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The Actor’s Life Workshop
The Actor’s Life:
Bridging the gap between your personal life and your acting career.
- Do you dream of setting up your life so that you can focus on your acting?
- Do you want a personalized action plan for your acting career?
- Do you need to learn how to use your individual strengths to increase your income, your security, your creativity and well… your happiness?
If you are ready to get clear about your acting career in a safe, supportive, fun-loving environment, then this workshop is for you. Open to all creative people, from novices to expert professionals, this hands-on workshop will give you the tools you need to make 2012 your best year yet.
The Actor’s Life Workshop
Samantha Bennett is the creator of The Organized Artist Company; dedicated to helping creative people get unstuck and motivated. A professional actress based in Los Angeles, Samantha offers her revolutionary “Get It Done” and “Get Your Work Out There” Workshops, tele-classes and private consulting in the areas of self-branding, individualized career planning and arts business to creative professionals around the globe.
Actor’s Life Workshop
Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio
DATE: 3 Sundays January 22, 29 and February 5th, 2012
TIME: 2:00pm
LOCATION: 7600 Melrose Avenue 2nd Floor, Los Angeles 90046
COST: $130
CONTACT: 323-528-6280 For more information
For more information on The Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio visit us on the web at www.emasla.com
Great New Images from our classes
The Physical Voice with Paul Boehmer
October 16 – November 20
Combining the ideas of Fitzmaurice vocal work and Physical Dynamics, this workshop is geared to help in important areas of an actor’s development.
“One of the best and most freeing voice classes I’ve ever experienced. Paul is a master teacher”
Richard B.
What it does:
Physicality: we develop awareness of patterns of vocal effort or blocks through a series of gentle and/or rigorous exercises.
Breath: we explore the central role that breathing plays in both vocal production and the inspired imagination.
Vocal Quality: we cultivate the ability to accurately communicate our thoughts and feelings while meeting the demands of text.
Practical Results: we reduce strain in the voice, increase vocal range and expressivity, make speech easy and clear, allowing creativity to flow.
When: Sundays 7 – 9pm
Where: EMAS
7600 Melrose Avenue, LA 90046
Cost: $270 for 6 classes
Contact: 323-528-6280
***Highly recommended for those in the 2-year Meisner Training Program***
This class is a magnificent way to make sure that your instrument is able to do all it is required to do when working on emotionally charged scenes. It helps the actor to work through physical and emotional blocks while also helping them understand the way breath and language can help tell the story, develop a character and engage the audience.
Call 323-528-6280 for more information.
To learn more about the Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio
visit www.emasla.com
EMAS is the recommended training program for
NBC’s Talent Development Initiative.
Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio
7600 Melrose Ave. 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, California 90046
323-528-6280
THE MEISNER TECHNIQUE at the Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio
Although our two Meisner Technique sessions are filled, we have one alternate spot in each session. An alternate attends all classes, has rehearsal partners, and gets to work in class when a full status student is absent. If at some point in the program a full status student leaves the class, the alternate then steps in to the full status spot.
Alternates pay 1/2 tuition but still get the opportunity to learn this amazing technique at this incredible studio. Call us at 323-528-6280. Registration will be open until October 3rd.
If you are ready for professional actor training, the EMAS Meisner Technique Program is for you. It has been desigend for actors who want to ignite their imaginations, work from their instincts expand their emotional availability and add passion and excitement to their performances.
Sanford Meisner’s clear, step-by step process give actors the tools they need to create dynamic and memorable scenes, for auditions and performances.
That is why the Meisner Technique is so respected in Hollywood, it gets you the training needed to make acting your career!
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THE ELIZABETH MESTNIK ACTING STUDIO is one of Hollywoods most highly regarded acting schools:
Here’s what the industry has to say about EMAS:
“EMAS has a very talented and versitile group of actors.”
-Paul Weber -Head of Casting Paramount
” I have seen Elizabeth work miracles with actors from beginning to advanced”
– Damona Resnick – Casting Director – NBC
” She is simply the best at what she does”
– Ed Yeager – T.V. producer – Still Standing, Suddnely Susan, Gary Unmarried
When: Classes start September 19th, 2011
Session A: Mondays and Thursdays 10am
Session B: Tuesdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 10am
Where: 7600 Melrose Avenue, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90046
Read what our students and the industry have to say about EMAS at YELP
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DO WHAT YOU CAME HERE TO DO!
Why Study The Meisner Technique? (flyer)
The Meisner Technique demands that an actor make a commitment to their training, as this training, if you follow the syllabus developed by Sanford Meisner, takes place over 9-months. This is serious training for serious students. So why should you make this sacrifice of time, effort , and yes – money? Why not take a 4-week workshop and be done with it? What does the Meisner Technique do that is so special?
To put it simply –
TO GET IN ACTOR SHAPE!
