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Our History Acting Studio Chicago has the longest history of any professional acting training center in Chicago. Founded in 1981, Acting Studio Chicago has been serving the Chicago theatrical community for more than three decades. While in Los Angeles in the late seventies, Jane Brody, C.S.A., worked closely with Michael Shurtleff, the well-known teacher, casting director, and author of the actor’s Read more...

Scott Sedita Acting School Since 1998, the experts at Scott Sedita Acting Studios have coached countless dramatic and comedic actors, to help them secure auditions, callbacks and bookings. Many of our acting alumni have starred in lead and major-supporting film roles, or as recurring guest stars and series regulars on television dramas and sitcoms. Here are some actors who have Read more...

Studio Info Speiser/Sturges Acting Studio is new in name only. Aaron Speiser has been Los Angeles’ premiere acting teacher and coach for over thirty years and Shannon Sturges has been studying with Aaron for almost as long. When Aaron finally convinced Shannon to teach for him full time, he realized that he had a partner in the studio that he Read more...

Stella Adler Academy of Acting & Theatre is a world renowned acting school located in the heart of Hollywood, California. We offer extensive training for the serious actor in theatre, film, and television (on camera). The Stella Adler Technique grew out of Miss Adler’s personal work with Konstantin Stanislavski, the father of modern acting. After a long and successful career Read more...

What students are saying about the studio: “A session with Ron is like going to church. I am not a bit religious but I can image that the feelings of calmness and reassurance I am left with after an hour with Ron is similar to sensation of walking about of a service. This is high praise! But I don’t believe Read more...

CELEBRITIES WHO WORKED WITH MICHELLE DANNER Based on Michelle Danner’s last 30 years of supporting both A-List and up and coming actors to fulfill their maximum potential, film director and international acting coach Michelle Danner has distilled the best ideas and practices of the major acting techniques; Stella Adler, The Sanford Meisner, Lee Strasberg, Uta Hagen, Chekhov, & Stanislavsky so artists can draw upon them and Read more...

THE MEISNER TECHNIQUE Sanford Meisner is one of the most important and influential acting teachers of the Twentieth Century. He defined acting as doing things truthfully under imaginary circumstances. By 1930, the most respected and influential theater company in American history formed called The Group Theater assembling such luminaries as Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Clifford Odets, Morris Carnovsky Read more...

Andrew Wood has been teaching acting for fourteen years.  His students have appeared on acclaimed shows such as Roseanne, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Homeland,  The Office, NCIS,  The Big Bang Theory, Westworld, The Man in the High Castle, Animal Kingdom, Training Day, 13 Reasons Why and Chasing Life, among others.  He is a graduate of the MFA Directing program at the Yale School of Drama, and he has a Ph.D. from Stanford University in literature. He Read more...

Acting Classes with John Ruskin John Ruskin was Sanford Meisner’s apprentice, first studying with the master at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City and continuing with him in Bequia in the West Indies where Meisner had a residence. John was chosen by Meisner to become his apprentice and join the acting classes faculty of The Read more...

LOOKING FOR TEEN ACTING CLASSES IN LOS ANGELES? Teen Acting Classes in Los Angeles are for Teens and Young Adults to enjoy CREATING and LIVING the life. Whether you are new to acting or have been working for years – we have Classes that YOU WILL LOVE. Our Acting Class sizes are always small (maximum 12 people) which creates a SAFE NURTURING CREATIVE HOME where you can fully explore what it Read more...