Al - Acting tutor - Toronto
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Al - Acting tutor - Toronto

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  • Rate $98
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Al - Acting tutor - Toronto

$98/hr

1st lesson free

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1st lesson free

1st lesson free

  • Acting
  • Improvisational theatre

Acting Coach: Available for Scene Study, Self Tape Auditions and private coaching.

  • Acting
  • Improvisational theatre

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About Al

After graduating from York University in Toronto as a screenwriter; Al set his sights on New York City to become a working actor and a good actor. Al’s training began at Circle in the Square Theatre School, and Uta Hagen’s HB Studio with the gifted Carol Rosenfeld. Al worked and performed on the stage in New York until he was accepted into his dream acting program, at the Actors Studio Drama School where he received his Master’s in Fine Arts. He studied intensively with theater’s top coaches. He has learned from some of the world’s greatest artists like: Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Ellen Burstyn, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach, Andy Garcia, Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep, Anthony Hopkins, Steven Spielberg, Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Philip Seymour Hoffman and so many more at Inside the Actors Studio craft seminars. Al works in film/tv and the theater in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles some highlights include the award-winning short film Walled IN (written & produced by Al, now being made into a feature film and play), Blackberry, The Novice, Workin’ Moms, The Umbrella Academy, Nikita, How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days, Showtime’s Street Time, Off-Broadway: The Interrogation, Will (written by Al), 2013 Winner! LA Drama Critics Awards for Best Production, Director, Adaptation, CYRANO (World Premiere, DeafWest/Fountain Theatre), 2011 Ovation & LA Weekly Award-winning Best Musical, Best Musical Director, Best Director, HOBOKEN TO HOLLYWOOD, The Sunshine Boys (with Hal Linden and Allan Miller) plus, many more. Today, Al works as an actor, writer, filmmaker and acting professor in Toronto.

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About the lesson

  • All Levels
  • English

All languages in which the lesson is available :

English

Our exploration works on a basis of truth coming from the inside out.

Al’s expertise in the performing arts has helped him develop a deep personal approach to the craft of creating a character, and storytelling.

Al’s style of teaching has been developed over thirty years of studying, working in the film, theatre, and television industry in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto. He received his MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School program in New York City, where he studied intensively with some of New York’s top coaches in: scene study, voice, speech, dialects, theatre history, Stanislavski, Adler, Hagen, Meisner, & Strasberg Methods, Classics, Period and Style and independent workshops covering Dreamwork, Personalization, Improvisation, Affective Memory, the Private Moment, plus many more.

He attended the Craft Seminars from the Emmy award winning Inside the Actors Studio Bravo show which offered Al intimate lectures from some of film and theatres greats.

He worked in Off Off Broadway and Off Broadway, independent theatre companies performing, training, teaching, as a playwright, and producing.

You will acquire a clear set of tools that will support your choices.

The following areas and technique will be approached
On characterization, personalization, relaxation, improvisation,
given circumstances, objectives, and actions.

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Rates

Rate

  • $98

Pack prices

  • 5h: $490
  • 10h: $981

free lessons

The first lesson with Al will allow you to get to know each other and discuss your needs for future lessons.

  • 1hr

online

  • $98/h

Details

THE PRIVATE THREE PACK These sessions provide an excellent orientation for actors transitioning into the film and television community. Two actors will work on diverse film and television scenes in a private coaching atmosphere for three two hour sessions. We will explore all your insights, goals and questions about the scene: the given circumstances, objectives, actions and characterization through analysis and technique exercises. You will deepen your sensory awareness, imagination, release spontaneity via improvisation and concentration. These three sessions will be scheduled at a mutually agreeable time once attendance is confirmed. A photo and resume must be submitted before confirmation.

AUDITIONING My goal to help you book the part, get the call back and/or be seen by the powers that be. As actors we need to remind ourselves that the audition is an opportunity to work, not a job interview. Knowing this: we will work with your unique talent and voice, acting techniques and create relaxed, joyful, simple, strong, bold acting choices based on the material. ​You will create confidence and have a great time. How it works. We’ll set up a time and place for our session. I will send you the material ahead of time, unless you have a scene or monologue you wish to explore. We will focus on the fundamentals of preparing a character. All of the techniques we’ll explore will get you to a place of confidence so you’ll be able to apply them to most of your opportunities.  

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