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Musical Theater Workshop
Sun, Nov 1, 7:00 PMWelcome back! Or if it’s your first time with us, welcome! We are the **[Brooklyn Alternative Musical Theater Collective](https://www.bkalttheater.com/)**, and we'd love for you to join us at the lovely [Secret Pour](https://www.instagram.com/secretpour/) by the Kosciuszko J train to showcase some of our works in progress. Do you have short scenes you want to be read aloud? Do you have songs you want to perform? Good news, we have talented actors and singers ready to engage with your material. Need feedback on your work? Just ask! We’ll rip it to shreds! [Submit original works to be shared at the workshop by filling out this form.](https://forms.gle/dgmQUKa4MD31MtsU7) If your work is selected, we will contact you in advance of the workshop. Improv games, writing exercises, song analyses and more. Come join us at the finest musical theater workshop this side of the Hudson. This is an inclusive space for people of all races, genders and positions on the spectrum. If you have a problem with that, don’t come!
the Carl Velas ACTING STUDIO is back in Action
Sun, Oct 25, 3:00 PMAfter a long break the Carl Velas ACTING STUDIO is resuming weekly classes in Dramatic Acting. Each class will develop a short Dramatic scene starting with a reading of the script and ending with a 'staged' performance. Everyone will get a chance to participate as both an Actor in the scene and an observer in the audience. The assumption is that anyone who attends a meeting of this group is already capable of Acting to a certain degree and is ready and willing to jump right into the scene. The goal of each meeting is not only to determine if you have what it takes to be a Dramatic Actor, but whether or not you actually enjoy it.
Self Tape Audition Acting Intensive Workshop
Wed, Oct 28, 10:00 PMA two hour intimate & intensive introductory course on self-taping for auditions & scene work with Lucas Van Engen Star of We Own This City on HBO! You will be taught how to shoot a self-tape with your smart phone that will be professionaly ready to be viewed by NYC casting directors! Plz email me at deemajor777@gmail.com for scene to prepare for the self-tape, be prepared! You will walk away with a professional self tape. Commit to 3 months and price drops to $75 per class
Focus, Confidence & Small Talk: Acting Exercises Workshop
Thu, Oct 22, 10:30 PMHi everyone! Our next Train Attention workshop is on Thursday, October 22, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM in Midtown Manhattan. In 90 minutes we'll use acting and improv exercises to practice: - Focus and concentration - Listening and working with a partner - Memory - Confidence and small talk - Quick reactions and presence Everything happens through movement, games and interaction. No acting experience needed, and nobody is put on the spot to perform. Where: 305 West 38th St, New York, NY Please bring a photo ID to enter the building. Wear comfortable clothes you can move in. The group is small (up to 16 people), so please RSVP to reserve your spot. Feel free to message me with any questions. Looking forward to meeting you! Eevahn
IMPROV ACTING CLASS!!!
Sun, Nov 1, 5:00 PMIMPROV ACTING will give you greater confidence, poise, and deep communication skills! It will take the pressure off of your day and give you renewed energy optima! You will have great fun doing 3 minute scenes with other folks and will all be assigned a type of scene and a character you will be portraying! You might be an ET, the devil, a saint, Jesus, an angel, a cat, a dog, a bird, a 100 year old person, a teenager, a baby, a tree, a person on their first date, a ghost, a lottery winner, etc. In my cutting edge innovative IMPROV ACTING CLASS I will train you to fear nothing and to have the confidence to do anything that you are called upon to do even "against type” and have a relaxed and a self assured style. This training will help you in life's many challenges! Low Admission: $15 cash only. (One wild expansive hour!) Reservations Needed NOW: Email Full Name, Phone, Email to: nicknyny1@gmail.com (Only 12 students max.) The Center, 208 W 13th St., Room 304, 3rd floor, NYC
Write the Role Only You Can Play: A Self-Made Actor Lab™ Intensive
