We invite 18 actors each year into our three-year training program. The actors train from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M., five days a week. The training is divided into three disciplines: acting; voice, speech, and text; and movement.
There are often four to five different classes a day, arranged so that the work in one complements the work in another, and also so the student has a balance of the several disciplines. In addition, when you are rehearsing a production, you will be working most evenings and some weekends. There will be numerous occasions for your progress - both in and out of class - to be reviewed by faculty; you will get an abundance of individualized, personal attention. At the same time, students, faculty, staff, and guest directors become a very close-knit family over the course of three years. The curriculum and schedule of productions are revised each year, depending on the needs of the particular students here at the time. But your daily life of learning is highly structured and laid out for you in advance. Self-discipline, which we hope you will experience as pleasurable, is required for you to get the most out of the concentrated, hard work we ask of you. At the same time, we root the work in the spirit of play.
Photo Credits:Ella Bromblin
