Improv 12/1/12 Paul and April

12/1/12 Improv Paul private

Christmas Improv 12/1/12 April private

Actors Prep Carlsbad Improvs 11/17/12

Actors Prep Improvs 11/17/12

Actors Prep Improvs 11/17/12

Actors Prep Improvs 11/17/12

Free Introductory Acting Class Saturday November 17th 11-2

Free Introductory Acting Class Saturday November 17th 11-2
Veteran L.A Acting Coach Andrew Benne will be opening a new studio Actors Prep in Carlsbad Ca this November. Mr.Benne chose Carlsbad so he can connect to Actors in all of Greater Sa

n Diego, Orange County and Riverside area with easy freeway access. Classes are rooted in the Meisner Technique with Stella Adler and Uta Hagen disciplines. Classes are intense , personal, individualized hand on training for the Actor who truly wants to reach full potential. All levels accepted just must have commitment, Passion and Courage. Free Introductory class Saturday November 17th from 11 -2 Come experience the possibilities for your growth as an Actor. Limited seats available Act Now call Andrew Benne @ 818 521-5336 or email actorscoach@yahoo.com.

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Actors Prep Veteran L.A Acting Coach Andrew Benne Opens New Studio in Carlsbad Ca

Actors Prep new Carlsbad Studio Location is locked. Awesome warehouse Space@ 2768 Loker Avenue West Carlsbad, CA 92010. Opening Soon!

Veteran L.A Acting Coach Andrew Benne opening new studio Actors Prep in Carlsbad, CA

Veteran L.A Acting Coach Andrew Benne will be opening a new studio Actors Prep in Carlsbad Ca this November. Mr.Benne chose Carlsbad so he can teach Actors in all of Greater San Diego, Orange County and Riverside County with easy freeway 

access. Classes are rooted in the Meisner Technique with Adler and Hagen disciplines. Classes are intense , personal individualized hand on training for the Actor who truly wants to reach full potential. All levels accepted just must have commitment, Passion and Courage.

 Free Introductory class will be offered in early November date time tba. for more info Please contact Andrew Benne @ actorscoach@yahoo.com or call 818 521-5336 

Actors Fall Season is Here!

Skype Private Coaching with Veteran Acting Coach Andrew Benne

Skype Private Coaching sessions with Veteran L.A Acting Coach Andrew Benne . Actors feel this is the most effective method for private coaching, The reality of the camera that skpe provides, and Andrew Benne's eye is a winning combination. Skype Coaching cost less than a live Private Coaching in Los Angeles . Auditions ,Role Preparation or weekly lessons are also available . Skype name actingteacher contact Andrew Benne @ actorscoach@yahoo.com to set up a private now.
$65.00 one hour coaching $200.00 four one hour lessons.
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Actors Prep .Meisner Acting Foundation Class coming to Carlsbad Ca. with Veteran L.A Coach Andrew Benne

Actors Prep coming this Fall to Carlsbad CA. Progressive Acting Classes rooted in the Meisner Technique with Veteran L.A Coach Andrew Benne . 7 week Foundation class starts in October. Limited Enrollment .

"The Reality of Doing" as taught by Andrew Benne. Actor Presentation with AWS Actors Friday Night @ 7:00 P.M

I will be taking a sabbatical from the Actors Workout Studio and proud to present a demonstration of the Level 2 curriculum of scenes and exercises, that I developed for this 

wonderful school. Demonstrations will be performed by Actors who I had the privilege of teaching in the last 3 plus years. I would love for all our Actors to attend and support the studio. Fran teaching Level 1 actors with his fine expertise, inspired a new direction taken to develop a new Level 2 that has immersed Actors growth at such a high rate. I look forward to returning to the Actors Workout Studio and crafting more specialized semesters in the future. Thanks to all my students in all the levels of classes who schlepped all their shit from home to the Studio every week. To the commitment put into all the original improv work and tireless Role preparation done in the advanced classes. It has been a blast, and will really miss you all. I will be exploring new opportunities in San Diego as well as teaching and operating Actors Prep for a new community of Actors. Thanks to everyone @ AWS,, So come out Friday and support your peers.

