The Actor's Golden Box: Advanced Two Day Intensive Technique Analysis

INSTRUCTOR: Michelle Danner

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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.

“I’ve been acting for 17 years, studying seriously. After you read a dozen interviews or watch a handful of ‘Inside the Actor’s Studio’ episodes, they all sound the same. Identical fragments of information being spit at you in mostly the same way… so the biggest compliment I can give to Michelle is that she said some things I actually haven’t heard before. And she said them in a clear and concise manner. That, coupled with the clips, really helped me to identify the building blocks of a performance.”
- Whitney Anderson Actress

“I am a writer, not an actor. I found the material invaluable for information, re: tools for what the actors need from my writing as well as some validation for the things/elements I include which I thought may have been idiosyncratic to me – but are necessary for actors to build/prepare/embody their characters. Thank you!”
- Cindy Lichtment, writer on the Practice

“Michelle Danner has herself been taught by the best of the best. She does not focus on or get you locked into one method of acting, but teaches you to combine & use all of them -- all of you. Her Technique Breakdown as well as her Scene Study Classes are rich and thorough with character and script analysis. Michelle's classes are for the serious and dedicated actor, not the fly-by-nights with just cold reading skills. So I'd say she is the actors' acting teacher. She encourages her students to be proactive and to be creative on many levels. Her story exercise taught me an interesting theatrical way of story telling that allowed me to create and perform a quick 2 minute story that I was asked to do last minute at a national commercial audition. The casting directors loved it and I booked the job! Michelle is one of the sharpest and most inspiring teachers I've ever worked with.”
-Jeff Marchelletta Actor

This class is a PREREQUISITE for: