Acting for Beginners Classes
"With a developed imagination there’s no place you can’t go”
Sanford Meisner
We all have to start somewhere. Whether you have never taken an acting class before or need some brushing up on your fundamentals our Acting for Beginners classes offer valuable exercises and performance experience to develop a strong acting foundation. We discovered that most beginning acting classes in Los Angeles (Hollywood) are scene study classes, where students who had never acted before were given a scene, told to perform it, and then critiqued. That is like someone who wants to learn to dance going to ballet class the first day – told to dance Swan Lake and then told how to do the steps afterwards. We want you have the tools to approach a scene first. For this, we offer two different courses: Exploring Technique and The Character in Performance
10 weeks, 1 time a week, 3-hour classes
Next Class January 14th, 2026
Wednesdays at 2:30 pm
Our 10-week Exploring Technique class offers valuable exercises and performance experience to develop a strong acting foundation by exploring the Actor’s Instrument. It gives new actors an understanding of how actors train, use their voice, body, and imagination, and an introduction to the vocabulary that is used in the industry.
January 8 - March 12, 2026
Thursdays at 6:30 pm
The Character in Performance class gives acting students a foundation in creating truthful, dynamic characters for film, television, or stage. It teaches techniques that find the character’s voice, physicality, and psychology. Students work on strengthening their vocal and physical presence, creating characters that are believable yet completely different from themselves. Through exercises, script analyses, monologue and scene work, students acquire a comprehensive set of “acting tools” to draw upon when approaching a role.