A deep look at the close up: We live in a fast, result-driven culture. Our industry is just as frantic. Social media has us pointing phones at ourselves all day. But if we are hoping to learn, or re-investigate screen acting, we need time to explore our relationship to the camera. What is “too big”? What does it feel like to “trust the mic”? How much can you bring to simply listening? This workshop offers a space to slow down and experience these questions for yourself. Through monologues, scene analysis and on-camera rehearsals, you’ll have the opportunity to find you in your character; to breathe and to BE. Created and led by two acclaimed actors each with 30 plus years experience on stage and on both sides of the camera. 

• Learn more about the instructors: Amelia Campbell & Anthony Arkin
• Prerequisite: Open to theater actors with some on camera experience

Held online via Zoom: This is a practical voice over class for actors designed to acquaint you with the specific techniques involved in performing commercial voice over and radio copy. You will practice the basics of mic technique, acquire tools to discover the point of view demanded by the commercial copy, and will learn how to translate that understanding into a compelling performance at an audition or a recording session. You will also gain perspective on demo tapes, casting directors, agents and the audition process.

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• Registration Prerequisite: Open to all.

For professional performers who desire to return to, or maintain an ongoing relationship with a dynamic and fertile state of learning. The goal: to use the specifics of language, action, subtext, circumstance, and relationships in order to connect with the work at the deepest most personal level. You are encouraged to push boundaries with the aim of building ever more complex characters and situations, allowing and exploring what is powerfully, unexpectedly revealed. Expected rehearsal time outside of class: 6+ hours / week

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• Prerequisite: Open to Acting Level Studio Practice (Level 4). New to HB? Submit online for level placement.

This class is designed for early career actors who want to gain a useful understanding of how the acting industry actually works to further their careers. Many early career actors don’t necessarily know what this profession really entails until they are deep into it. Yet art and capital intersect heavily in what we do, and having a better understanding of how things work is essential to gaining a platform. This class is part-acting practice, part-discussion. Based in camera work, you are first invited to navigate the acting part of the work, and from that, open yourself up to a wider discussion of the business aspect of the work. How does employment (or casting) intersect with acting? How can we build actionable goals? How do we navigate work/life balance in a volatile landscape? What is required of us to function at that critical intersection of commerce and art? Are there helpful paradigms that we can individualize? How can we stay away from one-size-fits all advice, quick fixes, and scams?

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• Prerequisite: Open to all

This 5-week workshop is for actors who have some prior experience with Shakespeare but are seeking an introduction to and exploration of Shakespeare's Way With Words. Shakespeare the actor knows how to write for actors-- his characters say what they are thinking and feeling at the very moment they are thinking and feeling it. Shakespeare holds the mirror up to Nature, then and now. Through Shakespeare's monologues and scenes, you'll learn how to liberate the poetry and feeling in yourself by hearing the verse as Shakespeare heard it when writing it: "in character."

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• Prerequisite: Open to all levels, but prior acting training or experience with Shakespeare is required.

This class is for actors who have begun to establish reliable technique and amass a serious résumé. We will continue to hone technique through exercises and we will concern ourselves with the power of rhythm, of silence, of synchronicity, and the random wellsprings that open when the actor is 100% present in the moment. You will receive a link to register for this class upon acceptance of your application. 

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• Registration Prerequisite: Application required. Apply online.

For people who lean toward performing AND writing. Most of us have stories to tell; what makes a personal story dramatic? This workshop challenges the solo performer to discover and craft the dramatic structure of the solo play, not just what is on the stage, but what is on the page; with emphasis on imagination, characterization, story, and plot.

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• Prerequisite: Open to writers with some prior experience: either prior enrollment in a playwriting class or professional experience as a playwright.

This class is for actors who have begun to establish reliable technique and amass a serious résumé. We will continue to hone technique through exercises and we will concern ourselves with the power of rhythm, of silence, of synchronicity, and the random wellsprings that open when the actor is 100% present in the moment. You will receive a link to register for this class upon acceptance of your application. 

• Learn more about the instructor.
• Registration Prerequisite: Application required. Apply online.