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About the Class You Audit
You will be auditing a Level I class. Playhouse West has
been training actors, directors, and writers in Los Angeles
for over twenty-five years. Our students have gone on to achieve
success at all levels of the Industry, from Academy Award
nominations to Golden Globe winners, from film producers to
the creation of television shows, from starring in motion
pictures and television to Emmy Awards for acting and writing,
to starring on Broadway.
Our classes are three hours in length and students who attend
Playhouse West come twice a week and work every class. Classes
are ongoing and can be entered into at any time during the
month.
Our program has been developed over years of working with
the finest teachers of acting in this country's history, including
Sanford Meisner, who taught here for years. But, while we
have worked with them, we are not imitators. We have our own
artistic vision and have developed an intense approach to
the training of an actor which includes year-round attendance
and ongoing classes. This process permits the actor to progress
from exercises, to scenes, to productions, to films. At Playhouse
West instruction is given on an individual basis and each
student moves at their own true learning pace.
In addition to the class work, Playhouse West students are
visited and given seminars by special guests like Academy
Award winning director Sydney Pollack, Academy Award winning
director and actor Mel Gibson, Academy Award winning actors
Martin Landau and Rod Steiger, Julie Harris, Tony Curtis,
Eli Wallach, James Caan, plus top-level writers, agents, managers,
casting directors and others. These guest seminars may occur
at the school, or at our annual Film Festival.
The students you will see have either just started their
training or may have been working with us for several months.
The exercises and scenes you will observe have at their root
two clear guidelines: (1) acting is more instinctive than
intellectual, and (2) it is vital for the actor to connect
with his working partner. These basic principles are emphasized
and trained into the actor in various ways. As the actor moves
through the program there is progressively more scene work,
accompanied by advanced exercises, culminating in “Scene
Nights”, and participation in the award-winning Playhouse
West theatrical productions and/or work in the many film projects
that use our acting company.
After you have observed a class it can be very inspiring
to attend one of our productions. The actors in our plays
are all currently training at Playhouse West and represent
classes from all levels. Please take a flyer with our monthly
schedule and call the reservation number, or go to our website,
to reserve a seat(s) for the play or plays of your choice.
You are eligible to see any of our productions for free. When
you call or go online for reservations simply state that you
are an auditor, and confirm it at the box office when you
arrive for the show.
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