Center
For Theater Arts Research
and Creative Development
666 West End Ave., #20 F
New York, NY 10025-7357
Phone/fax: (212) 721-5809
Email: jcsstudios@aol.com
37 years in operation.
12-14 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted after interview.
By sessions.
Video camera in some classes. 10-20 week semesters; each focuses on a particular aspect that develops an individual, personalized, organic creative process in which technique is integrated directly within scene study: special topic, period of history, acting problem, Law of Creativity, playwright, or group of playwrights. Next semester begins Feb. 12.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
LEE STRASBERG INSTITUTE
115 E. 15 St.
New York, NY 10003
(212) 533-5500/fax: (212) 473-1727
Email: TLSTINY@aol.com
Website: www.strasberg.com
31 years in operation.
20 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Introductory, part-time, and full-time programs grounded in Lee Strasberg method.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
TADA!
120 W. 28 St., 2nd fl.
New York, NY 10001
(212) 627-1732/fax (212) 243-6736
Website: www.tadatheater.com
16 years in operation.
20-25 students average per class.
All levels.
Classes range from 10-week to full-year.
Auditing is not permitted.
Training for children, ages 5-17, in musical theatre and drama. Financial aid available. Classes divided by grade level.
Acting School Category: Children/Teens
MARC TASLIT
800-806-7372 (toll-free) /fax (727) 786-0650
Email: marctaslit@earthlink.net
Websites:
www.actingopera.com
www.memorymasters.com
www.presentaction.com
10 years in operation
Average of 10 students per class.
Intermediate and Advanced students only.
Auditing is not permitted.
By Sessions. Weekend Intensives in NY offered periodically throughout the season. Next one: Nov. 18-19
Special emphasis: Singer-Actors; opera & musical theatre; includes techniques training in the following: text memorization, cold reading, audition preparation, monologue preparation and on-camera. Training approach is post-Sanford Meisner/ Charles Conrad. The training is non-Method and not personally invasive.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
PENNY TEMPLETON STUDIO
261 W. 35 St., Suite 304
New York, NY 10001
(212) 643-2614 (also fax no.)
Email: PTIMEMA@aol.com
Website: pennytempletonstudio.com
8 years in operation.
Private coaching and classes.
15 students average per class.
Intermediate and advanced.
Auditing is not permitted.
All levels.
Ongoing and by sessions.
Advanced On-Camera Technique for the advanced professional (by invitation only) (8 weeks): work on film, prime time, and soap opera audition scenes in a "screen test" environment. This class is taught by two teachers, Ms. Templeton works on enhancing and deepening the acting work and Hank Schob teaches the technical aspects of working for the camera. Scenes are played back on a large 10' movie screen. Maximum 16 students. Basic On-Camera/Soap Opera Technique (6 weeks): learn Ms. Templeton's unique approach breaking down scripts and make dynamic choices plus all aspects of on-camera technique. For the beginning/intermediate actor. Maximum 12 students. On-Going Acting Technique/Scene Study: intermediate, advanced and professional master classes (by invitation). Each class includes Ms. Templeton's "Acting Barre" and other exercises including on-camera, followed by scene study.
Learn the techniques necessary for theatre, film, prime time, and soap opera. Every actor works at least twice in each class.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
DEBORAH JEAN TEMPLIN
c/o Ron Schwinn
104 Perry St.
New York, NY 10014
(212) 642-8366
Email: djtemplin@hotmail.com
Website: www.susqu.edu\templin
27 years teaching experience.
Private coaching.
Taught at Susquehanna University, PA. Currently on national tour of Titanic. Served on faculty of The School for Film and Television at Three of Us Studios and Cornell University. Audition preparation, on-camera technique; interview skills; for film, TV, and CD-ROM.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
THEATRE NEXT DOOR
Jim Cowen, dir.
98-11 Queens Blvd. (basement studio)
Forest Hills, NY 11375
(718) 830-0265/fax (718) 275-2061
12 years in operation.
33 years private teaching.
12 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Technique, monologues, scene study with Hagen/Berghof/Meisner approach. Emphasis is on truly doing, listening, accessing fellow actors while developing fluency, spontaneity, and believeability. Audition coaching and on camera available for actors. In-house repertory theatre. Also coach singers with acting for vocal freedom; musical accompaniment available for singers.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
TSI /ACTIVE WORK-STUDY
THE THEATRE-STUDIO, INC.
