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"the best place for teens to study acting"

Teen Actor’s Lab is for passionate young actors of all levels. Have some experience, but ready to take it to the next level? The Lab is a supportive and creative place to learn the technique and skills needed to work on great roles. Matt and Sarah’s classes have earned a reputation for serious fun and excellence. All classes culminate in a showcase per

formed for invited audiences, including industry guests. Classes currently run three hours, once per week. Sessions vary from 8 to 12 weeks in length.

-Scene Study
-Private coaching
-Audition coaching: Get help preparing for auditions! Go into the room with the confidence, technique and choices that will help land jobs.
-On-set prep: Did you book it? We’ll help make sure you go to set prepared!
-Private acting session: Get specialized, one-on-one attention in scene and monologue work.
-Career consultation: Specially tailored advice on agents and managers, headshots, auditions, training & more.

-On-set coaching: Matt and Sarah are available for work as Performance Consultants to television networks and film studios.

12/05/2020

It's really such a gift to be an actor.

Some of your life “stuff” comes up and you get to heal it. Sometimes, there's just no other way but to heal through acting.
Your wounds will come right up and you’ll say "Oh hello! I guess I have deal with you now."
What a gift!
So much of my own profound healing and so many things that I’ve been able to face has been because of acting.

Being an actor is not just a gift to the world, but it's a gift to ourselves.

Has acting helped you heal? How has acting profoundly changed you?

12/01/2020

Even though the WAITING ROOM is now a Zoom chat, you can still USE your environment to propel you and move you forward. Don’t let the new virtual world of auditions distract you from your purpose!

Did setting up Zoom stress you out? USE IT ✨
Dog barking in the background? USE IT ✨
Audition space too small? USE IT ✨

Every piece of life that happens around us can be used to fuel our motives - even for just a moment.

12/01/2020

“Embrace your imperfections”. I call BS.

This got me thinking acting and how this idea is harmful to you and your craft.

You already know that acting with a mirror on yourself leads to a heady performance. But, if you do act and watch yourself, somewhere in there you may have a belief operating about perfection— needing to be good, needing to be right...wanting validation from your art. But this is no path to truthful, impactful storytelling. Or happiness, for that matter.

So, naturally many smart actors, in the quest for truth, have been led to believe they need to “embrace their imperfections”, find the beauty in them, show up in their Instagram stories with no makeup and show all your fabulous “flaws”...

But what if there WERE NO FLAWS? Why is it framed like that?

helped me learn this: The idea of embracing our imperfections means that somewhere out there, there is some perfect human we’re striving to become and everything less than that coveted perfect is flawed. But isn’t it true that all of us humans have stuff we’re working on? We all have challenges, hiccups…we make mistakes.

Yes we can do better sometimes, but it does not mean we are broken.

Like, share this post and drop a

11/27/2020

Happy Thanksgiving a day late because I was busy doing these lovely things with my ❤️s. Missing extended family and friends in these more pod-focused times... know you are all on my mind and I can’t wait to hug and dance and sneeze together in the near future! Join me in making this whole holiday season about gratitude and all the things that make our lives so rich. I’m feeling grateful for my health, the health of my family, the love and support in my life, for the simple fact that all of my basic human needs are met and for binge-worthy/trashy love stories. What are you grateful for?

11/25/2020

Ever been through this?

A big audition finally comes through, you know the one-- the one you've been waiting for all year...or maybe all career?

You do all your work: You get off-book and do your prep, you break it down and understand the objectives and obstacles and actions, you build relationships to the PPOE, you find the rhythm and stakes, etc. You even read it with an actor friend and get it on its feet.

And for some dang reason you're still not buying yourself in the role. (And you can tell -- your friend isn’t buying it either.)

HOW can this be happening after all your and hard work?

Panic. Code red! You go over your lines 8 million more times (even though you know them). You rethink your choices. Change your outfit. You call your friend and cry.

What would you do next?

Read the rest inside the Actors With Purpose Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/actorswithpurpose

11/24/2020

And of course this applies to actors. Drop YES in the comments if you agree! Repost thanks!

11/21/2020

I’ve told my students this story over the years which illustrates this point perfectly. I first met .shanley in my 20s as the reader for the auditions of his then new play Sailor Song at . (Btw I was sh*tting myself nervous as a young actress who had worked on and studied many of his plays, as many of you have.) The doors to the flew open with a bang and before anyone could speak he exploded (in the purest Bronxian declaration): “I FELL IN LOVE ON THE SUBWAY!”, his long legs propelling him across the , almost in a fury, to where he collapsed in the chair provided with a regretful plop. “But I’m over it now, I’m over it....” and with that he departed into a about the woman from the R train I was certain would surface in his next play, perhaps the sequel to Savage in Limbo.

Actors get so afraid of being too big — and there’s this ever increasing pressure to throw it all away — that they shrink themselves into mediocre mumblers with nothing at stake. They make it sound “natural” to save themselves from the agony of risking the dreaded “larger than life” or “over the top”.

Imagine if in had played naturalism in with “ I LOST MY HAND, I LOST MY BRIDE!” ?

My dear friends: Stay connected to the truth and be bold.

Thanks to JPS for the juicy teaching material!

11/21/2020

Amen ! The best feeling of all is standing in your power with zero apology and owning your badassery! When you no longer need the approval of the or the or your agent or your mom , that’s when the magic happens! Thanks for posting! ❤️

11/17/2020

I’ve learned today is

I wouldn’t be an entrepreneur if it weren’t for many people who have inspired me but I have especially enormous gratitude for my very special mentor and friend who taught me so much about how to run a thriving business.

Dallas started as a business coach for actors which is where I learned that actors are also entrepreneurs. When I started to really see myself that way, things shifted in my life. I use so much of what she taught me then in the business side of what I do now but I also use it in my coaching work with actors— helping them take potent action as the CEO of their empire.

It’s funny, this picture is 21 year old me (photo credit ) before I really learned to own my badass entrepreneur self, but I like it because I can see that I’m on my way there...sorta faking it till I “made it.” Still working on that.

Dallas taught me to do less more often. To take care of my core first. And above all, to trust myself above any coach out there. All of it advice I circle back to often. Thanks, Dallas!

What’s the best advice you have ever received, acting repeated or otherwise? As an actor, do you think of yourself as an entrepreneur?

11/17/2020

How will you love yourself this week? Pick up a new scene? Read a play by your favorite playwright? Write the first scene of the pilot in your head? Work on your voice every day? Invest in a mentor? Share in the comments below and I’ll check back in and hold you accountable this week via DM!

11/11/2020

I loved the question that came up in our ACTION focused workshop today around how to have a healthy prep process for auditions— and if in fact there is such a thing. “Rehearse!” “Don’t rehearse!” “Get out of your head!” “Get IN your head!”

What’s an actor to do?

Of course I believe there is, without a doubt, a way to be prepared, to use technique and still be in the moment and spontaneous. You CAN get it, it just takes practice.

Fabulous group of today, I enjoyed every minute! Thank you all ❤️

What about you? Do you have a “healthy” process for that works?

11/08/2020

This is for real what my tea bag says.

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