Workshops Resources

Workshops

Workshops Resources

A Casting Workshop: Audition From Your Strengths

A Casting Workshop: Audition From Your Strengths Actor Improvisation Workshop Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Through an objective process, students discover three or four character types derived from their "look" and personal qualities. Then working on targeted material, actors learn to fulfill each character in order to present themselves as a complete, castable, acting package.

Actor Improvisation Workshop

Actor Improvisation Workshop Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Emphasis is on the actor rather than performer improvisation. Organic behavior and emotional truth are valued over cleverness. Teaches physical and vocal risk-taking, impulse work and a personal sense of truth. Numerous improv formats are motivated by both internal and external circumstances.

Dirty Acting

Dirty Acting Workshop - Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Int./Advanced - SB

14 Sundays 6:30 - 9:30 PM (Pacific)

Begins January 26th

Acting on impulse in the now!
Being compelled to respond from pure awareness, from intense looking and listening. Acting from necessity in the moment. Behavior that happens, not behavior that is planned – resulting in an alive, dynamic, electric performance.

The Actors Emotional Preparation

The Actors Emotional Preparation Workshop - Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Learning what do just before an entrance – how to make strong choices and internalize them right before a character enters. Based on the actor’s choices of intention and obstacle, the right emotional preparation carries the actor through the scene without any need for pushing or falsification.

Physical and Vocal Characterization

Physical and Vocal Adjustments

Adv. Beginner/Advanced - Online
8 Wednesdays 10 am–12:30 pm (Pacific)

Begins June 18th

Experiment with the body and voice of multiple characters, making smart vocal, physical, and speech choices. Connection between physical, vocal and emotional life is emphasized.

Acting With The Camera

Acting With The Camera Workshop - Los Angeles and Santa Barbara

Adv. Beginner/Advanced – SB

14 Thursdays, 12 Noon-2:30 pm

Begins January 30th
Framing, set terminology, playing opposite emotion, vulnerability in close-up – this is a thorough introduction for actors, both new to camera and cameras vets. A vital class to create consistently dynamic and surprising work on camera. Great for auditions, too!

Testimonials

"Most acting classes offer scene study and critique, but it is much more unusual to run into someone who is willing and able to guide the actor through several scenes from a feature-length script, with cameras, in order to create the experience of developing a character in a real film. This difference has clearly made a difference — at least if the performances I observed at Maravilla are any indications. The talent on display was noticeable, but even more impressive was the discipline, as well as the strong sense of an entire cast and crew working as a team. Come to think of it, the best analogy would be to an actual film set, which is, I suppose, the point."
Donelan
The SB Independent

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