Modern Acting Classes: On-Camera & Private Coaching.
I offer personalized acting training to draw out authentic performance. Learn through two-camera scene work, feature film scripts, and intimate coaching sessions designed to reveal your natural talent.
“I’ve been on set this week in NYC for a web series. And your wisdom keeps coming back to me throughout our shoot days. All our conversations about what it means to be a ‘professional’ in our work. How to carry yourself, how to prepare, support your scene partner, manage an unclear direction, etc.
“I am so grateful for all our coaching over the years - it is truly keeping me grounded in the midst.”
On Camera class.
The next On Camera class will be held every Monday from May 5th to June 9th, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST.
Acting styles change with the times and right now acting for television and film is changing dramatically. What’s required today in episodic drama and feature films is the ability to be utterly and completely natural and truthful in front of the camera and this demands enormous confidence in one’s skills. It’s a great and exciting challenge for both new and experienced actors and it requires a new way of focusing and adapting your skills.
The format of the class is that you will use typical television scenes as a device to get you up in front of the camera practicing. The scenes will be selected both from series shooting in Toronto and according to your type. In the six week course, you will do four or five different scenes.
You and our partner are filmed separately in a two-camera shoot and your work is recorded on an SD card.
I critique your work and coach you individually as well as teach lessons to the whole class. Improvisations, exercises and games geared to naturalistic acting in a realistic setting are used to assist your work.
$575 (tax included)
Directing the Actor – The Actors Audition.
“The way you approach the work was exactly what I needed. I have studied with many different teachers and sometimes I wonder why I didn’t find you sooner...
I really feel what I have discovered since working with you is invaluable. You have helped me trust myself again. The ideas, exercises and philosophy you inspire as you teach are the way I have always wanted to approach my acting. You have helped me to believe in that. You have helped me shift some very old narratives and guided me to free my own voice and creativity in my work. I feel I have built a new foundation within my work to grow from.”
About John Boylan.
A well-known Canadian actor, acting coach, teacher and mentor, John Boylan was the founder of Centre for the Arts, a community arts centre which served the community from 2002 to 2009.
John is a graduate actor from The National Theatre School of Canada and some film and television credits include Story Theatre, Keeping Track, Five Days at Memorial, Pet Sematary.
He taught at the Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson Theatre School) from 2002 to 2018.
He ran the Directing the Actor class at New York University, Graduate Film School, the National Screen Institute, Winnipeg, The Directors Guild of Canada, Toronto and at Centre for the Arts.
In addition to his ongoing classes at his studio, he was a guest tutor at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London for many years.
He delivered a Master Class to members of the acting company at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
He created the acting for film and television course at The Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin; taught at the Guthrie Theatre, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, The Actors Centre, London, and in Zimbabwe for FIA (International Actor’s Federation).
In Toronto taught at George Brown Theatre School, York University graduate and undergraduate theatre departments and Humber College. Across Canada at Workshops in the Performing Arts, Vancouver; Moving Images Group, Halifax, and Queens University. John designed and delivered workshops in the Vancouver, St. John’s and Halifax CBC studios for ACTRAWORKS.
A mentor under the Canadian Senior Artist’s Resource Network (CSARN) program and he taught the first ever on-camera class at The Yale School of Drama.
