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Unleash your inner performer with a wide range of acting classes in NYC. From beginner to advanced, learn the art of acting, improve your confidence, and develop your storytelling skills in a supportive environment.

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Musical Theater Masterclass with Jason Thinger

Actors Connection New York @ 630 9th Ave, New York, NY

Join top Broadway casting director, Jason Thinger, for a special Masterclass at Actors Connection New York. Improve your audition material and receive honest feedback from a professional in the industry. Limited to 14 advanced musical theater actors of all types and ages.

(322) Advanced 18 and older
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One Day Advanced TV Hosting/Unscripted with Leila Sbitani

Actors Connection New York @ 519 8th Ave 12th. Fl, New York, NY

Succeed as an on-camera personality in the One Day TV Hosting/Media Training Intensive with Leila Sbitani, TV host coach, and top hosting agent Mark Turner. Here, you can develop your brand, build confidence, and connect with your audience while learning about pitches, auditions, and interviews. This is designed for anyone looking to break in or reinvent themselves in the TV hosting industry.

(322) All levels 18 and older
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$369
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Linklater Meets Meisner

Linklater Center @ 244 West 54th St, New York, NY

The workshop will focus on freeing the instrument through Linklater voice work, while simultaneously freeing the actor through the Meisner technique. Linklater Meets Meisner will explore the symbiotic relationship between the work of Kristin Linklater and Sanford Meisner. Particular focus will be placed on the natural rhythm of impulse, breath, and response, and how that rhythm is the gateway to exciting spontaneity. By combining instinctive spontaneity...

(31) All levels 18 and older
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$180

2 sessions

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Alexander Technique Spring Intensive

Balance Arts Center @ 151 W 30th St, New York, NY

2-Day Intensive in the Alexander Technique! Join us for a weekend intensive to refresh and deepen your understanding and embodiment of the Alexander Technique. The Balance Arts Center faculty will guide you to a nuanced understanding of how the AT process as taught at the BAC can help you enhance every aspect of your life and art form. Spring Intensive Features:  Online & In-Person Participation Options Daily Masterclass with Ann...

(26) All levels 18 and older
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$130
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TV Hosting Level One-Intro to On-Camera

ABEL Intermedia @ 32 Court St, Brooklyn, NY

This 3- hour intensive will change the way you think about television hosting and your career in order to help you succeed in a competitive marketplace. We cover the basics of on-camera skills and techniques along with current trends in hosting, what you need to get started, how to market yourself, where the opportunities are and how to practice. Each class participant will be videotaped on camera at least twice and receives feedback + a link to...

(2) Beginner 18 and older
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$150
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Frantic Assembly: Devising and Physicality

Drama League Theater Center @ 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY

Join Frantic Assembly’s Associate Director, Neil Bettles for a two day workshop, Devising and Physicality. Explore the unique Frantic Method of creating physical material in this highly energetic and creative workshop. Performers, devisers, directors and choreographers will learn how to devise their own movement-led work, quickly and simply through Frantic Assembly’s Building Blocks approach. Award-winning UK theatre...

All levels 18 and older
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$399

2 sessions

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Combining Alexander Technique and Qigong

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

The Alexander Technique is a gentle but powerfully effective movement education method that teaches us how to avoid unnecessary tension in our posture and movements to achieve enhanced efficiency, grace and poise, not just in our physical expression but in every aspect of our lives. And qigong (“life energy cultivation”) exercises are ancient, time-tested Chinese self-cultivation techniques that can dramatically boost our health and well-being....

(299) All levels 18 and older
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On Camera: Film & Television Masterclass w/ Tisha Ioli

The Creative Arc @ 12 W 37th St, New York, NY

This is a one night Film and Television Master Class with Casting Director Tisha Ioli.  For actors who want to brush up on their skills or those of you who are tired of not getting it right. Do you know that you are the only one standing in your way? Learn how to take back the power that sometimes gets lost when you feel unprepared, nervous, or not right for the part. Find out how to focus on the work, check your ego at the door, and walk confidently...

All levels 18 and older
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Stand-Up Comedy Workshop 101

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Through informed, practical lectures; fun, challenging writing exercises; and encouraging, constructive critiques, learn how to write and revise material, acquire performance techniques, obtain stage time and use audience response to determine the effectiveness of your act. Create five minutes of strong stand-up comedy material, then try it out at a major NYC comedy club.

(1061) Advanced 18 and older
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$240

6 sessions

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Anything Goes

ANDTheatre Company @ 244 W 54th St, New York, NY

Gene Santarelli hosts this weekly gathering of actors, writers, directors and more. Present 15 minutes of whatever you’re working on. Scripted plays, solo shows, stand-up, improv…anything does go in this exciting, constructive development workshop. Performing artists of all types join together to support each other in the creative process. Come and present a monologue, try out a solo piece, bring in a portion of a script and hear it read,...

