You will get pushed — in a positive way.
Everyone gets the one-on-one attention they need. Alex takes a personal stake in every student. You’ll learn your strengths, your weaknesses, and exactly what you have to work on to reach your goals.
You learn from your peers as much as from your teachers. We encourage open learning — everyone has something to offer.
Find out where you rank by Hollywood standards without having to go to Hollywood. You get an honest assessment of what to work on, so you can build a career plan that lets you make the most of every opportunity.
From Los Angeles to London, major roles are now cast from self-tapes. With no casting director in the room to give adjustments, your choices carry the tape. A professional, well-thought-out self-tape lets you submit for every role — including ones casting out of LA.
What to do in the room, how to control it, and how to be at your best every time. Opportunities don’t come every day — be ready so you don’t waste them when they do.
A monologue takes a different mindset from a scene with a partner or a group. Learn to get the most out of both, lock down your performance, and give everything you have.
If you can’t get into the room, you can’t show them what you have. Learn how to stand out on submissions in an industry that never stops changing.
Knowing when, how and how fast to grow beyond your market is everything. Learn what to look for and when to go for it — leaping too soon can be worse than not leaping at all.
Both are performance, but only some of the rules transfer. Understand which ones do, and make the move — in either direction — a smooth one.
Possibly the most important thing we cover. Too many actors quit because they didn’t prepare financially for a life in the arts. Learn how to survive while keeping the time and focus to see your goals through.
Worked in casting at Betty Mae alongside Mary Vernieu and Anne McCarthy on over 50 studio features — Any Given Sunday, Requiem for a Dream, Spy Kids, Scary Movie. Has coached clients including Jeremy Renner, Adrianne Palicki, Edward Furlong and Fiona Gubelmann.
Still a working actor, in studio films including Deuces Wild and Road Trip and on television — most recently Peacock’s The Paper and Apple TV+’s Palm Royale.
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