february 4th - march 4th
online

with John Markland

Every moment of your life, you're reading invisible information – the tension that enters a room before words are spoken, the way someone's body contradicts their smile, the charge between two people that has nothing to do with the words their speaking. You already know how to decode emotional atmospheres, sense power dynamics, and feel the real conversation happening beneath the surface. This intensive trains you to consciously access and apply this intuitive literacy to your acting work. Over five weeks, you'll develop the skills that make certain actors seem psychic – the ones who find layers in scenes others miss, who create instant chemistry with scene partners, and who always seem to understand what's really happening in the story, even when it's not on the page.

This isn't esoteric theory – it's practical training for the working actor. You'll learn to read casting rooms before you speak, understand what directors want but can't articulate, and find the ritual hidden inside mundane scenes. Through exercises in status dynamics, emotional contagion, and environmental storytelling, you'll discover how to track the invisible exchanges between characters, feel the ancestral patterns driving behavior, and recognize when ordinary dialogue is masking extraordinary events. Whether you're in auditions, chemistry reads, or on set, you'll become the actor who brings the subtext to life – the one who makes everyone else's performance better because you're playing the scene that's happening, not just the one that's written.

This will be a 5-week on-line course with practical tools you will implement and practice in class through scene work along with outside of class tasks and challenges.

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