(149) All levels 18 and older
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Beginner Acting III: Business of Acting

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 520 8th Avenue, New York, NY

Learn how to navigate the acting industry with confidence in this comprehensive course. From headshots to auditions, agents to casting, you'll gain practical tools and valuable insights to jumpstart your acting career. Prerequisite: Beginner Acting Class II completion.

(66) Beginner 18 and older
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$295

6 sessions

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On-Camera Cold Reads & Commercial Technique

Actors Technique NY Kids & Teens @ 500 8th Ave, New York, NY

Our first class will start with a "mock" audition, where you will read copy cold and be given adjustments and personalized feedback through the eyes of a commercial casting director.  Commercials are a great entry point for many actors. In fact, you'll probably have many more commercial auditions in your career than you will for legit TV/Film solely by virtue of the fact that there are so many more products, services and advertisers who want...

(7) Beginner 7 and older
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Dante's Divine Comedy: Paradisio

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

In Paradiso, Dante, cleansed of sin, is guided by his beloved Bearice through the nine heavenly spheres, wherein he encounters the souls of the virtuous, his will and intellect are perfected, and he is at last capable of the fullest understanding of love as he achieves the mystical vision of God. The Paradiso is the most challenging and ambitious of the three cantiche of The Divine Comedy in that the poet must find language capable of expressing...

(1061) Advanced 18 and older
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$165

7 sessions

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Creating Solo Shows

Brooklyn Comedy Collective @ 109 Meserole St, Brooklyn, NY

The most powerful thing you have to say onstage comes from your own life experiences. What can you say, from your point of view, that no one else could express like you do? This class will mine your true-life stories to create a narrative solo show that represents your voice onstage.  Over the course of six weeks, students will learn to use all the tools and talents at their disposal to bring to life a thematically-driven, one-person show....

(4) Intermediate 16 and older
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$305

6 sessions

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Bernard Bunye – Brownstone Entertainment Mngmnt

The Actor's Corner NYC @ 260 W 36th St, New York, NY

Bernard has years of experience and has an eye for talent. He is looking to expand his roster. Bernard’s current clients can be seen on Inside Amy Schumer, The Americans, Louie, The Blacklist, The Big C and Blue Bloods.

All levels 16 and older
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Exploring "the Where" in Improvisation w/ Aretha Sills

IRTE @ 411 W 41st St, New York, NY

Taking time to build a “Where" and enter into it as a group helps players into the present moment and into true relation. We’ll discover the riches the environment has to offer as we slow down and explore it. Through a combination of warm-ups and scene games, players will work with space objects to create onstage environments and allow intuitive connections to emerge. Viola Spolin’s Theater Games launched the American improvisational theater...

(2) Intermediate 16 and older
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Healing Through Comedy

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Sometimes life can feel pretty overwhelming, and when it does, take the time to laugh! Comedy and laughter have been suggested to help your heart work better and pump more evenly, boost your immune system, give you more energy, and lower stress levels. Whether you are suffering from physical, emotional, or psychological pain, use your pain to help channel your inner comic. Discover what a joke is and learn how to create comedic stories. Class includes...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$80

2 sessions

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Advanced TV Intensive with John Ort

Actors Connection New York @ 519 8th Ave 12th. Fl, New York, NY

Advanced TV Intensive with John ORT CSA, Major TV Casting Director A rare opportunity NOT to be missed with this major TV Casting Director! John's recent credits include My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, the Miramax feature horror film The Home, the 2nd season of the short form series "State of the Union" for Sundance TV/AMC+, the international series "The Swarm," and the last 5 seasons of CBS's "Bull." EVENT OVERVIEW: This intensive will start with...

(322) Advanced 13 and older
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$119
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Stage Combat Workshop

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 520 8th Avenue, New York, NY

Learn safe techniques for executing violence on stage. This workshop will concentrate on fundamentals of safety, while teaching students how to fall, punch, slap, kick, wrestle. Taught by Ron Piretti – Fight Director for the Broadway productions of “West Side Story”, “In the Heights”, “The Miracle Worker” and fight supervisor for “Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo”.

(66) All levels 18 and older
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$175

2 sessions

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Alexander Technique

The Brick @ 579 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Discover the power of mindful consciousness and explore freedom in thought and movement at The Brick. Uncover a new perspective on how the mind and body can connect to handle the ever-influx of daily stimulus. Join our group classes and experience a journey of self-discovery and expansion.

All levels 18 and older
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