750 8th Ave., Suite 200
New York, NY 10036
(212) 719-0500
Instructors: A.M. Raychel, Jason Grant
Founded in 1980.
Limited to 15 students per three-hour session.
Call for interview.
Scene study provided concurrent with professional performance opportunity every eight weeks, year-round. Reading technique; rehearsal technique; performance technique on Monday or Tuesday or Thursday evenings. Send resume to TSI/Workstudy Program; 750 Eighth Ave., Ste. 200, NYC 10036 or call for appointment (212) 719-0500.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose; Acting Technique
THE THEATRE WITHIN
Alec Rubin, dir.
247 W. 72nd St., #4RW
New York, NY 10023
(212) 724-7508
25 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
Intermediate and advanced levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing classes.
Creative process integrating Strasberg, Meisner, Grotowski, and primal emotional release work.
Conducted by director, master-teacher, and therapist, Alec Rubin. Strongly emphasizes emotional and physical freedom; exercises that enhance sensory and physical awareness and consciousness. Voice and movement. Monologues and scenes.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
CAROLINE THOMAS'
TOTAL THEATRE LAB
Office: 118 W. 79 St., Suite 12A
New York, NY 10024
(212) 799-4224
Email: cttheatre@aol.com
15 years teaching experience.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Ongoing; private and group classes.
Total Theatre Lab develops the actors/student's unique personal style from beginning acting through performances in showcases.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
PETER THOMPSON
(212) 736-0876
20 years teaching experience.
Private coaching; 20 students average per class.
All levels.
Ongoing.
Primarily scene study; private coaching for auditions or work on particular roles.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
STEVE THORNBURG
SAGE THEATRE INSTITUTE at RAW SPACE
529 W. 42nd. St.
New York, NY 10036
(212) 929-3423
Email: CALTHOR@prodigy.net
Website: www.thorburg.org
16 years in operation.
15 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Classical, contemporary, new unpublished text "Tao of Acting."
Acting School Category: Comedy/Improv; On-Camera (Film/TV/Commercial); Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Children/Teens; Multipurpose
PATRICIA WING TOBIAS
Director, Casting Director for Manhattan Playhouse
305 E. 86 St., # 5P West
New York, NY 10028-4703
(212) 289-4322/fax (212) 996-3338
15 years teaching experience.
One-on-one coaching.
Auditing is not permitted.
All levels.
Ongoing.
Helps students find monologues, both classical and contemporary.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
MIKHAIL TSOGLIN
1465 E. 45 St.
Brooklyn, NY 11234
(212) 410-7236
20 years teaching experience.
8 students average per class; private coaching.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Stanislavsky system.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
PAULINE TURLEY
Irish Arts Center
553 West 51st St.
New York, NY 10019
8 students average per class.
(212) 757-3318/fax (212) 247-0930
25 years in operation.
5 or one-on-one average number of students.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Masterclasses in Acting for Camera, Dialect Coaching, and Screen Writing. Classes are taught in 6-week semesters.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
TURTLE BAY MUSIC SCHOOL
244 E. 52 St.
New York, NY 10022
(212) 753-8811
Private and group instruction.
Ongoing registration.
McClosky technique for voice rehabilitation, Alexander technique for body alignment. Musical theatre, cabaret, sight-singing, and dramatic skills for opera singers.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
OLINDA TURTURRO
(212) 473-1701
11 years teaching experience.
Private coaching and classes with 4-6 students only.
All levels.
One working audit is permitted.
Ongoing (one-month commitment). New class sessions begin Sept. 12.
Meisner technique-oriented Monologues, cold readings, and audition technique. Call for telephone interview. On staff of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Acting School Technique: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
TVI ACTORS STUDIO
Actors' Equity Building
165 W. 46 St., Suite 509
New York, NY 10036
(212) 302-1900/fax (212) 302-1926
13 years in operation.
16 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted on some classes.
By sessions and ongoing.
Techniques in the realities of auditioning for theatre, TV, film, commercials, VO's, and musical theatre.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
29TH STREET REP PROFESSIONAL ACTOR TRAINING PROGRAM
212 W. 29th St.
New York, NY 10011
(212) 712-8712/fax (212) 465-0575
Website: www.29thstreetrep.com
12 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
Beginners.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
Contemporary acting technique taught with special emphasis on truthful, realistic work. Focus is toward film acting. Improvisation, scene study, monologues are all covered in this program which culminates with actors performing in a showcase production.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
THOMAS VASILIADES
(212) 726-1569
Currently on faculty, teaching at The Juilliard School, Actors Studio MFA Program, and NYU. Former chair and president of the American Center for the Alexander Technique.
