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Unleash your inner performer with a wide range of acting classes in NYC. From beginner to advanced, learn the art of acting, improve your confidence, and develop your storytelling skills in a supportive environment.

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Therapeutic Scene Study

NY Creative Arts Therapists @ 190 N 10th St, Brooklyn, NY

Using Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie, this therapeutic scene study group invites adults to explore creative problem solving, relationships, and emotional expression through drama therapy. Each week, the group will read and act in scenes from the play, rehearse new roles and build relationships through drama. Each group participant will play different roles, as well as engage in the group process as an active audience member....

(3) All levels 18 and older
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$100

9 sessions

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Find Your Missing Link Seminar

The Savvy Actor @ 242 West 36th St, New York, NY

Join NYC’s Branding and Marketing experts for this free hour - and learn what no other “acting business” workshop is talking about. By now you’ve figured out that being a working actor is much more than going to auditions and mailing out head shots. This free seminar is your answer, your reality check, your key to what it takes to get your acting career out of limbo and on the fast track to living your dreams! Please note: This workshop...

All levels 18 and older
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Tween Acting Intensive (Ages 10-13)

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY

The Barrow Group's One Week Acting Intensives will introduce students to the Barrow Group approach through ensemble building games, improv, script analysis, monologues, scene work, film/tv on camera acting, as well as rehearsal and performance tools. The program culminates in a showing of scene work in the Barrow Group Studio Theatre.

(66) All levels 10 - 13 years old
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$700

5 sessions

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One Week Explorations in Acting (Ages 5-6)

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY

Our one-week Summer Acting Camp for Children (Ages 5–6) is a great introduction to the art of theatre and storytelling. Students not only explore acting, but also write, create props, and design costumes. Students begin with ensemble building games and theatre building games, and move on to improv, story structure activities, movement, and scene study. The camp culminates in a showing in The Barrow Group’s Studio Theatre. Students should bring...

(66) All levels 5 - 6 years old
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$650

5 sessions

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Intro to Voice Over – On Mic and In Practice

The Brick @ 628 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Did you start VO as an actorly pivot in pandemic times? Are you a VO actor who needs practice and critique? Do you wonder what is missing or what you could do differently when you go out for a VO role? Theresa Buchheister and Ryan William Downey are excited to get back to teaching in-person and on mic. In this 3 hour workshop, we will do a brief intro into the field (what is the difference between audiobook, cartoon, podcast, video game, commercial?)...

Beginner 18 and older
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Actor Craft Expansion Program

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 520 8th Avenue, New York, NY

This follow up program from our 1-Year Professional Acting Program is designed for Barrow Group students who are well versed in our approach and tools, to further supplement and expand their training. This program focuses on training in voice, movement, dialect, transformation work via scene study, and performance.

(66) All levels 18 and older
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$2,500

41 sessions

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Intro to Clown

Brooklyn Comedy Collective @ 137 Montrose Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Unleash your inner comedian and discover the joy of physical comedy, character development, and improvisation in this interactive course.

(4) All levels 16 and older
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$375

7 sessions

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Kids Company The Improvisational Actor (Ages 5 - 12)

West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY

The Improvisational Actor is a new class for ages 6-14 that focueses on the acting, characterization, and improvisation skill building.  The Improvisational Actor includes rehearsing scripted scenes as well as developing student-devised material and culminates in a performance in the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater.

(30) All levels 6 - 14 years old
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$625

9 sessions

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Kids Company Showcase (Ages 6 - 14 years)

West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY

Registration due at the first Parent’s Meeting. Students enroll in one session per week. Showcase programs culminate in a musical review/cabaret style presentation. With an ensemble focus, the Showcase is an excellent place for newer performers to develop skills, confidence, and technique in a supportive, dynamic, and fun environment. Location Note: All classes are located at the West Side YMCA at 5 West 63rd Street. Students will need to check...

(30) All levels 6 - 14 years old
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$1,250

23 sessions

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The Symposium: Academic Stand-Up

Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY

Kick those boring old lectures goodbye! Discover a new side to Academia in this evening of research-inspired stand-up comedy. Academics, researchers, teachers, & comics take the mic to give life to those dusty textbooks and show you what research & teaching is really like. From statistics to evolution, philosophy, history, and more, come for the laughs and the cutting-edge ideas, stay for the laughs and the cutting-edge ideas. ...

(25) All levels 21 and older
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Freeing the Natural Voice: Level 1

Linklater Center @ 939 8th Ave, New York, NY

Relaxation and release is essential to opening, freeing and ultimately  strengthening your voice. In this initial class, you are becoming aware of how your voice and body carry habitual tensions and beginning to undo them. This is the start to freeing your breath  and vibrations of sound. As your voice begins to loosen up, the next step is to develop resonance by sensing and spreading the vibrations through the bony hollows of your body....

