In our 5 days together, this class exercises the fundamental techniques of the craft of acting. Students will be taken through the foundational building blocks of acting technique pursued by acting students in the best acting schools and studios across the globe.

This class is for relative beginners to understand, experientially, what it means to work at becoming a skilled actor. The class can also serve the advanced beginner by reworking, through exercises, the technique notions that will keep you in shape to “play the scene.”

An added bonus for this class cycle is that the technique exercises are designed and will be played frequently for the camera. Thus, we will also be introducing you to basic “on-camera” act technique. There is a significant difference between stage work and camera work, and we will give you that perspective, and practice, early on.

Students in this class will work on 2 short one-minute monologues, improvisational exercises, and at least 2 short contemporary scenes. All this will be filmed with quality sound. Alex Murphy will email scenes to students ahead of time. Monologues are chosen by the actors.

We work, and play, in each class to understand experientially what it means to work at becoming a skilled actor. This class experience has been devised for actors to begin to get a hold on what process works specifically, and then, finally, above all, to be loose and playful; just jumping in to give acting a good go on stage, and “on-camera.”