Online audition courses

The next round of these courses start the week of April 19th 2021.  Each course is six sessions long, held once a week from 7-9 PM on the day indicated.  Cost is $180 for the 6 sessions payable in installments of $30/week.  Because its a pandemic and we want to make developing your skills affordable.  Classes are limited to 8-10 participants. 

Monday night Foundations of Self-Tape Auditions This course is for those of you that have just started or are preparing to start submitting taped auditions form home. Once a week you will tape and submit an audition for review in order to build upon guidance received in class.  The class covers

• Week 1 - Setting up a suitable audition space, file processing, labeling, and submission - a discussion of specifics and a review of your submitted slate.
• Week 2 - Reviewing your submitted short read to develop an understanding of how to use the frame, set eye line, visualize specifics, and use physicality
• Week 3 - Review of retakes of Week 2 reads and review of a new short read to develop the basics of establishing relationship and circumstances
• Week 4 - Review of Week 3 retakes with adjustments based on class discussion and review of new submitted mid length reads (co-star) to develop the analysis of the scene, the arc of the scene, transitions, and the the waypoint moments that are built into the copy.  Discussion of type and playing to type. 
• Week 5 - Review of Week 4 retakes with adjustments from last week’s discussion.  Review of new submitted new mid length read to type. Discussion of how to tape and submit material that supports a character that changes as the narrative progresses. 
• Week 6 - review of multi page audition submission from the perspective of Week 5 lessons and final advice for further work.

Tuesday night Advanced Self-Tape Audition Course (offered again Summer 2021)  This course is for actors that have an established audition setup and have been submitting material to casting for a while.  Critique is based in actor process and how the Casting Director looks at your reads. Once a week an audition will be taped and submitted for this course to address multiple factors that affect performance and casting.

• Week 1 - Submit a read you have already recorded for a project to discuss why it did or did not work.  Discussion of specific issues you identify in your work from a class worksheet.
• Week 2 - A re-submission of last week’s read with adjustments from last week’s discussion.   
• Week 3 - A Guest Star level read that zeroes in on your type requiring that you execute it in a manner that matches expectation.
• Week 4 - A re-submission of the to-type read with adjustments from class AND a read that requires you submit for a role that goes against your type. 
• Week 5 - A re-submission of the against type read with adjustments based on last week’s discussion
• Week 6 - A submission of on-camera host or commercial copy for discussion in our final class.