FEBRUARY 2021
Get audition primed and set-ready by understanding how a Genre impacts your acting choices.
Each scene and each project demand different skill sets from actors. Being a working actor is being a flexible, knowledgeable, and prepared actor who can adapt to different genres.
JANUARY 2021
Find ease acting on camera in a safe and small class.
Exploring truth on camera is both technique and philosophy. Learn to allow your specificity to anchor you, and trust yourself in the moment-to-moment work that follows. *BONUS*: [ONLINE] version includes extra attention to self-tape techniques that will blow your mind with inspiration, plus a detailed look at your own tech setup.
FEBRUARY 2020
Dig deeper and reflect yourself authentically in all of your acting choices.
Forcibly knock down your personal obstacles on camera and learn to reinforce who you naturally are. Uncover where you’re stuck, what inspires you, and what ultimately causes you to book the job. Includes special focus on your Websites and Images.
NOVEMBER 2020
GUEST TEACHER | Learn what it takes for actors to go from audition to screen tests to filming.
Develop your love of auditioning by learning from someone who’s gone through it all: background, co-stars, guest stars, series regulars. Work on scenes in class and pick up more ways of viewing your choices and coloring your work as an actor.
JANUARY 2021
STUDIO TEACHER | Short scenes, lots to do.
Demystify co-star roles and prepare the “under-5” audition with confidence. Whether you’re new to co-stars or seasoned but hitting a ceiling, learn and practice the key skills needed to survive and thrive in these fast-moving scenarios.
JANUARY 2021
GUEST TEACHER | Expand your voice acting skills and be creatively inspired by this 4-week course about voice performing for Commercials, Animation, Audio Books, and PSAs.
Learn what these various voice performance arenas require from you and where you fit in them; how to choose the material that will allow you to show where you are marketable; and how to make the adjustments each script is asking of you.
NOVEMBER 2020
GUEST TEACHER | A four-week class that dives deep into the mechanics of playing a leading role.
Shape a leading role and make it your own by practicing deep, extended character work. Learn how to craft a main character’s arc from beginning to end.
COMING SOON! FALL 2020
GUEST TEACHER | This course expands an actor’s knowledge of genre and teaches how to build Character through design elements for auditions and performance.
Over 4 weeks, students will study the nuances of genre through visual details, learn how to create super specific character through design elements, innovative ways to utilize costume to support character, and create audition pieces with specific design elements for any genre. This will release the actor’s imagination! As well, it will be a playground of stimulation for all actor’s considering creating their own projects.
FEBRUARY 2021
STUDIO TEACHER | Make choices inside the camera frame that tell the story.
This 3-week online class guides you towards using the camera to your advantage! Learn physicality for the camera, work the beats, bring the internal monologue to life, and practice self-tape techniques.
2021 DATES TBD
For actors who want to take charge.
This is an era in which actors inspire the creation of TV series, films, web series. Your career is in your hands. All you need to do is unlock your creativity and purpose so that your passion and motivation can flow.
ONGOING
Let’s create! Private one-on-one coaching for actor-creators.
You are ready to kick your project into high gear. Yes! It doesn’t matter what phase you are at – starting, rewriting, developing, pre-production. I would love to support and work with you between my own projects that I’m excited to be producing and writing.
ONGOING
STUDIO TEACHER | 1-on-1 Private Training Series: Find the gaps in your training to work on camera. Expand your skills.
This private 3-session sequence guides you towards using the camera to your advantage! Learn physicality for the camera, work the beats, bring the internal monologue to life, and practice self-tape techniques. Customized to each actor, where you are at.
COMING SOON! FALL 2020
STUDIO TEACHER | Learn to act and audition on camera with confidence and authenticity.
Get more comfortable working in front of the camera and learn how to feel prepared for your auditions. Find out how you can bring your authentic self to your on-camera work.
2021 DATES TBD
A coaching group for actor-creators to continue building momentum for independent projects.
It takes a village. Your short, feature, play, or webisode is your baby. As a creator, you need a family—the “village”—that you can go to when you need to be reminded of where your North Star—your purpose—lies. The Creators Circle is that village.
2020 DATES TBD
GUEST TEACHER | An intensive 5-day bootcamp to develop your screencraft and cultivate your artistic freedom.
Demystify acting on camera. Practice clear tools to quickly access and deliver what you need in the audition room and on set.
2020 DATES TBD
GUEST TEACHER | Specificity, Complexity, Ownership, Truth
Apply Shakespeare’s specificity to screen work. When we explore layers, conflicts, and open possibilities within a given text, creativity opens up and spontaneity flows.
2020 DATES TBD
GUEST TEACHER | Eliminate the sweats from last-minute auditions that call for accents—learn how to prepare an audition-proof accent. Watch her video tips below!
Receive personal, one-on-one dialect coaching from Eliza Simpson. She’ll then simulate a casting room so you can test drive your new audition-proof accent skills in front of the camera with a preselected scene.
2020 DATES TBD
A 2-day master class with Heidi that pushes you to take big risks in your auditions and to overhaul the preparation habits that hold you back on camera.
In this class, we work on (re)settling your ease on camera, (re)building your confidence in the audition room, paying attention to details in your audition prep, and owning your strengths in roles.
2020 DATES TBD
GUEST TEACHER | An intensive 5-day bootcamp to test your set-ready skills as an actor.
Work with partners on different scenes and develop your on-set relationship with the camera. Demystify casting and marketing.
2020 DATES TBD
GUEST TEACHER | Learn the basics of intimacy coordination and how to create a safe and consensual working environment on any set.
Break down the basics of intimacy coordination: consent, communication, context, choreography, and closure. Practice exercises in class to learn concrete tools and procedures for any rehearsal or performance setting.