5 years teaching experience.
Private lessons and group classes.
6-10 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is permitted.
By sessions.
Performers can meet the vocal, physical, and emotional demands with greater ease. Freedom in movement, improved breathing, better vocal production.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
KIMBERLY VAUGHN
Teacher, dir., B'way prod'r.
(212) 929-0805
13 years teaching experience.
Private coaching for stage, film/TV, and cabaret.
Musical performance audition classes for intermediate and advanced levels.
Audits welcome.
Ongoing.
Workshops with widely known industry casting directors, and agents. Clients work on Broadway, in national tours, and film/TV.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching; Multipurpose
JACK WALTZER ACTING
WORKSHOPS
5 Minetta St., Apt. 2B
New York, NY 10012
(212) 473-7056
(212) 840-1234
33 years teaching experience.
Private coaching.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
Private coaching for specific roles; technical training; auditions for film, TV, theatre; script breakdown; cold readings.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
THE WARD STUDIO
145 W. 28th St., 8F
New York, NY 10001
(212) 239-1456
Website: www.wardstudio.com
18 years teaching experience.
12 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
The Ward Studio is an actor training program specializing in the Meisner approach. We also offer a very popular Career Coaching workshop which helps actors identify and execute smarter strategies for building and sustaining their careers. (Classes in movement and voice are also part of the curriculum.)
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
"WAY-OFF BROADWAY"
THEATER SCHOOL
95 Christopher St., Ste. 6F
New York, NY 10014
(212) 741-1682/(516) 741-1682
Fax: (212) 242-3043
15 years in operation.
10 students average per class.
Beginners and intermediate.
Auditing is permitted.
Ongoing.
All styles.
Acting School Category: Children/Teens
BILL WENDT
115 MacDougal St.
New York, NY 10012
(212) 982-4434
12 years teaching experience.
10 students average per class.
All levels.
Private sessions and coaching available.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
Sense memory, improv, scenes, monologue, on-camera (taping), and audition techniques.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
KAREN PORTER WHITE
410 E. 6 St., #16B
New York, NY 10009
(212) 252-2713/fax (212) 677-8134
Email: KPWSDT@aol.com
Four years in operation.
6-8 students average per class.
Auditing is not permitted.
All levels.
By sessions.
Michael Shurtleff's only authorized New York associate; teaching his 12 audition guideposts; suitable for all material for stage and screen.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
ARLYNN WILSON
(212) 802-7195
Email: arlynn@hotmail.com
Five years in operation.
One student average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
By sessions.
Dramatic and musical theatre actors work with Arlynn to find and prepare classic, comedic, and dramatic monologues, as well as songs and scenes. Arlynn is noted for finding students, the "perfect" audition piece and for charging very reasonable rates.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
FLORENCE WINSTON
(212) 541-7600
Over 20 years teaching experience.
Private coaching and in small groups.
All levels.
Ongoing.
Performances for public grow out of classes; contemporary and classical, dialects, building a repertoire; teaching style is a blend of Stanislavsky, Carnovsky, Meisner, and Stella Adler.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
LYNN WINTERS' STUDIO OF ACTING AND VOICE
154 Christopher St., Ste. 3B
New York, NY 10014
(212) 636-9829
20 years of teaching experience
15 students maximum per class
All levels
No audition needed.
"Winters" Acting Technique is a legit stage acting technique based on Stanislavski princples. Two year part-time program offered": acting intensive, scene study, and studio repertory classes I and II with a final performance showcase. One day workshops: acting audition workshop and music theatre audition workshop. Annual master singing class.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
WITCOVER ACTING STUDIO
40 W. 22 St.
New York, NY 10010
(212) 691-4367/fax (212) 989-7274
Website: www.gls.net/~witcover
40 plus years teaching experience.
2 students average per class.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
Structured supportive training, performance problems resolved, technique, monologues, scenes, and audition preparation.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique; Monologue/Audition/Coaching
CATHERINE WOLF
Private coaching and classes for professionals.
(212) 362-5332
30 years teaching experience.
Private coaching for professional actors for auditions.
Mixture of English and Meisner technique.
Also producing director of the Colleagues Theatre Company.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
MICHAEL WOODY
202 Riverside Dr., #6E
New York, NY 10025
(212) 749-5885
First year in operation.
