Acting Classes in Chicago, IL

As an actor, technique is your calling card. Technique is the cornerstone of all great work. This class consists of transformational exercises that will accelerate your growth exponentially, helping you to reach your full potential as an artist and human being.  The roots of creativity are explored. We go to the source, the wellspring where it...

This is a ‘drop in’ class. This moment to moment class gets you present in behavior, word and action. By experiencing your partner, you discover yourself. This exercise will help you connect with your emotional life by being in the present with your partner. A must for any actor. ‘When you speak from the heart, everything you say is true.’

In this class, actors work on script interpretation and in depth character breakdown. Giving the actor the opportunity to explore material, the actor feels free to take risks and fill the demands of the material.

Learn a solid audition technique. You only get one shot to get it right! Practice the best written movie scenes on camera every week under the guidance of one of the best in the business. "I will individually coach you as you rehearse on camera."  You will have the opportunity to watch and review your work every week accompanied by a firm and...

The Commercials & Improvisation class provides a dynamic space for actors of all experience levels to dive into the thrills and fun of on-camera acting. A focus on improvisation helps students bring their work to life with personal flair and creative choices, while training with cue cards, props, slating, and other essential industry tools ensure...

Our Beginning Meisner Technique class, which meets online twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays, is for actors who are just starting out with their acting studies or looking to delve deeper into Meisner’s technique. This intensive class is an introduction to master instructor Sanford Meisner’s approach for developing a strong...

Anything Goes! has gone virtual! Virtual (dry) Happy Half Hour before and after the 6-8 pm workshop. Bring your talent and your work (new or old) for a 15-minute presentation and feedback from a group of professionals who work together for the better good of themselves and showbiz in general.

The “Acting As A Craft” (AAAC) workshops are uniquely designed master class workshops incorporating a broad range of basic skills that an actor absolutely needs. Students will be given scene assignments from various film and stage plays and then paired up to work that particular scene as a homework assignment which will then be performed at the...

The most powerful commercial class in New York.  An advanced 360° curriculum available nowhere else, designed to give you the in-depth solid foundation to maximize your success in commercials. In the first third of the course, you will be trained by top commercial Casting Director David Bellantoni of Beth Melsky Casting. The second third you...

This ongoing Vocal Production class with Page Clements meets once a week on Thursday evenings and introduces the actor to a range of physical exercises to strengthen breath control and support and relax the throat and upper body. The focus is to develop a stronger vocal tone, resonance, release of useless tension, and value of language. Through a...

The Accent Reduction online class is great for non-native English speakers and those who want to minimize a regional accent. This class helps the speaker become more understandable when working on a film set or stage. Maximize your communication skills in this fun, engaging class taught by award-winning instructor Page Clements.  The class uses...

For those who want to sustain a career in acting and gain a deeper understanding of the craft, this is one of the most important parts of your training. The voice and movement workshop is designed as a supplementary tool to help actors improve physically and vocally. In the workshop you will learn the craft of stage aesthetics and techniques such...

Scene Study & Audition Technique Class focuses on in-depth script analysis, listening and engaging truthfully with scene partners, improvisation, memorization and perfecting film audition technique through a mastery of cold reading. With a strong emphasis on developing the actor as both artist and professional, it offers a superior level of training...

This 6-week class is a lively exploration of all the essential elements towards loosening, freeing and strengthening your voice. In this class you will become aware of the habitual tensions in your body, breathing musculature, and voice and begin to undo them. As your breath and voice loosen up, the next step is to develop resonance by sensing and...

The discipline and tactile pleasure of stretching and elasticizing one’s body, of freeing the breath, and gathering the resonance of the sound vibrations in the bony hollows of the body; of undoing specific tensions in the jaw, tongue and larynx; and waking up the sweep of one’s vocal range, and engaging the lively economy of the articulators;...