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Acting Workshops

Celebrity Acting Coach Michelle Danner teaching her Renowned
ACTOR'S GOLDEN BOX
Two Day Technique Breakdown Intensive

Please note: Workshops are not refundable so make sure you are committed before signing up!
If actors are unable to attend a workshop we will happily give them a credit.

Check Michelle's International Schedule and Register online at www.larrymossstudio.com
or call The Acting Studio at Edgemar to register 310-392-0815


 
Michelle Danner OVERVIEW
Learn how to create vivid, fleshed out, and interesting characters through an intense and emotional workshop with lectures and technique exercises. The Actor's Golden Box is a two day in depth lecture that breaks down the technical map used at The Acting Studio at Edgemar.
The class focuses on answering the following questions:
  • Why are some choices more powerful than others?
  • How does one deliver a raw unforgettable performance?
  • What specific tools can be applied to film, television and stage work?
  • How does one develop a personal story from scratch and discover material for a one woman/man show, screenplay, short or novel?

The class is will be supported by film clips. There are discussions and analyses of performances by Meryl Streep, Judi Dench, Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Dean and many others.

Exercises include learning how to build provocative and complex back stories by opening your instrument up emotionally and finding triggers and psychological gestures in your work.

This class has served as more than an acting seminar as past participants have discovered profound truths about themselves as artists.

ABOUT MICHELLE DANNER
Michelle Danner has coached many A-List Actors privately and on set including Chris Rock, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Penelope Cruz, Michael Pena, Isla Fisher, Common, Salma Hayek, Brian McKnight, James Franco, Marcia Cross, Christian Slater, Catherine Bell, Zooey Deschanel, Gabrielle Union, Justin Chatwin, Justine Wadell, Rob Estes, Rick Fox, and Sally Kellerman among many others. She trained with Stella Adler, Uta Hagen, and Bill Esper. For the last nineteen years she has run the Larry Moss Studio at Edgemar Center for the Arts.

Her highlights at Edgemar include producing The Night of the Black Cat, winner of the 2005 Best Musical of the Year at the Los Angeles Music Awards. She directed the world premiere of Mental the Musical, winner of several 17th Annual TicketHolder awards for acting and musical score. Last year she wrote and directed You're on the Air an improv based comedy which is currently under development to become a movie. She recently directed the Los Angeles premiere of Hello Herman by John Buffalo Mailer.

She produced and acted in the award-winning short Dos Corazones, directed by Larry Moss, which won Best Cinematography & Audience Favorite at the Malibu Film Festival. In 2006 she made her feature film-directing debut How to go Out on a Date in Queens which was nominated and won four LA Film Awards including Best Director. It starred Jason Alexander, Esai Morales, Ron Perlman, Kimberly Williams, Rob Estes, and Alison Eastwood. After being theatrically released it's now available everywhere on video and also aired nationwide on the Sunday Night Movie of the Week Memorial Day weekend 2008.

She was the acting coach expert on comedy on the WB show "The Starlet". She was voted favorite acting coach by Backstage readers. Once a year Michelle directs for the industry the multi media event Scene Bites. She was featured coaching Andy Richter on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien in July 2009.

Michelle, alongside Larry Moss, is the founder and Artistic Director of Edgemar Center for the Arts and The Edgemar Theatre Group. She raised 1.3 million in Capital campaign which went to the construction of the two theatres and the art gallery. Her production company, Capricorn Films, is in development for several film projects: You're on the Air, The Will To... and Hello Herman which is slated to start principal photography in 2010.

To register email or call Kirsten: 604.408.8550!
Online application form;     Printable contract (pdf)

Dates:April 3 - 4
Days:Saturday/Sunday
Time:SAT 10:00am - 4:00pm
SUN 10:00am - 3:00pm
Tuition:$355 + GST
Tuition must be made in full upon
registration to secure your spot.