1. Chapter Twelve Training School Profiles

2. Presented by Matt, Larry, & Aleesha

3. Actor’s Studio New School For Social Research New York, NY
• Tuition: $16,040 per year
• M.F.A. Three year program
• The program is heavily based on Stanislavski’s three books, with
each year corresponding with each title.
• The first year is titled “An Actor Prepares” and focuses on the Actor’s
work of their own self. All first year students take the same courses.
• The second year is titled “Building a Character.” During this time,
students with different theatre majors, such as acting, directing, and
playwriting separate into various courses that correspond with their
major.

4. Actor’s Studio New School For Social Research New York, NY
• The third year is titled “Creating a Role” and combines the work of
all theatre disciplines. Students with focuses on acting star in works
directed by students who focus and directing. These works are also
penned by students who focus on play writing.
• The program focuses on the methods of Stanislavski, Sanford
Meisner, Strasberg, and Stella Adler while offering courses in period
style, theatre history, movement, and voice as well.

5. American Conservatory Theatre
• San Fransisco, CA
• M.F.A. Three year Program
• As one of the most competitive and prestigious acting schools in the
country, A.C.T. accepts only eight students for each incoming class.
These companies of actors will work, perform, and develop together
as an ensemble
• In their first year, student’s learn and practice techniques to develop
“the authentic and imaginative use of self in all acting work.”
•The second year focuses on creating character, with an emphasis on
classical and dramatic texts.

6. American Conservatory Theatre
• The primary focus of the third year is public performances in which
students combine the previous two years of their education.
• During this third year, students star in “A Christmas Carol,” and
several other production in the bay area. During this year student’s
are allowed to audition for other A.C.T. professional productions.
• Courses focus on voice, speech, speech, movement (Alexander
technique, physical theater, circus skills), singing, text analysis, and
theater history, as well as t'ai chi, stage combat, and improvisation.

7. University of California San Diego
• Tuition: $24,958 per year
• Classes focus on movement, speech, and learning to work from the
outside-in.
• Classes include playwriting, makeup, theater sound, acting
ensemble, improvisation, and many others
• For the improvisation class students have the chance to perform in
front of many different crowds
• All auditions for plays take place in the Galbraith Hall, and not all
auditions are for just UCSD, but for all San Diego theater companies.

8. Herbert Berghof Studios (HB Studios), New York, NY
• Full time tuition: $1,666 per year
• Private acting studio created by Herbert Berghof in 1945
• Most famous for the presence of actress and teacher Uta Hagen
• Teachers focus on actions, objectives, circumstances, truthful
behavior, concentration, imagination, sense and emotional energy,
and improvisation.
• Classes are divided between beginning and advanced and then
technique and scene.
• Curriculum includes directing courses, Shakespeare classes, Linklater
vocal technique, and yoga.
• Auditions are required to get into any classes. .

9. Herbert Berghof Studios (HB Studios), New York, NY
• Curriculum includes directing courses, Shakespeare classes,
Linklater vocal technique, and yoga.
• Auditions are required to get into any classes. .

10. The Juilliard School, New York, NY
• Tuition: $13,000 per year
• Co-founded in 1968 by Michel Saint-Denis and John Houseman
• The school is a combination of both their approaches to acting
• Saint-Denis was influenced by the ideas and work of French theater
artist Jacques Copeau who felt that the actor’s job was to serve the
literary form created by the writer.
• Saint-Denis strove for the idea of an actor being comfortable with
many different styles of world theater, which is still the focus at Juilliard

11. The Juilliard School, New York, NY
• John Houseman brought an American approach to Saint-Denis’s
ideas. Together the training is based of eclecticism incorporating the
views of two different traditions.
• Juilliard is a four year program leading to a B.F.A. or a Certificate.
• Voice training is given almost everyday for four years, as well as the
Alexander movement technique which is taught three days a week.
• Juilliard feels that if an actor can master the classics he/she can do
anything

12. The New Actor’s Workshop, New York, NY
• Tuition: $5,100
• New training institution founded by three former students of
University of Chicago- Mike Nichols, George Morrison, and Paul Sills
• Nichols is one the original members of Second City theater. He
teaches a weekly class to second year students depending on his
availability. He has studied with Lee Strasberg and has numerous
amounts of training in improvisation
• Morrison was also a student of Strasberg. He taught at Juilliard. He
teaches acting classes for both first and second year students

13. The New Actor’s Workshop, New York, NY
• Sills is the son of Theater Game creator Viola Spolin. He was co-
founder of Compass Theater and the director of Story Theater. He
teaches intensive five week courses that concludes in a performance
of a Story Theater by the second year students
•Two year training program gives equal value to Stanislavski/
Strasberg based training and improvisation work of Viola Spolin.
• School offers both training in Alexander and Feldenkrais body
technique, speech, and Linklater vocal technique

14. New York University Tisch School of the Arts
• Tuition: $19,000 per year
• Three year program and offers an M.F.A. in acting
• First year focuses on freeing the body, voice, emotions and
imagination
• Second year focuses on textual analysis and character
development. Also students appear in productions
• Third year performance is the main focus

15. New York University Tisch School of the Arts
• The program includes movement, voice training, speech training,
make and movement
• Recent NYU graduates have had tremendous success in
professional acting world

16. Northwestern University Department of Theater
• Evanston, IL
• Tuition $17,000 per year-Based on undergraduate program
•Undergrad's leave with Bachelor of Science degree in Speech
•Within the School of Speech is the Department of Theater
• Acting courses are offered in a three year program and focus on
basic techniques, study of plays, and the performance demands of
different styles of acting-Many dance classes and fencing are taught
• Voice classes are required and mime work is also taught
• There are six mainstage productions a year

17. Northwestern University Department of Theater
• The school emphasizes on a mainly a liberal arts education
• Some special programs at the school are the Children’s Theater Tour
and Participation Theater.
• The Children’s Tour lets actors experience the demands of the long
run and also what it’s like to perform for children
• They also offer a Certificate in Music Theater; training includes
courses in acting and characterization with classes in music skills,
voice classes and music theater techniques

18. Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting
• Stella Adler was an American actress
and an acclaimed acting teacher,
who founded the Stella Adler
Conservatory in New York City in 1949,
where she taught the Method acting
technique of acting for over four
decades. She was born February 10,
1901 and died Decemebr 21, 1992.
• Adler was the only American actor to
be instructed in the art of acting by
Konstantin Stanislavski himself.

19. Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting
• Her acting school is located in New York and in Los Angeles. Tuition
for the 3-year program in New York is $7,000 per year or $5,000 for the
Evening Conservatory (for students who cannot commit to a day
program). The training at the Conservatory focuses on voice, speech,
movement, mask, improvisation, physical acting, actions,
circumstances, justifications, subtext, character elements, theater
history text analysis and scene study. The studio in Los Angeles focuses
on the same, but is taught in an intensive workshop format as there
are no academic programs designed just yet. The workshops coast
anywhere between $575-$605

20. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• The Department of Theatre offers a comprehensive array of theatre
programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels while
exploring virtually every academic discipline through some 4,000
different courses in more than 150 fields.
• Each year, the Department of Theatre presents a complete series of
plays at Krannert Center, consisting of a wide variety of genres to
familiarize students with the full scope of professional theatre.

21. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• The M.F.A. program here takes three years to complete. The first
semester covers improvisation and Stanislavski's methods as they
apply to the plays of Antone Chekov. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was
a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to
be one of the greatest short-story writers in world literature. In
America, Chekhov's reputation began its rise slightly later, partly
through the influence of Stanislavski's system of acting, with its notion
of subtext: "Chekhov often expressed his thought not in speeches,"
wrote Stanislavski, "but in pauses or between the lines or in replies
consisting of a single word, the characters often feel and think things
not expressed in the lines they speak."

22. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Tuition for non-residents for the B.F.A. is $24,8074 per year (four year
program) and for residents its $10,372.
• www.illinois.edu
• (217) 333-2371

23. University of Washington
• The University of Washington School of Drama is one of this country's
leading training institutions for theatre artists and scholars. The School
offers a four-year undergraduate liberal arts education, Masters of
Fine Arts degrees in acting, design, and directing, and a PhD in
theatre history and criticism. The Theater program here intergrates the
work of character intentions with dramatic circumstances and
chacter demands. The program attempts to combine the teachings
of Stanislavski with the Suzuki Method.
• (217) 333-2371

24. University of Washington
• The Suzuki Method of Actor Training develops the actor's inner
physical sensibilities, builds the will, stamina and concentration
and include a series of exercises centered around the use of the feet
in relation to one's center. These exercises are designed to throw the
body off center while maintaining a consistent level of energy and
not swaying the upper body. The energy necessary to accomplish this
task is considerable and constitutes a primary focus of this work. In the
course of doing these exercises the body becomes more centered,
and thus changes the manner in which the actor views his/herself
within their body. This change is also related to how the actor views
their work onstage. Issues such as engrained habits become more
apparent as do strengths and weaknesses. By developing the body
awareness of the corporal center, and a consistent level of energy,
primary elements of the actor's awareness are heightened.

25. University of Washington
• www.Washington.edu
• (206) 543-4140

26. University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
• The program here offers both a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. in Acting. Both
Feldenkrais and Alexander movement techniques are available.
• The Alexander Technique (named after Frederick Mathias
Alexander, an Australian actor who cured himself of chronic
hoarseness) is the teaching of proper posture, suggesting that poor
posture and body mechanics prevent the body from functioning
properly. The simple exercises improve balance, posture, and
coordination using gentle hands-on as well as verbal guidance in an
effort to change bad habits that are causing discomfort and pain.

27. University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
• The Feldenkrais Method (developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, who had
a doctorate in physics and was also known as the first European to
earn a black belt in judo) teaches individuals to become more aware
of personal habits of movement and how to improve body motion.
The Feldenkrais Method is designed to alleviate pain, reduce stress,
and enhance self-image. When people have any discomfort, they
tend to hold their bodies in altered positions in order to protect the
offending area. These positions become habit and often lead to
other aggravating symptoms.
•The professional Training Program is affiliated with the Northern Stage
Company so students have the chance to work alongside
experienced professionals. Members of the training program have the
opportunity to perform in different countries around the world through
the World Theater Training Institute.

28. University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
• www.uwm.edu
• (414) 229-4947

29. Yale University
• The Yale School of Drama is one of the nation's most prestigious and
successful training grounds for all professional theater disciplines, from
playwriting and acting, to design, directing, dramaturgy,
management, and production. Angela Bassett, Charles S. Dutton,
Paul Giamatti, Paul Newman, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, John
Turturro, and Sigourney Weaver and many other well known
professionals are among the many celebrated artists who began their
careers as drama students at Yale.

30. Yale University
• The program focus on realistic acting, teaching the basic
techniques of Stanislavski including actions, circumstances, and
objectives. Voice, speech and movement, are constants throughout
the training program. Robert Lewis taught here from 1967 to 1976.
Robert Lewis was an American actor, director, teacher, author and
founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947. He was an
early proponent of the Stanislavski System of acting technique and a
founding member of New York's revolutionary Group Theatre in the
1930s. His emphasis on a seamless melding of inner and outer
technique is still a hallmark in this Drama Department.

31. Yale University
• www.yale.edu
• (203)432-1507