20 students average per class.
Beginners and intermediate.
Auditing is not permitted.
Ongoing.
The Actors Studio via Milton Katselas, and the Beverly Hills Playhouse.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique.
THE WORKING ACTOR
New York Spaces
131 W. 72 St.
New York, NY 10023
(212 978-3654
Frederick Rolf & Roni Dengel, professional actor/directors.
Coaching 14 years.
10-12 students per workshop.
Ongoing. Afternoon sessions for those in B'way shows.
Private coaching available.
Auditing: Sample class offered.
Upper West Side studio where actors work out privately in order to keep working professionally. 3-hour weekly workshops include: in-depth character work, improvisational and verbal skills, physical relaxation and mental concentration exercises, emotional and sensory techniques, scene and monologue study, individual coaching for auditions. Seasonal showcase performances. Highly supportive atmosphere. Reasonable rates.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
ALAN WYNROTH
61 Morton St.
New York, NY 10014
(212) 675-9267 (also fax no.-call first)
Over 30 years teaching experience and directing.
All levels.
By session.
Individual attention to monologues and call-backs (cold reading or rehearsed); focus on specific personal choices in response to the spoken text.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
TATYANA ZBIROVSKAYA
"A Russian Method of Learning Drama"
Carnegie Hall
57th St. & Seventh Ave., Studio 95
New York, NY 10019
(212) 581-8163
email: transfixed@earthlink.net
Interview and audition are required. Individual instruction available.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
DAVID ZEMA ENTERPRISES, INC.
Voice of Success Programs
150 5th Ave.
New York, NY 10011
(212) 473-3898
12 years teaching experience.
12 students average per class.
All levels.
Ongoing.
Techniques include: audition, microphone, studio recording session, opening vocal range, and stylistic variety.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
STEWART J. ZULLY
(212) 288-2976
Private coaching.
From dedicated beginners through dedicated professionals.
Monologues, audition technique, the "business" of show business. Michael Chekhov based. Auditions are tough to come by, so when you get one...nail it. Call for brochure/information.
Acting School Category: Monologue/Audition/Coaching
TED ZURKOWSKI
Actors Studio member, artistic director of the Frog & Peach Theatre Co.
(212) 866-7280
10 years teaching experience.
10-15 students average per class.
All levels.
Ongoing.
Private and audition coaching available. Material from all periods including Shakespeare; uses an emphasis on the Actors Studio method.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
SCHOOLS IN THE U.K.
LONDON ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DRAMA (LAMDA)
Tower House
226 Cromwell Road
London SW5 O5R
England
011-44-207-373-9883/fax 011-44-207-370-4739
Website: www.lamda.org.uk
Email: enquiries@lamda.org.uk
In operation since 1863.
All levels.
Auditing is not permitted.
Three fundamental principles of LAMDA training: communality, as essential for the success of any collaborative enterprise; the recogniiton of a student's innate qualities in order to encourage rather than alter; and teaching through the classical texts.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique
MOUNTVIEW
CONSERVATOIRE FOR THE ARTS
The Admissions Officer
Ralph Richardson Memorial Studios
Kingfisher Place
Clarendon Road
Wood Green
London, N22 6XF
England
011-44-181-881-2201/fax 011-44-181-365-7635
Website: www.mountview.ac.uk
Email: enquiries@mountview.ac.uk
Programs as follows: 3 year BA (Hons) in Performance (Acting & Musical Theatre options); 2 year BA (Hons) in Technical Theatre; 1 year postgraduate courses in Acting; Musical Theatre; Technical Theatre and Directing. Apprenticeships and summer courses available. Contact Admissions Officer for full details including audition dates.
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
ROYAL ACADEMY OF
DRAMATIC ARTS (RADA)
62-64 Gower St.
London WC1E 7ED
England
011-44-20-7636-7076/fax 011-44-20-7323-3865
Acting School Category: Multipurpose
FRANCE
F.A.C.T.
65, Rue de Reuilly
75012 Paris
FRANCE
011-33-1-43-44-76-98 (also fax)
Email: annefact@aol.com
11 years in operation.
20 students average per class.
All levels.
By sessions and ongoing (enrollment allowed any time, if place available; year is organized into semesters).
Professional training in an intimate atmosphere with international scope. An integrated approach to the actor's creative process and professional potential—exercise, improvisation, monologue, scene, audition, and on-camera work. Ongoing classes and short-term workshops.
Acting School Category: Acting Technique