Tue, Nov 17, 11:30 PM# **ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP** You became an actor to tell stories—not to spend your entire career waiting for someone else to give you permission to tell one. **Self-Made Actor Lab™** is an intimate, hands-on intensive for actors who are ready to stop waiting for the perfect role and begin creating work of their own. Led by award-winning actress and filmmaker **Sakinah Iman**, this workshop will help you identify the experiences, perspectives and natural talents that make you uniquely compelling—and begin transforming them into an original cinematic monologue written specifically for **you**. This isn't about writing a random scene just so you have something to perform. **Your life is creative material.** Your humor. Your heartbreak. Your culture. Your relationships. Your contradictions. Your career. Your weirdness. Your talents. The things you've survived. The things you can't stop talking about. Those are often the very things that give an artist a point of view. Sakinah's own career changed when she stopped waiting for someone to write the perfect role for her and began creating films around her own voice, talents and lived experiences. **Now she'll teach you how to begin doing the same.** *** # **WHAT YOU'LL LEARN** ### **1\. Find the Story Only You Can Tell** Through guided exercises, you'll explore your experiences, perspective, personality and natural talents to uncover material that could become compelling original work. Maybe you're also a dancer, rapper, comedian, athlete, martial artist, musician, parent, chef, poet—or you simply carry a life experience and perspective nobody else can reproduce. You'll learn to ask: **What makes *me* interesting before I ever step into character?** ### **2\. Turn Your Truth Into a Cinematic Monologue** You'll learn how to take raw personal material and begin shaping it into a structured monologue with character, stakes, conflict, specificity and emotional movement. The goal isn't simply to tell your life story. It's to transform truth into **cinematic storytelling.** ### **3\. The Art of Believability** A powerful monologue isn't just about the words. It's about whether we believe you. We'll explore performance choices that can help personal material feel lived rather than recited, including emotional connection, specificity, listening, intention and truthful on-camera behavior. ### **4\. Stop Thinking Only Like an Actor\. Start Thinking Like a Creator\.** What happens when you stop seeing yourself only as the person auditioning for someone else's project? You'll learn how self-created work can become an artistic and career asset—and how actors can begin thinking like the writers, producers and creative executives of their own material rather than waiting exclusively for auditions. ### **5\. Film Festivals: What Happens After You Make the Film?** Creating the work is only part of the journey. You'll learn the fundamentals of positioning and submitting an independent short film to festivals, including festival fit, submissions, materials and how to begin building a strategic festival plan. And just as importantly: **What do you do with the film after you've made it?** We'll discuss ways original work can support your reel, artistic brand, online presence and future opportunities. *** # **WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH** By the end of the intensive, you'll leave with: * A clearer understanding of your unique artistic point of view * A personal story or concept selected for development * The foundation/draft of an original cinematic monologue * A framework for developing that monologue into a short film * A beginner-friendly understanding of film festival strategy * A clearer plan for using self-created work to increase your visibility as an actor *** # **LEARN FROM AN ACTOR WHO CHOSE HERSELF** **Sakinah Iman** is an NYC actress, writer, director and producer with nearly two decades of acting and performance experience and more than a decade of independent filmmaking experience. After years of working as an actor, Sakinah began creating original vehicles that showcased her own voice and talents rather than waiting for someone else to create those opportunities for her. Her work has since earned **28 film festival awards, screened at more than 70 film festivals worldwide, and been licensed and distributed on major television and streaming platforms, including Showtime, Paramount+, Hulu, Apple TV and Prime Video.** Her spoken-word short film, *He Wants to Know My Number*, grew directly from her own voice and lived experience—one example of what can happen when an actor stops asking, *“What role will someone give me?”* and starts asking: **“What can I create that only I could make?”** But this workshop isn't about teaching you to copy Sakinah's story. **It's about helping you discover yours.** *** # **WHO THIS IS FOR** This workshop is for the actor who knows they're capable of more than the opportunities they've been given. The actor who's tired of waiting for the “right” role. The actor whose current reel doesn't capture the full depth of what they can do. The multidisciplinary artist who has another gift—music, dance, poetry, comedy, athletics, martial arts, writing or something completely unexpected—and has never considered building original work around it. And the actor who knows they have something to say but hasn't yet figured out how to turn it into a story. **You don't have to wait for someone else to write the role that finally lets people see you.** **You can write it yourself.** *This is intentionally a small-group experience so there is room for discussion, writing and individual exploration. Space is limited.*
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