The Part-time Conservatory is designed to give students with busy schedules the opportunity to study and build a foundation in the Atlantic Technique and philosophy.
Contact Steven Chinni to get started and put together from our workshop offerings an individualized program that helps you take your training and career to the next level. Receive a $50 discount for registering for multiple classes per semester. A $100 non-refundable deposit is required to register and hold a spot for each class.
Fall Semester begins October
Winter Semester begins January
Spring Semester begins May
Summer Semester begins July
TECHNIQUE & SCENE STUDY I
An introduction to the Atlantic Technique. Course includes Script Analysis and Repetition work explored thru scene study and structured acting exercises. Learn how to analyze a scene to arrive at an essential action that will bring the writer’s intentions to life and then play that action truthfully in the moment. These analysis skills will enable the actor to break down a script or set of audition sides, resulting in strong and compelling performance choices.
Tuition: $600
Summer 2013 5wk Session
Dates: July 15th – August 15th
Mondays & Thursdays AM (9:30am to 1:45pm) or Mondays and Thursdays PM (6pm to 10:15pm)
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An interview is required for admittance to this program. Please contact Steven Chinni to schedule. Upon admittance, a $100 non-refundable deposit is required to register for this class. This deposit is applied to the total tuition. The balance of the tuition is due the week before the program begins. To put down the non-refundable deposit please email Clayton Early.
TECHNIQUE & SCENE STUDY II
Requires successful completion of LVL I, Summer Intensive or Spring Comprehensive. In LVL II Script Analysis class students work on high stakes scenes, exploring the As If introduced in LVL I in greater depth in order to bring more bravery and vulnerability to their work and expand their actor’s range of expression. In Repetition class students work on exercises involving beat changes and multiple person repetition. Character development is explored through Private Life work and the use of physical space and shape.
Tuition: $600
Summer 2013 5wk Session
Dates: July 15 – August 15
Mondays and Thursdays PM (6pm to 10:15pm)
*LVL II requires successful completion of previous training at Atlantic.
ADVANCED TECHNIQUE & SCENE STUDY
Requires successful completion of LVL II and faculty approval. How do you build variety and versatility when approaching a scene? How does action inform character? What result do YOU want to come across to the audience or casting director? In this advanced class these questions are addressed so the actor begins to match what they think they are doing with what the audience/casting director sees. Students will work on scenes that require an external to tell the story, multiple person scenes and audition skills.
Tuition $550
Dates TBD
*LVL III requires successful completion of previous training at Atlantic.
ON CAMERA WORKSHOP WITH TODD THALER AND LORIELLE MALLUE
Designed for the actor familiar with Practical Aesthetics, the first half of this course focuses on refining script analysis and moment-to-moment skills by delving into high-stakes dramatic monologue material from respected screenplays. The second half of the class challenges actors to apply those skills quickly under the pressure of an audition. Working with sides, delivering cold readings, and practicing interviewing affords them the opportunity to experience mock casting sessions with a professional casting director.
Spring 2013 6wk Session
Registration deadline: April 12th
Dates: Wednesdays April 24th – May 29th (6:30-9:30pm)
Tuition: $295
INTRO VOCAL WORKSHOP WITH KATIE BULL
This vocal workshop is about vocal power, audibility, and expression; moment to moment breath that manifests spontaneous vocal impulse and range; communication in present moment; vocal health; and vocal support for articulation that is rooted in the whole body. Students learn the 24 core exercises of a vocal production warm up sequence that is developmentally based, and organic. This sequence can evolve over time to be customized and adapted for each unique vocal body. The exercises, in turn, can be applied to text — and acting can become a fully physical art. Katie Bull is the founder of Whole Body Voice (c), a whole body approach to vocal production for the speaking voice. Katie trained with the renowned vocal coach Chuck Jones and collaborated with him until his passing.
Spring 2013 8wk Session
Registration deadline: Limited Space available. Register ASAP
Dates: April 10th – June 5th (no class on April 24th) 8:30pm – 10pm
Tuition: $325
VOCAL WORKSHOP WITH KATIE BULL
Requires previous training with Katie Bull. Vocal Workshop students continue to explore and refine the Jones-rooted vocal warm up practice with greater detail. Specificity of awareness and self coaching approaches rooted in the use of gravity, help actors to find support muscles, and to trust the released voice. Specific texts are assigned to explore the application of the warm up tools. The present moment is explored as an aspect of vocal production breathing. Some introductory principals of a compatible vocal technique – the Fitzmaurice Technique (c) – are taught to expand the actor’s options for self coaching.
Spring 2013 8wk Session
Registration deadline: Limited Space available. Register ASAP
Dates: April 10th – June 5th (no class on April 24th) 6:30pm – 8pm
Tuition: $350
ON CAMERA COMMERCIAL AUDITION TECHNIQUE WITH PAUL URCIOLI
Finding it stressful trying to be a truthful actor while auditioning to sell laundry detergent? Investment opportunities? Fast food? This is a class where every student practices on camera every week using actual commercial copy. The class will focus on everything from the slate to solo spots, working as a duo or with a group and improvising while stressing how to remain truthful and real in this very specific environment. Limited enrollment, instructor approval required.
5 Weeks, Tuition $350
Tuesday PM: Spring 2013 Dates TBD (7:30pm – 10:00pm)
Paul Urcioli is an actor, director and producer. Film: Morning Glory, 3 Backyards, The Killing Floor, Off the Black, Wait Here. TV: Unforgettable, Homeland, Royal Pains, Six Degrees, Conviction, Law and Orders, Sex and the City, All My Children, The Guiding Light and a recurring role on the CBS drama Queens Supreme. Commercial: National spots include State Farm, MasterCard, Barclays, Downy, Healthy Choice, Barclays, Progresso, Verizon Fios, eBay, Nike, Fidelity, KY, FedEx Office, Sheraton, Comcast, Las Vegas, Staples, Delta, Canon, Volkswagen, IBM, CNN, Brown Co.www.paulurcioli.com
SUZUKI/VIEWPOINTS WEEKEND INTENSIVE WITH KELLY MAURER
Kelly Maurer is offering a Viewpoints and Suzuki weekend intensive designed for those who have had past experience with the training (but also appropriate for beginners). This workshop will be a six hour immersion in these two rigorous forms of physical/vocal training for actors. On day one the basic fundamentals of both disciplines will be visited (or re-visited) and on day two all of the vocabulary will be used to build and explore movement improv. The Suzuki training is a rigorous physical and vocal discipline which strives to restore the wholeness of the body as a tool for theatrical expression. Born out of the postmodern dance world, Viewpoints training explores movement improv and develops physical articulation, as well as strength of movement and speaking. Please come prepared to move (no jeans), and bring in 8 lines of memorized text of your choice.
Weekend, Tuition: $150
Saturday and Sunday: Fall Dates TBD (11am – 2pm)