Ultimate Acting Programme

The Ultimate Acting Programme includes:

• Comprehensive, in-depth and challenging Method Acting training, voice training, movement training, TV & Film technique, audition technique, Theatre technique, scene and monologue performance and much more. This training will effect a deep powerful change in your acting - taking it to a top level. The training is on a part-time basis to allow you to work and study, until we launch your career.
• A one week L.A. Boot Camp with a world class Method Acting and success coach.
• A session with a leading Hollywood Casting Director
• A session with a leading Hollywood Agent
• Coaching on the ‘business’ of acting.

An Exceptional Actor Training

Here is a breakdown of the areas we will cover within our Method training. Many of the sensory exercises follow the same approach - building up your sensitivity, concentration and focus - to impact your instrument in different ways.

Relaxation

An important aspect of great acting is being able to completely relax. During our technique sessions, we will cover Method Relaxation to focus you mentally and physically.

Sense Memory/ Emotional Memory

You will be taken through the unique extensive progression of Sense Memory exercises where you will build up your sense memory ‘muscle' using real life events.

Private Moment

You will recreate an activity that you would normally do alone, but that you would stop if someone entered the room. This exercise is to allow you to be completely private in public.

Animal Exercise

You will learn how to create a completely different physicality from your own by using the animal exercise. This is where you create the physical and psychological traits of an animal within your characterisations.

Affective Memory

You will relive a strong emotional experience from your own past to create a specific emotion required for a scene.

Song and Dance

You will work on using a song and dance to develop free expression.

Method Improvisation

You will work on various Method improvisation techniques, including ‘Speaking Out' (when you speak out as you, the actor, within a scene, and return to the scene content) and sensory improvisation (when you try different sensory exercises to stimulate different internal improvisations).

Scene Study

This is where you put all the technical exercises to use within scene work. Acting scenes from plays and films is a crucial development tool for the training actor. We will show you how to construct a character, dissect a scene, analyse the text to further your own talent and get the scenes to a top professional standard.

Text Analysis

We will show you how to analyse a text, and how to fully understand the hidden meaning or subtext of the lines. This will also form an important part of how you will develop your characters.

Character Development

There will be sessions specifically covering character development. We will show you how to build a convincing and believable character - crucial to any performance.

Voice and Speech

Having a good grounding on speech and voice is essential. We will help you develop good diction, accent reduction, accent development and voice projection. We will free up your voice to enable you to use it to express yourself fully.

Movement

Freeing up your body so that it can be used for you to fully express yourself is very important. You don’t just act with your head, but your whole body. This unique movement class will allow you to fully engage with your instrument.

Audition Technique

As you become more advanced you will want experience of the audition process, including the dos and don’ts to make your audition a successful one. We will show you all the tricks of the trade to get you the part.

Film and TV Technique

There will be sessions where you will be filmed and given specific film and TV techniques to ensure you are ready to work on camera.

Where do I Attend?

Each month, for 12 months, you will join me for three days over the weekend (Friday-Sunday), on the first weekend of every month, at The Courtyard Theatre, London, where you will be immersed in a professional acting training. We will cover all aspects to ensure that you are ready to enter the profession. During the year, we will also visit L.A. for a special Method Acting Boot Camp where you will be taught by top Method teachers, and at the end of our year together you will experience an Exclusive Graduate Showcase at The Groucho Club, Soho, London.

Why should I choose Brian Timoney Actors' Studio rather
than a typical drama school?

Method Acting originally came from Russia in the early 1900's which was then adopted by the Americans.

The difference between the American Method Acting approach and the conventional British Actor training is significant. A traditional UK Drama School will teach you how to use your voice, how to learn lines, stage business, set responses and imitating what you did before, but producing real emotional experiences and in-depth, gritty performances is not their forte. That's what we do in The Method. We believe that the actor must produce real experiences and emotions on cue everytime with no faking or forcing, as well as excellent voice and movement skills. This leads to very authentic and truthful performances.

At my Studio we focus solely on this approach. During the year, you will experience one of the most rigorous actor training programmes in the world that will be very challenging, but ultimately very rewarding, and will allow you to produce an exceptional level of performance.

The next auditions will be held on 16th December 2009.