With much Love,

Andrew Benne






Level 2 Demonstration Class Friday evening 9/7/12 7:00 P.M
Course description : " The Reality of Doing " Realistically doing through Physical Destination and authentic Relationship.

1) " Talking to Yourself " Physical Destination with urgency, activity and preparation. " Relationship with self and own environment "Leslie Morris

2) Personal ObjectNicole Leonetti, and Chris Schumway

3) DUO Independent Activities With Ed's 10 Lines and Monologue with given circumstances, relationship and conflicts.Sheryl Kramer and K.C White

4) Phone Scene unrehearsed sense of place and environment with activity " Changes in Self "Margie Ward

5) Improv with Physical Destination and Ed's 10 lines and MonologueCarolyn Gilroy, Nathan Stayton

6) Improv with built in physical destination, realistic relationship and Independent Activity.Katy Pollock and JOAN Elizabeth Kennnedy

7) 3 Actor Improv with physical destination, relationship and urgency. Soup to nuts. Entrance all the way to exit.
David Shackleford, Martin McSweeney, Ali Kendall

Best Meisner Technique Door exercise scene ever caught on film to date . That's emotional preparation and primal relationship.

Best Meisner Technique Door exercise scene ever caught on film to date . That's emotional preparation and primal relationship.

Actors Workout Studio NoHo Arts District Los Angeles

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“… The life of an artist is a path, a continual journey.  There is no end goal, only a series of experiences that fuel that journey.  The growth of any artist is directly related to the risk, commitment, and discipline toward  their work.  The Actors Workout Studio is committed to the development and growth of the creative  artist.  This involves professional training, coaching, performing, and  networking opportunities in the entertainment industry…”                                          

                   

Skype Coaching Available with Los Angeles Acting Coach Andrew Benne

Skype Private Coaching sessions available for only $ 75.00 for an hour with Andrew Benne personally . This is more effective and cost less than a live Private Coaching in Los Angeles . Local Actors choose to coach this way with Andrew Benne because of the camera reality skype provides. Skype name actingteacher contact Andrew Benne @ actorscoach@yahoo.com to set up a Skpe private Coaching.

Rene Russo @ the Actors Workout Studio speaking to fellow studio members fall 2011

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March 7 Th Studio Speaker Greg Jbara @ the Actors Workout Studio

Tonight  @ The Actors Workout Studio Greg Jbara came and shared his life as an Actor to studio members and busted out the Tony award too .sweet. Thanks Greg 

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"Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting -- intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen." 
-Uta Hagen-

Sneak Peak pt,3 Andrew Benne Acting Class

                   
         

Sneak Peak of Acting Coach Andrew Benne giving Private info to actors for scene

As Sneak peek of Studying Acting with Andrew Benne

It's the Actors Work that's important!

‎"You have the opportunity to literally impact the lives of people if you work on material that has integrity. But today, most actors simply want to be famous. Well, being an actor was never supposed to be about fame and money. Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity." -Sandy Meisner