I have always compared acting to sports, because in sports the work you put in directly affects the product you put out. You can be a weekend jock, or an Olympic athlete. So, to continue this metaphor, if acting is like, say… Gymnastics… then Meisner is like going to the gym to get strong and flexible. The more traditional acting skills (objectives, actions, character biography etc) are like learning the different elements, – (the cartwheel, the back flip, the somersault etc.) Most Acting Classes teach you the elements, but don’t know how to get you into shape.
Now I will be honest with you. I can do a somersault, and I can even do a cartwheel – but they are pretty pathetic because at the age of 42, I’m really not all that strong and flexible. But if I worked out every day to increase my upper body strength and the flexibility of my spine, those elements would look much better. And when Olympic gymnasts do these elements, we are in awe, because they dedicate themselves to knowing the elements and being fit enough to execute them.
The actor who understands the “elements” like playing an action, or making a character choice, but isn’t emotionally connected to the material leaves the audience cold, or even worse – uncomfortable for the actor. Like me doing my somersault, we don’t want to see it again! The out of shape actor can make sense of a part, but will lack the heart. And we need for the audience to be drawn into our performance, to feel what the actors feel – and if the actors feel nothing – well, the audience will feel nothing. THAT IS NOT ENOUGH! So we train, rigorously, like professional athletes, to take our performance to the next level. To put our abilities on par with the best actors out there.
So why take Meisner? Because it gets you to:
Discover who you are and how you are unique
Work from your instincts and not your intellect
Work honestly off of your acting partner
Access and strengthen your emotional range
Be fearless in your work
Make bold and honest choices
Be surrounded by other serious actors
Remove self consciousness
Really do, really feel, really fight, really laugh, really be…Really!
THE ABILITY TO DO THE ABOVE MEANS YOU ARE IN ACTOR SHAPE!
It also says a lot to the people who might hire you about how dedicated you are to mastering your craft. A casting director who sees that you have completed a true 1 or 2 year Meisner Program knows what they can expect. Spontaneity, emotional range, self knowledge, brave choices and truthful behavior.
I hope I will see you working out with me this Fall!
For more information on the studio visit us at www.emasla.com
Smart exceprt on Meisner
“Meisner was very opposed to Strassbergs use of Emotional Memory. He believed that depending on one’s own life experiences for emotional connection limited what the actor might be capable of playing. If an actor did not have a wealth of dramatic experiences from which to draw from, they would be at a disadvantage. He also feared that continually drawing on traumatic experiences from the past was not a healthy way to work. Meisner preferred for actors to expand their imaginations so that they could connect to the imaginary circumstances of the play and stay in character, always working from what the actor’s truthful response to imaginary circumstances. He discovered that the body often responded to a fully lived fantasy in the same way they responded to real life events.”
learn more from the Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio on the Meisner Technique
DO WHAT YOU CAME HERE TO DO!
Wow! I cannot believe that the summer is already over. It absolutely flew by. Thank you for making our summer programs such a success. And if you are new to EMAS, Welcome! EMAS is a dynamic professional acting training studio for the dedicated actor at any stage of his or her career.
Our summer was jam packed with two great Meisner Intensives, the return of Chris Game for Commercial Technique and the Advanced On Camera class. It left me hardly any time to go to the beach! And to top it all off EMAS’ very own Three Feathers Theatre Company was voted “Most Promising Theatre Company in L.A.” by Backstage West!
But the summer is almost over, Hollywood is picking up the pace and so is EMAS. This newsletter is a way for you to find out about what has been going on at EMAS and more importantly what is coming up. Because, as we all know in this crazy business called acting, the only thing you have control over is your craft! So take control of it and make sure you are getting all the skills you need to be at the top of your game. Look for information on our Fall Meisner Program, Scene Study, and Beginning Acting classes.
So I hope you have had a fantastic summer, are well rested and ready to get back to work! Because it is time to
DO WHAT YOU CAME HERE TO DO!
See you soon!
Elizabeth
ACTING FOUNDATIONS
September 22 – December 8, 2011
EMAS is offering our Basic Technique class this fall. It is an 11-week course that is designed for the student with little or no acting training. Through exercises, improvisations and scene study you will learn the importance of relaxation, emotional availability, research and working with others. This exciting class develops skills that can be applied easily, effectively and specifically.
When: Monday nights at 7:00pm
Cost: $500
Prerequisite: NONE
Call 323-528-6280 for more information or visit us at https://www.emasla.com
MEISNER TECHNIQUE CURRENTLY ENROLLING
EMAS is currently interviewing applicants for the Fall Professional Training Program. This prestigious program will begin September 17th.
There are two available sessions:
- Tuesdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 10am
or - Mondays and Thursdays at 10am
This program is considered one of the best Meisner Training Programs in Los Angeles, and is for those actors who are ready to dedicate the next 9 months to this challenging and exciting technique.
Admission is through a personal interview.
CALL 323-528-6280 or email [email protected] for more information or to arrange your interview.