(31) Beginner 18 and older
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$290

8 sessions

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Semi-Private Kids Coaching Classes 1-Hour Intensives

Actors Technique NY Kids & Teens @ 520 8th Avenue, New York, NY

This Semi-Private Class Session allows for more concentrated work with our talented young actors.  All actors will work each week, and have work to do during the week in preparation.  We limit this semi-private hour to partnered work to work more heavily on reaction and external focus. In this class, we dig deeper into script analysis, character development and internalization. Through partnered exercises and the repetition of meisner...

(7) All levels 9 - 11 years old
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$645

10 sessions

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Young Douglas: Hello Sailor

Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY

Young Douglas is a sketch comedy team full of babes and they're inviting all fellow hotties to join them for a night of laughs. It is composed of Evan Forde Barden, Fallon Boles, Andrea Coleman, Laura Fabius, Dylan Fugel, Devin Gant, Adrienne Ianniciello, Jeffrey Kitt, David Morton, Carly Silverman & Darrow Thomas. They have been, at various points, a Maude Team, a Zoom Team, a Digital Team, and Teamsters. Think of them as an 11-headed comedy...

(25) All levels 21 and older
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$18.80
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Week 1: TV/Film On-Camera Act & Audition Camp

Actors Technique NY Kids & Teens @ 520 8th Avenue, New York, NY

TV/Film On-Camera Act & Audition Camp Comprehensive Training w/ Final Agent Hour It’s the beginning of summer and time to hone those summer chops for summer auditions!  We begin our warm season with a comprehensive program for all ages, culminating with an agent guest showcase.  ATNY’s Professional Summer In-Studio Camps are designed to be flexible, comprehensive and career enhancing.  Each camp week consists of 8 practical...

(7) All levels 7 - 17 years old
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$745

5 sessions

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Full Day Young Actor Intensive 3-Core Classes. Your Best Value. (Ages 7-11)

Actors Technique NY Kids & Teens @ 519 8th Ave, New York, NY

Experience a day of intensive actor growth and friendship bonding at Actors Technique NY Kids & Teens. Our exclusive coaches will guide you through classes in Act & Audition Technique, Improvisation for TV/Film, and Commercials & Voice Overs. Discover how each class builds upon the others to create a comprehensive learning experience.

(7) All levels 7 - 11 years old
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$1,350

7 sessions

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Comedy as a Tool of Journalism

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY

We will examine how comedy is useful to provide perspective and to meet journalism's core mission: to call bullshit.  Every student will be expected to bring to class an example of comedy-as-journalism that informs the audience. We will examine the uses of various flavors of comedy -- satire, ridicule, irony -- and also examine the ethical boundaries. And we will hear from a comedy writer who writes about the news.

(64) All levels 18 and older
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$69

2 sessions

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Tada! - 1, 2, 3 ACT(ion)

Kids at Art @ 1412 2nd Ave, New York, NY

Using the foundations of creative musical and dramatic play, this Pre-K/K class supports a child’s interests in pretend play while developing skills in characterization, coordination, cooperative play and musicianship. Professionals from the renowned Tada! Youth Theater will work with children to build singing, acting and dancing skills. A parent or caretaker must accompany each child. 

(1) All levels 4 - 5 years old
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$615

14 sessions

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Tada! - Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance!

Kids at Art @ 1412 2nd Ave, New York, NY

A Musial Theater skills-building class that focuses on the core skills of singing, acting, and dancing. Learn popular Broadway songs, plus one-of-a-kind songs from Tada!’s original musicals. This class includes exploration in character development using theater games plus song and dance numbers. Professionals from the renowned Tada! Youth Theater will work with children to build singing, acting and dancing skills. A parent or caretaker must...

(1) All levels 6 - 8 years old
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$615

14 sessions

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Weekend Film/TV Acting for Tweens (Ages 10-13)

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY

This ten-week on-camera course focuses on film & television and specific tools used in the medium. Students will work on monologues, scenes, film terms, and understanding how a set works. In this class students have the opportunity to watch playback of their work. This class teaches our specific approach to storytelling, and introduces students to the same tools that our adult professional actors work with. What makes The Barrow...

(66) All levels 10 - 13 years old
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$425

10 sessions

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After School Explorations in Acting for Kids (Ages 7-9)

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY

Our Explorations in Acting for Kids (7-9 years old) classes encourage spontaneity, simplicity and fun. This after school class teaches our specific approach to storytelling, and introduces students to the same tools that our adult professional actors work with. We believe that to act is to PLAY, and that students learn the most in an atmosphere of relaxed positive reinforcement. We begin with ensemble building games, story structure...

(66) Beginner 7 - 9 years old
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$425

10 sessions

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