How I Became an Acting Coach

How I became an Acting Coach Are you a Meisner Coach? This is a question I am often asked both on line and at the studio from actors who are auditing my Classes. The answer is yes and no . My Work is very rooted in the meisner technique and in fact I had no massive breakthroughs and giant revelations about my self as an actor, until I studied meisner. Prior to studying Meisner I had gone through the stella adler school and got the wonderful chance to work with her personally. After that I had worked with a very well known method coach who specialized in emotional exercises, but I was totally lost doing scene work in that class and realized that I was more in my head as an actor than ever and it was time to leave. Don't get me wrong , I don't regret the time lost doing these emotional exercises, because I believe this is important to understand ones emotional instrument, but that teacher thinks he is a good acting teacher and I think this coach is a good emotional tool and instrument teacher. So ,then my agent at the time had strongly suggested that I work with a coach named Ed Kaye-Martin , he was a teacher who was once a Neighborhood Playhouse teacher trained by Sandy Meisner. I began working with him several years after he had left the Neighborhood Playhouse, by this point he had changed and modified some of sandy's work. He felt that the repetition exercise actually kept actors in their heads because the actors were constantly nodding their heads during the exercise. He believed that emotional life was on the body and that the emotional life in the original repetition exercise was not as truthful as people seemed to think it was. He also taught exactly what emotional life was and more important how to find yours. He also invented the improvs an extension of the activity work, to insure that actors were truly improvising once in text. He once said that he didn't have to spend a year of an actors training teaching them how to knock at a door. There are only a few of us who studied with Ed that actually teach this form of Meisner in the entire country, but this is not all I do in training an actor and I will speak about this in a moment.. After I began teaching, actually ten years later , I studied again myself and learned and researched the work of Uta Hagen and found it fascinating that her work was based on her own experience in the theatre and a technique that worked for her personally. At that time I realized that is exactly what each actor needs is their own technique. Each actor is so unique and works very differently from one another. I had read Respect for Acting back in high school and always loved the book, there are several aspects of Ms.Hagen's technique I adore, and do use in my Technique classes , but much of it is stage technique and not useful for today's actor. I also studied and worked with Sandy Meisner once I began teaching, I felt it was my duty as a coach to work with the direct source of what it was that I was teaching. He was not in the best of health during that period, but he knew good acting, and still called actors on their B.S ,even though it was difficult for him.. That is my studying and researching history. I have been coaching/teaching working actors for over twenty years now, I am finally working on a book ,but make no promises that my book will not change in twenty years. This is because I don't teach or coach the same way I did back then, because acting has changed so much since then. A good coach must know this, and change with the times. I am so fortunate to have worked with the teachers I had. If I had been born any later I would have not gotten that opportunity and I am only 47 years old. I will now finally answer the question, yes I am a meisner based teacher. Many Meisner graduates of other programs really enjoy my classes because they feel it is a much more raw , modern and visceral approach, and made for the advanced actor, but they are talking about my advanced professional classes. First off I work with each student as an individual, what is good for mary may not be good for george. Everything done in my classes leads to doing scene work. I have written over 3,000 personal improv situations for my students through the years. When I work with a new actor I begin two things, getting them out of their heads and into their body . I get them doing the doings, because acting is the reality of doing. I start them on having vivid day dreams and emotional preparation These first steps the actor takes in my classes come from hagan an meisner. They are doing Raw Moments a one word repetition and human experience with their partner..They are doing physical destinations, private scenes knowing where they came from and where they are going in the scene. Independent Activities and Knock at the door entrances ,sometimes with only 10 lines to communicate with. They are learning about actable actions and when to let go of those actions based on what is actually happening to them in the moment. They are finding their own emotional vocabulary and how to use it to trigger their emotional life. My time spent with Stella Adler has helped me to communicate what is IMAGINATION and how important it is to build as an actors muscle. The improv work that I teach is about the world of the script and your realistic relationships with others , the concept being that , This is Really Happening in this moment in the here and now, and the consequences are high .Learning how to emotionally prepare for a script , and how to let preparation come out in the moment . Meisner said that any idea in acting is a bad one, and I AGREE with this theory one hundred percent . An actor can not act from an idea its logical and unactable, an actor can only act from what is specific to them personally..In my studio we deal with no generals only specifics. Training an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances many coaches do, but I have found this process to be different for each actor. So I am a little bit of all my teachers, but I am mostly about the actor that is right in front of my face. How do I help them grow and and become a better actor? How can I help them make their weakness into their strengths, and a strong sense of themselves and their own instrument. How can I help them to get more acting jobs by working with their persona and their craft? ok nuff said for now I will shut up with this.

Pilot Season Half Price Special

Pilot Season half price special $75.00 1 hour Private Coaching with Acting Coach Andrew Benne . Limited appointments available during season because of Mr. Benne's current schedule. Call for appointment 818 521-5336