THE THREE WEEK SUMMER INTENSIVE

Combined Approach Schedule & Curriculum Admission Tuition Housing Student Feedback

August 3 - 21, 2009

NYC ACTING CLASSES: An intensive combined approach.

The Workshop offers two three-week sessions, with thirty hours of class time per week. The carefully designed and tested curriculum has been crafted to be accessible to the beginner while remaining novel and challenging to the professional and to teachers of drama. Written student evaluations have been 98% enthusiastic.

The brief nature of the summer program and the logistics of arranging rehearsal times for our NYC acting classes preclude rehearsed scene work. A major part of the technique class is devoted to a unique series of exercises utilizing monologues of the students’ choosing. These exercises, developed over the past 25 years by Mr. Morrison, are simple, practical and enjoyable, and aim at developing an increasing awareness of self and an expanding repertory of choices in the expressive channels of voice, body and face. The work on improvisation is based on the contributions of Viola Spolin. It is a playful, joyful and energizing approach to acting which serves as a refreshing counterpoint to the more analytical and methodical work of the technique class. The classes in movement and voice round out the curriculum.

PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Morrison personally supervises and teaches in the summer program. Mr. Nichols is not available.

Students attend classes Monday - Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for a total of 30 class hours per week. A small amount of additional time is required for preparation and practice. The curriculum includes the following classes:
Acting Technique (12 hrs/wk)
Improvisation (9 hrs/wk)
Voice (4.5 hrs/wk)
Movement (4.5 hrs/wk)

A maximum of 30 students are accepted and all classes are taught in smaller sections in comfortably air-conditioned studios.

Admission to the summer sessions is based on a letter of recommendation from a teacher, director, and/or producer who is familiar with your work, or, for those nearby, a personal interview. The session is open to those graduating from high school, college students, and those long out of college. Minimum age is 17. Teachers of acting are welcome and have found the work to be unique and readily applicable to their own teaching. Applicants should submit the attached application, with a current photo/snapshot and a check for $20. Early application to our NYC acting classes is advisable since these courses often fill up quickly. Those considering applying for the two-year program have found that the summer sessions offer a representative cross section of the full-time curriculum.

Tuition is $1675 for the three-week summer programs. $100 of that amount is due upon acceptance as a non-refundable deposit. There is a $20 application fee.

Full payment for the first session is due no later than Monday, June 29.

Full payment for the second session is due no later than Monday, July 27.

To obtain a refund, a student must submit a Withdrawal Form. Refunds are made based on the date of receipt of the form.

• Withdrawal prior to first day of classes ........$1,575
• Withdrawal during first week of classes ......$800
• There will be no refunds after the first week of classes.

Safe, affordable housing for a limited number of students is available for the first session only. The cost is approximately $1425 for the three weeks. Please conatct the Workshop at 212-947-1310 for more information.

“I had no idea how radically different this program is from other acting schools.”

“For the first time in my life, I felt like someone understood me.”

“The Workshop has changed my life.”

“The instructors and program are brilliant, articulate, simple, ingenious.”

“… best thing I’ve done for myself in the 7 years
I’ve been studying acting.”

“I learned as much about teaching as I did about acting.”

The New Actors Workshop “…a priceless gift”

“Coming from 15 years of Method training I was surprised by the amount of new tools and techniques”

“...strongly focused, integrated, organized, balanced, entertaining and complete.”

“Wow! What a feeling of control and growth at the same time.”

“...the beginning of an autonomous actor.”

“Beyond my wildest expectations.”

“...simply brilliant.”