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Seattle Acting School - Classes
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The program works this way:

1. BEGINNING
   (7 to 10 months)
   
   The Beginning work starts by establishing a connection between the actors and allowing them to discover what being connected can do for them emotionally. They do that by really listening to, and putting all their attention on, the other actor. To that connection they add some difficult activity, which they must really do, for a meaningful imaginary reason, to discover what that can do for them emotionally. Along this process of discovery a regimen of practice is established that leads to habit building. By building a foundation of habits in being connected, really doing something, working emotionally, responsively, and without preconceptions, these beginners are on an approach toward having a real experience, under imaginary circumstances, every time they act.
   
   
2. INTERMEDIATE
   (12 to 14 months)
   
   The Intermediate work begins by adding Emotional Preparation to the routine established in the Beginning work. Adding a playwright's text, and Emotional Preparation, while maintaining the integrity of the Beginning work, makes the Intermediate level the most difficult of this approach. Scene work is begun by introducing a specific rehearsal process that allows the actor to discover a personal, emotional understanding of any given situation. By practicing this process with a dozen or more scenes the actor builds practical skills toward auditioning and problem solving. This rehearsal process evolves into our unique improvisational approach to creating scenes, one-acts, full-length plays, monologues, one-person shows, shorts, and feature-length movies.
   
   
3. ADVANCED
   (On-going)
   
   Now that the actor can function spontaneously and instinctually, and knows how to bring clarity and meaning to a scene, we can deal with interpretation. The Advanced work begins by learning a specific process for extracting the acting from the text. The actor learns how to bring his or her personal, artistic interpretation to every job, to the extent that every acting assignment, every film, play or audition, is a fully realized effort. Characterizations, accents, impediments and all the details of working out a part and a scene are formalized. The Advanced work includes scene nights, plays, and our own television and film projects. For the working actor ours is an ideal situation. The studio becomes the place where you can work out whatever problem a script or Director has presented you with. Having a home base to return to between professional assignments is an enormous benefit for the working actor. Securing paid, professional acting jobs is a requirement of continued Advanced study.

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Schedule and Tuition

Beginning acting classes meet Monday and Thursday evenings at 7:00 PM, in our studio at 140 Western Avenue West . Classes are three hours long and every student works in every class.

Tuition is $145 per month for the Beginning level.

Our schedule is year 'round. Rehearsals between classes, with other class members, are mandatory.

We take Monday off for both Labor Day and Memorial Day and two weeks off at Christmas-time. If Thanksgiving or July 4th fall on a class night we take that night off.

Tuition payments are based on 96 classes per year, paid in 12 equal, monthly installments. If you choose to miss a class we don't owe you that class, we gave it, you missed it. If you decide to take the month of December off you still owe for the classes that month's payment offsets. By the same token, when there are more than eight classes in a month you are not charged more.

Voice-Over classes are held each Wednesday evening from 7:00PM until 10:00PM. Every student works in every class and the monthly payment is $90.00.