Our Two Year, Part Time, PRO PERFORMANCE
Acting Program is designed to enhance and refine your ability to be ready and able to work professionally for the stage and for the camera.

This program is designed particularly to provide candidates with a means to complete a professional level actor training program over a two year period (1 year international Foundational + 1 year Pro Performance Advance Program) while also maintaining  a part-time or full time employment. You can do both, and the Mulholland Studio is dedicated to keeping this option open to actors who simply cannot commit to a full-time professional level diploma program over an extended period of time.
There is a long history of successful and legendary actors who have acquired professional level actor training exclusively in a private studio program such as ours. Our aim is to continue to offer the opportunity to grow as a performer, learn how to hang on to that growth, and then stay connected to the realities of the “industry” so that you are ready, in your own time and space, to work professionally.

During our training season, in addition to pure technique work in several disciplines, we also rehearse lots of stage and film text for presentation. Additional, periodically, we rehearse and fully prepare some resume building, published performance work for the stage, inviting a live audience. Significantly, there is lots of on-camera scene and monologue preparation to shoot for the eventual and absolute necessity of compiling a “Showreel” to industry standard.

The Essential, core classes for the PRO PERFORMANCE
Professional Acting Program are as follows:

Meisner Technique (Level I, II, and MasterClass)
Lecoq Technique (Level I, II)
Acting for the Camera (Level I, II, III)
Fusion Technique/Short Play Production for a live audience
Devised Theatre Performance project for a live audience
Scene Study Advanced

Improvisation for Actors

Voice/Speech (Level I, II)

Strasberg Method (Level I, II, and Master Class)
 Shakespeare (Level I, II)

ReFocus Method (Level I, II)

There may be at least 2 guest teachers during training
season offering alternative disciplines/approaches. This is TBA.

Entry requirements:
– The 1st year Pro Performance Acting Program focusses on building the Foundations of Acting, which means that talent and a basic acting level/experience is required.

– The 2nd year Pro Performance Professional Acting Program is
partially comprised of candidates who have successfully completed our International Foundational Diploma program; and students who show an advanced acting technique and experience throughout the audition process. 

The Part Time, Two Year Pro Performance Professional
Acting Program will also consider admitting applicants with previous exposure to actor training from other institutions, and who demonstrate, raw talent, and then a full willingness and capability to follow the advanced level course of study.

Finally, our primary, singular goal in the “Part Time, Two
Year” professional diploma program is, simply, to train our actors as holistically as possible to be ready and able to work in the local and international professional English speaking film, television, and theatre industry. Therefore, it is essential for candidates to have a viable command of conversational English for the Professional Diploma program.