Private coaching, whether one on one, semi-private or in small groups, is actor training at its best. The amount of time devoted entirely to your work is the obvious reason for this – the scope of the sessions allow you to move very deeply into the scene, your approach, the moments. Using the highly effective techniques and tools you experience in the Centre’s group classes, your acting coach stays with you, prodding, unravelling, supporting you as you find your way to clarity and confidence. Some actors regularly use private sessions to prepare for auditions or roles, others make weekly or monthly private and semi-private sessions a consistent part of their actor training.
Coaching for auditions: takes the audition material apart and helps you do what is needed most: the acting. Techniques and tricks to solve problems like props, can I move, fights and kisses, accents and more will be given. Alternative approaches to the material can be developed, should you be asked in the audition to deliver the work differently. $100.00 an hour + HST.
Private and Semi-private coaching: The private sessions are one hour and the semi-privates an hour and a half with two actors working together. Each allows you to work intensely and effectively over a short time to dramatically improve your work. The sessions can focus on a specific problem you may be having, explore why you may be feeling stuck and help you move through it, or even help you discover the ways in which you are truly unique as an actor, for example. Private coaching costs $100.00 an hour and the semi-private $75.00 an hour for each actor + HST.
Semi-Private Sessions 3: was initiated two years ago to enormous success.They have proved highly successful with actors making breakthroughs, assimilating ideas, and going from incoherence on acting topics to coherence. This course runs in the first two weeks of August with pairs of actors meeting twice a week. They offer the best of a group acting class with the degree of personal attention you receive in a coaching session. Each individual actor’s goals and concerns will be identified and then explored in scenes and exercises. The results are dynamic and personal.
To book a coaching session with John Boylan, please email info@centreforthearts.com.
