Featured Courses

Navigating the Industry (Hadi Tabbal)

Presented by Hadi Tabbal –

This class is designed for early career actors who want to gain a useful understanding of how the acting industry actually works to further their careers. Many early career actors don’t necessarily know what this profession really entails until they are deep into it. Yet art and capital intersect heavily in what we do, and having a better understanding of how things work is essential to gaining a platform.

This class is part-acting practice, part-discussion. Based in camera work, you are first invited to navigate the acting part of the work, and from that, open yourself up to a wider discussion of the business aspect of the work. How does employment (or casting) intersect with acting? How can we build actionable goals? How do we navigate work/life balance in a volatile landscape? What is required of us to function at that critical intersection of commerce and art? Are there helpful paradigms that we can individualize? How can we stay away from one-size-fits all advice, quick fixes, and scams?

Hadi Tabbal is a NY-based theater, film, and TV actor and writer. Hadi just starred in the Pulitzer prize-winning play ENGLISH on Broadway which opened to rave reviews and was named the best play of the decade by Variety. Hadi himself won an Obie Award and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel for his work on ENGLISH at The Atlantic Theater. Hadi also starred in the NY Times Critic’s Pick production of THE VAGRANT Trilogy at The Public Theater. On television, Hadi starred as Amir Al-Raisani on NBC’s THE BRAVE… read more

Lucid Body Workshop (Brenna Palughi)

Presented by Brenna Palughi –

Held in-person:

The Lucid Body is a psycho-physical process that offers a new insight into character diagnosis and embodiment. The actor is offered a way to embody the given circumstances of a character with a deep visceral truth by rearranging the energy in your own body.

Holistic acting means that the act of acting is a benefit to your system, not a drain. Lucid Body is a holistic training, based on the belief that self-knowledge is the most important ingredient to your acting. Using Carl Jung’s theories of persona and shadow, we will start with understanding why we are the way we are. Then we will bring this understanding of our own humanity to the characters that seem the farthest away from ourselves.

Talk To Me: Monologues (Richard Hoehler)

A six-session monologue workshop for actors led by Richard Hoehler. His extensive experience creating, performing, and coaching monologues centers on an effective method of breaking through defenses to mine an actor’s unique qualities, and meld those with the character. At its culmination, you will have learned and rehearsed two contrasting monologues that are ready for professional auditions as well as MFA auditions. FRONT ROW CENTER wrote of Hoehler’s monologue work: “There is nothing limited about it, not its timeliness, not the depth to which it touches us.”

Presented by Richard Hoehler (to be held in-person)