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Actors Workout Studio |
(818) 766-2171 |
Classes with Emmy Award winner Fran Montano are small, individualized, and are like working with a private coach. The work includes exercises, scene study, improvisation, cold reading, and On Camera. Class members regularly mount performances and industry invited events. Our beginning and advanced actors build a solid, strong foundation. Check out our website for more info.
Former Students....
"I shy away from conventional acting classes. But once in a while you meet someone who inspires you. Fran does!" - Rene Russo
“Fran’s insight to acting is astounding. He’s great at guiding actors into exploring their deepest and riches choices…" - David Arata – Oscar Nominated Writer – Children of Men
"Fran finds what's in an actor's way and breaks through it. A must for any serious actor." -
Lynda Goodfriend - Personal Manager
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Paula J Riley |
(212) 689-4362 |
For over 35 years Paula has acted, directed, taught, coached and produced in New York City.
Her philosophy is simple - "If you embrace a thing fully: heart, mind and dedication, you will achieve it".
Her aim is to help the actor achieve the greatest possibility for the existence of nuance, through the profound understanding of character development and its inevitable progression. |
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Sam Christensen Studios |
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| Specializes in image definition for actors wanting to create a personalized career plan. The Sam Christensen ProcessTM offers lectures, discussions and practical exercises. Sam's process helps the actor build a personalized presentation and strategy. For beginners to pros - Attend a free preview class. |
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Clay Banks Film Acting Studio |
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| What is a Film Director ultimately looking for? Do you deliver effective emotional intensity in an ECU (extreme close-up)? Knowing the answers to these questions can greatly affect your success as a Film/TV actor. This on-camera, no nonsense acting and audition technique is geared specifically for Film & TV. |
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The Actor's Intensive |
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Kirk Baltz has appeared in such films as Reservoir Dogs and Face/Off.
He offers Private Coaching & On Camera Workshops to beginners and professionals.
"There is no actor I know with more artistic integrity, love of the craft,
and just plain know-how than Kirk Baltz."
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
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Addison Witt Studio |
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| Addison Witt, Hollywood's independent talent manager owns and operates Witt Management and Studio of Los Angeles, California. The company is comprised of both child and adult actors. Addison Witt has coached actors for the following pilots; Lost at Home on ABC, Nip Tuck on FX and more. |
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The Bernard Hiller Studio |
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The right coach can help you achieve your destiny! Discover your unique qualities and overcome any self defeating behaviors that can block your success. Bernard Hiller is known worldwide for his direct and passionate means of lifting his students to their full potential. |
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Toni Attell |
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| Toni Attell is an Emmy nominated actress and acting coach who has taught both nationally and internationally. She is a professor at the USC School of Cinema and Television. Toni has worked and trained with some of the masters in the performance art field. She works with children, teen, adults and seniors. |
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The Acting Lab |
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| Classes cover improvisation, sensory work, camera technique exercises, monologue and scene study. All the Lab classes are taught personally by the award-winning director and actress Catlin Adams. Students learn to prepare for a part, create a character, breakdown a script and become their own director. |
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The Total Workshop for Acting |
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| Michael has designed a Workshop that makes films with his actors and enters them in Film Festivals around the world. Mr. Savage custom writes material for all of his students as well as empowering them with the proper tools to bring the best out in their work. He also produces custom demos and original films. |
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Larry Moss Studio |
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| The Larry Moss Studio is led by respected teachers Larry Moss and Michelle Danner. We are housed at Edgemar Center for the Arts, a two theater & art gallery complex in Santa Monica. The Studio offers a wide array of classes for all ages & levels, including scene study, cold reading, improv and more. |
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The Actors Room |
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| Coaching for the actor in LA and Orange County. "Acting" can be no less than the deepest form of creative expression. To understand the craft, is to understand self-expression, as well as, becoming the voice and embodiment of others in the most passionate, and risk-taking way imagined by the human mind. |
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Julie Nation |
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| As individuals and staff at Julie Nation Academy and Model and talent Management, it is our mission to create a supporting and loving environment. We aspire to empower each student and person whose life we touch, to grow into their potential. |
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Santa Clarita School of Performing Arts |
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| Acting requires intensive training that can be challenging, engaging, and one of the best life experiences you can have. You see acting needs the whole person, both the outward projection to society and the inward self of feeling, , thinking, sensing, imagining and remembering. |
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Jeffery Marcus Acting Classes |
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| Jeffery currently works with some of the leading actors on film and television. My classes are primarily Scene Study. It is important to me that everyone get up and work once a week, so classes are kept intimate. I work with each actor individually, as sometimes the levels of the classes are mixed. |
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