Three levels · weekly · where everyone starts
Scene Study
Break down scenes and characters, learn your strengths, and build a character again and again until it’s second nature. Every new student completes one round.
Acting studio · Los Angeles & online
You build the Person.
You build the Person.
You play the Character.
Our technique is rooted in empathy. Before you say a line, you answer one question — what would have had to have happened to me, in my life, as me, to behave and think like this character?
Act I · The principle
Two things, kept separate on purpose.
What you carry
The Person
The whole human being, birth to death. Every chapter, every room, every decision they never revisited. Most of it is never in the script. You build it anyway — it’s the pressure behind everything they do.
What they see
The Character
The snapshot. Only the film, the play, the episode — only the scenes they’re in. A cross-section of the Person, taken during the days the story happens to cover.
BirthThe window the script showsDeath
The audience meets the Character. The actor carries the Person.
“Assign the technique to the actor — not the actor to the technique.”
Our belief
No two architects design in the same way, and they shouldn’t. The most unique thing you bring to a role is you and your point of view. We give you a “base,” a foundation, then help you build on that foundation until it’s yours.
Act II · Where every student starts
Three tools.
Each is a base — it works on its own, but it’s meant to be built on until the technique is exclusive to you.
I
The Five Stages of the Actor
Where you are in your own growth — so you know what to work on next.
- Understanding who you are
- Learning what works for you
- Active incorporation
- Becoming efficient
- Understanding your base
II
The Five-Step Base
How you take any role from the page to the performance.
- The Script — understanding
- The Character — empathy
- The Execution — the portrayal
- The Change — taking direction
- Self-Trust — the engine
III
The Thirteen Questions
We overthink, underthink, and miss what’s under our noses. The questions make sure you build the character thoroughly.
Who are they? Who are you? Where are you? When are you? What do I want? Where am I going? Where have I been? What made you this way?
Act III · Classes
In person or online.
Tuesdays7 – 10 pm
Sundays3:30 – 6:30 pm
Weekly
Audition Technique
The performance that gets the job. Owning the room, what to say, making choices fast, and self-tapes that hold up.
One day · weekend · six weeks
Intensives
Start fresh, or finally start. Short, focused runs on one or two subjects — or six weeks with multiple teachers, from script to performance.
By invitation only
Master Class
For advanced students. Workshop exercises, scene work and guided personal development into the core of the craft. It can’t be requested — you’re invited.
IncludedEvery student works in the TAP Workbook and keeps their Persons, roles and auditions in the Character Vault — so the work you do in class is still there when the next audition lands.
Curtain · Start here
Understand who you are.
Understand who you are.
Then the character.
- One
Talk to us
Tell us where you are with your craft and where you want to be. Let’s find out why you’re not there, and what you need to get there.
- Two
Start moving forward
Scene study keeps the blood flowing. It helps to show you the holes you need to fill.
- Three
Build your own technique
Move through the levels, add Audition Technique and intensives, grow into the artist you want to be.