w/Resident Coach and Instructor Steven McCarthy

Get out of your head and into your body. Discover and strengthen your instincts. Let go of overly controlling your work.

EAI is designed to activate the actor's imagination, strengthen physical and emotional impulses, and help them trust their spontaneity.


EAI focuses on developing and exploring the actor's body, breath, and voice as our key tools for translating dynamic action, relationship, subtext, and stakes within the frame. With a distinct focus on improvisation, impulse work and physical exercises, this course is all about doing rather than thinking. We'll explore how to tune into our instincts, build confidence in our own spontaneity and play within partnered work, and discover pathways to deeper emotional range. We'll see how our own habits help (or hurt) our access to character, and discover the subtextual motivations that drive people to do what they do.

This course will be adjusted and augmented for the individuals involved, while maintaining an aggressive commitment to safe-space play, and a warmth and generosity of spirit.

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REQUIREMENTS: 

Previous theoretical and practical experience specific to Film and TV, or successful completion of Core Acting I, or completion of a post-secondary theatre school program.

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