Now Enrolling: Winter 2019 Acting Classes
The Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio (EMAS) is now enrolling for our most popular Winter courses: Our 2019 Spring Meisner Program and 2019 Beginning Acting Courses.
2019 Spring Meisner Program:
Our flagship Meisner Class Spring program runs for 8 months, beginning in January of 2019. This rigorous course is designed to give the serious acting student a solid foundation in the practice of the Meisner Technique, providing a concrete skillset rooted in accessing one’s truth to more fully relate to a character, a scene and one’s self.
Read more about our Meisner Program here, or schedule an interview today.
2019 Winter Beginning Acting Courses:
Acting Foundations; Beginning Acting
12 Weekly Courses beginning January 8th.
Our demanding but fun Acting Foundations class is designed to touch on the fundamental skills required in the acting profession. The class draws from Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, Linklater, and many other techniques to lay a foundation for engaging, exciting performances on the screen or the stage.
The Character; A Beginning Acting Class
11 Weekly Classes beginning January 10th
The Character aims to give students the experience and the tools to create characters that speak to audiences. Finding a character’s voice, physicality and psychology are emphasized through exercises, improvisations, monologue and scene work.
Testimonials: Our Students’ Experience
At EMASLA, we’re determined to empower actors with the fundamental skills that make great actors.
Dante Ryan elaborates on how his training at EMAS helped him to identify and cultivate his emotions.
Brittany shares her unique experience of the Meisner Technique at EMAS.
Katie Bendi finds her emotional truth.
Meisner Monday : Putting it All Together: F**k the Text,Work off Your Partner
In today’s Meisner Monday video, students practice how to deal with strong tension with their partners.
Seventeenth Repetition Exercise: Careful with Your Crafting
This video reminds us that generalized emotion cannot be the goal of your crafting. Specificity and a direct understanding of the success or failure of what you are doing is the key. As Sandy always said “The foundation of acting is the reality of doing.”
3 Minute Meisner Monday: Working with the Given Circumstances
In this video students have added shared circumstances to the improvisation, where the person entering now has something they need from their partner. Elizabeth shows how important it is not to lose contact with your partner just because you have an objective.
3 Minute Meisner Monday: Emotional Preparation in Scene Work
The fifteenth video in our 3 Minute Meisner series, our students are encouraged to express their emote their lines as a genuine reaction to their partner and the scene. This is accomplished only through true vulnerability and openness, skills (qualities) that are honed through training and practice.
Movement 1: Honing Physical Expression for Actors
Movement 1 2018/2019 Course.Register now
Movement 1
October 3rd – December 12, 2018 & January 9th – March 13th 2019
Great actor training focuses on the whole instrument: voice, mind, heart, and body. A strong physical presence is crucial to the professional actor being fully aware and open in terms of physical habits, postures, gestures, body language and voice and sound.
Movement I is designed to develop the actor’s physicality. It will release the constrictions of the actor’s instrument and free the actor’s emotional life; to move away from pedestrian, every day, socialized behavior and to embody a more authentic, expansive, and unbridled expression.
Throughout the twenty-week period, students go through a variety of exercises drawn from the Williamson Technique. They will begin to understand how this technique is the physical component of the acting work they are doing in their Meisner classes. It is a chance for students to immediately move beyond physical constrictions and use the body as a full acting instrument that can interact unimpeded with all the senses, to the world around them and to the other “players’ in that world..
Students will explore where tension is held in the body and how the body responds when it is emotionally alive. Simultaneously, students will be building a sense of grace, flexibility, strength, stamina, and vulnerability. The goal is to effortlessly apply these principles to making clear physical choices in the acting work.
Class Schedule:
Wednesdays at 7pm
Tuition:
$940 ( Weekly classes over a 20 week period ) 50% deposit required to register.
Instructor:
Caitlin Rigney
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If you would like more information, please call Elizabeth at 323-528-6280, or [email protected].
Conservatory Course: An alternative to BFA/MFA in Acting
Conservatory Training Program 2018/2019. Register Now
EMAS is excited to announce our new Conservatory Training Program (CTP).Created to be an affordable alternative to BFA/MFA Acting programs,this option offers actors the ability to develop their actor’s instrument, learn to analyze text as well as acquire their acting craft.The Conservatory Training Program will consist of the following courses:
- Meisner Acting Technique
- Fitzmaurice Voice Work
- Movement for Actors
- Shakespeare
This is a rare opportunity for student actors to get professional training at a fraction of the cost of a conservatory. We believe that the focused, daily nature of conservatory –style training helps make actors more competitive in the entertainment industry.
CTP will begin in the fall of 2018.
Tuition for the 9-month program is $4800.Payment Plans available.
Admissions are through Interview only.
About The Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio
EMAS is a dynamic acting training program for those who want to study the craft of acting in a challenging and inspiring environment. Our reputation is for producing exciting and spontaneous actors with reliable acting technique. That is why The Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio is ranked as the top acting program in Los Angeles by CBS and Backstage, among others. our Professional approach, as well as the individualized commitment to each student that has earned us the reputation as on of L.A’s most respected acting schools.
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If you would like more information, please call Chase at323-528-6280, or [email protected], or register now
3 minute Meisner Mondays : Leave Yourself Alone
The fourteenth video in the series. Elizabeth talked about how fear and anger are intertwined,and how the delicate and fragile happy emotion would be popped up against. Students tried to perform such conflicts. Acting is not merely showing emotions,however. Watch Elizabeth giving advice right now.
3 MINUTE MEISNER MONDAYS: PART XIII OF THE REPETITION EXERCISE
The thirteenth video in a series of 3 minute segments of a Meisner class. The student tried to perform the trickiest emotion:Happy. How to bring the happy emotion to life through the somehow pedestrian actions is challenging.Watch Elizabeth giving advice right now.
