ONLINE ACTING CLASSES

Live and Highly Participatory

on Zoom

Instructor: Linda Ann Watt

Member SAG-AFTRA, past member AEA, SAG-AFTRA Signatory Producer, MFA Theatre Performance Pedagogy, Instructor—Georgia State University for Film, Media and Theatre, Guest Instructor SAG-AFTRA Conservatory Atlanta, 2015 Tony Award Nominee for Excellence in Theatre Education, Producer “The Method based on Stanislavski and Strasberg” with Shelley Winters, Cloris Leachman and Martin Landau.

Please email or call for more information

 watt@AcademyofActing.org

818-312-4467

Online classes are limited to 10 students

Introductory Master Class - 1 Session

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Introductory Master Class with Linda Ann Watt

1 Session

Explore tools including relaxation, sense memory, “what if,” improvisation, 4th wall, personalization using substitution, and cold reading for camera. This Zoom online highly participatory class allows the actor to experience and become comfortable performing in front of a camera including finding eye-line and physicality on camera. The is the first session of a seven session weekly series of classes. Each class builds on the class before. tuition for the additional six classes is $300. 

Tuition: $65 for 1-session

2 hours of intense training

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Master Class Acting & Monologue Study using "Method" Techniques with Linda Ann Watt

7-Weekly Sessions Monday Days 1-3PM ET or

7-Weekly Sessions, Monday Nights 7-9PM ET

Explore tools to bring emotional connection to character including relaxation, sense memory, voice, improvisation, private moment, and in-depth scene and monologue study using substitution, intention, personalization, 4th wall, creative hiding and physical action. The sessions also cover on-camera cold-reading (spokesperson/and monologue) and the business of acting. Zoom online classes allow the actor to experience and become comfortable performing in front of a camera including finding eye-line and physicality on camera. 

Tuition: $335 for 7-sessions

14-hours of intense training

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Workshop Advanced for the Working Actor

Ongoing Class (by invitation only) Wednesday nights, 7-9PM ET

This class is for the professional actor working in film, television and theatre who wants to hone their acting skills to get more acting roles. This is an ongoing acting class meeting weekly. Students may book in/out of classes monthly.

$145 for 4 weekly sessions.

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Uploading Auditioning Class with Linda Ann Watt and Cory Riback

8-Weekly Sessions, Tuesday Nights 7-9PM ET

Pre-reads and most auditions for film, television, and theatre are now conducted online. This is a perfect time to perfect auditioning skills for uploading auditions to online platforms. In this ZOOM class, students receive lessons and information to set up the best home taping studio and how to tape material for the best video auditions. Each week students will receive sides (a scene), and be critiqued on the taped audition, which will be uploaded for class each week. Students learn –

  • Information on setting up the best home studio.

  • How to setup camera (iPhone, iPod), lights and microphone.

  • The best background for videoing an audition.

  • Sides (scenes) will be supplied each week for this class.

  • Instruction on how to prepare a scene.

  • How to tape the slate (introduction) and scene.

  • How to edit and upload the scene including separate files for audition and slate.

  • Critique of a new scene, each week on Zoom.

  • List of Casting Websites for online auditions.

Tuition: $350 for 8-sessions – 16-hours of intense training. 

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YOUTH Workshop Advanced for the Young Working Actor

Ongoing Class (by invitation only)

Saturdays, Noon-2PM ET

This class is for the professional young actor working in film, television and theatre who wants to hone their acting skills to get more acting roles. This is an ongoing acting class meeting weekly. Students may book in/out of classes monthly.

Tuition: $145 for 4 weekly sessions.

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YOUTH Master Class Acting & Monologue Study using "Method" Techniques with Linda Ann Watt

Ages 12-16 years old

7-Weekly Sessions, Saturdays 3-5PM ET

This acting class gives fundamentals to teenagers in acting for stage and film performance. Learn the disciplines of Stanislavski, Adler, Meisner, Strasberg, Katselas and Watt. Students are introduced to relaxation, sense memory, “what if” and repetition exercises. Students also learn improvisation, cold reading, on-camera auditioning, actioning, and in-depth scene and monologue study. Parents are invited to the seventh class which covers the “business of acting,” and the culture of the entertainment industry in New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. At the end of the seven sessions of Acting & Monologue Study students will be ready to audition professionally for casting directors.

Tuition: $335 for 7-sessions – 14-hours of intense training.

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