Carol Hickey Acting Studio: Austin, Texas

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

FOUNDATION CLASS - REQUIRED CLASS FOR STUDENTS NEW TO OUR STUDIO.
This class lays out both logically and experientially our approach to the work. The student recalls acting as a child’s game played by children’s rules. Identifying the muscles needed to play the game and eliminating concerns of the ego allows students to rediscover the joy of playing pretend. This simple approach is then applied to scripted material using both monologues and scenes from plays.
Taught by Ruben Caballero, Cynthia Fray or Nicholaus Weindel

SCENE STUDY - PRE—REQUISITE FOUNDATION CLASS
This semester class helps students develop and strengthen the muscles of child-like mentality, focus and concentration, vulnerability and imagination to in order to more productively create a second reality. Challenging scenes from plays are assigned and the student is challenged with the discipline of homework.
Taught by Kim Jackson Davis or Sarah Marie Curry

WORKING ACTOR - BY INVITATION ONLY
Professional level training for actors who currently have agency representation and are actively auditioning for theatre, film and television. This class provides a healthy environment for a challenging workout and focuses on accuracy, simplicity, and artistry in the work. This class also serves as an on-camera audition work out and business development class. The combination of attention to both the business and the art helps get the actor to the next level in their career.
Taught by Kim Jackson Davis and Carol Hickey

VOICE AND DICTION
This class helps the actor develop their natural speaking voice and also provides an evaluation of your vocal challenges and offers solutions for you to work with to overcome and issues with clarity and ease in speaking, enunciating and projecting.
Taught by Adam Roberts
Limit 8 students

FILM FIGHT
This class provides 4 weeks of weapons training and safely - how to check, load, draw, hold and fire a pistol, rifle, shotgun and knife. The following 4 weeks you will learn fight choreography and basic stunts and be filmed acting while demonstrating both stunt and weapon capability. Film editing is optional for an additional fee.
Taught by Justin Fischer and Mark Cabrera
Limit 8 students

VOICE OVER
This class will provide students with an overview of the myriad of opportunities to pursue as a professional voice artist. Students will work on copy from Animation, Anime, Video Game, Commercials, and Film scripts and identify their strengths and challenges in each category. Students will learn to effectively audition for VO spots and learn how to set up a home recording studio and put together an effective demo reel.
Taught by Lena Hill
Limit 8 students

IMPROV INTO HOMEWORK
Students will learn to expand and trust their imaginations through working with guided visualization and improvised scenes. Sarah Marie has taken her extensive experience with Improvisation and applied it to helping students to be more refined and productive in their homework. This class is a great class to take in combination with Foundation or Scene Study.
Taught by Sarah Marie Curry
Limit 8 students

DIALECTS
Each course will focus on a specific location and the study of the corresponding dialects. The American South, New York, Midwest, Northeast, England, et al. The study of specific accents expands as Cliff guides the students to a broader understanding and technique of how to master any dialect.
Taught by Cliff Miller
Limit 8 students

THE ARTIST’S WAY - This course is a 12-week journey of recovering the perfect artist within. Using Julia Cameron’s masterpiece of a book, The Artist’s Way, Cynthia guides the students through a series of practices that are essential to artistic health and productivity. This is an amazing investment in yourself that will last a lifetime! Truly transformational.
Taught by Cynthia Fray
Limit 10 students

THE COMMERCIAL GAME - ON ZOOM
Do you ever wonder why the same actors book over and over again? Learn from one of the top booking commercial actors in the business! Oren breaks it down in this intense 3 day workout. This workshop is a GAME CHANGER for the commercial actor.
Taught by Oren Skoog
Limit 10 students

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