MEISNER TECHNIQUE CLASSES
The Artistic Home is one of the Midwest's most established and respected training programs for Meisner based technique. Taught by working professionals who know how to help bring out your best and apply it to your work on stage or on camera.
"The Artistic Home, feels exactly like that, home. Meisner is such a revealing and vulnerable method for an actor to explore, it's necessary that the actor feel safe and supported. Kathy and John have given the Chicago acting community a gift and certainly have helped my acting on all levels, from scene work, to prep and understanding, to incorporating these practices into my commercial and on-camera acting. It is where I keep coming back and always am welcomed."
Grace McPhillips, Actress, Producer, Co-Director Chicago Acting in Film Meetup
MeisnerTech 1/ Breakdown, Breakthrough
Break down your barriers and expose a reservoir of intense and powerful emotional life. Your breakthrough to brilliant acting begins here, "living truthfully" and working moment to moment.
Instructors: Kathy Scambiatterra, Ed Krystosek, Patrick Thornton Prerequisite: Admission by interview
Weds. 8:00-10:00, Sat. 3:00-5:00 $330
Class meets twice per week, July 17 - Sept. 7
Meisner Tech 2/ Conceive, Create
Activate your imagination and plumb the depths of your risk-taking to create forceful, personally connected character. Hone your emotional preparation while continuing to work moment to moment.
Instructors: Kathy Scambiatterra, John Mossman
Prerequisite: Tech 1
Weds. 6-8, Sat. 1-3 $325
Class meets twice per week, July 17 - Sept. 7
Meisner Tech 3/Lift-off
Channel all your work and learning into the world of a play. Make bold choices with high stakes that create dynamic relationship, truthful living, and complex and compelling characters within dramatic structure.
Instructor: Kathy Scambiatterra
Prerequisite: Tech 1,2
Tuesdays 8 - 11 $285
Class meets once per week, July 16 - Sept. 3
"I've seen show after show at the AH and always marveled at how well acted the productions are. I've also had AH actors in my classrooms and films and they not only know and execute the craft splendidly they can talk about it with elan and passion. I unreservedly recommend the Artistic Home for anything to do with the craft of acting, they are true professionals."
Vaun Monroe, Director, Producer
Advanced Meisner/Text: The Bridge
Work intensely with another actor within the structure of two-person scenes and unleash deeply personal, imaginative and organic work. This is the bridge between the Meisner technique and text work.
Instructors: MaryAnn Thebus
Prerequisite: Tech 1,2,3
Sat. 10-1, $300 Not offered this session
Master Class: The Dive
Dive into intensive work with one playwright in a competitive arena where technique and performance are stressed. Explore great text with a fiery ensemble.
Instructor: Kathy Scambiatterra Not offered this session
Meisner Monologue: Audition Intensive
This class provides the 'one-two punch' you need to nail your audition. By accessing two very simple rules of thumb based on Meisner's dynamic method, actors will focus on language, place, delivery and theatricality. This class ensures that you will beam with confidence and command of language, guaranteeing that you will deliver a memorable audition. While the class focuses on the Monologue as an Audition Tool, students will also be 'schooled' in an overview of the 'audition' process. What are you waiting for? You simply have no time to lose and everything to gain with this dynamic, straightforward approach taught by an actual Sanford Meisner trained actor.
Tuesdays 6-8. $275 Madrid St. Angelo Class runs 6-8pm Not offered this session
"Before I enrolled at The Artistic Home, I was searching to find the kind of actor in myself that I admired on so many of Chicago's great stages. I was determined to learn 'how to act.' As I look back on that time and the thrilling discoveries I made about myself and my work, I realize Kathy didn't teach me how to act. She taught me how to live. I draw from and deepen those discoveries daily as I now try to share them with my own acting students. Live simply. Live boldly. Live beautifully."
Jason Bayle, Actor, Faculty LSU
"The Artistic Home, feels exactly like that, home. Meisner is such a revealing and vulnerable method for an actor to explore, it's necessary that the actor feel safe and supported. Kathy and John have given the Chicago acting community a gift and certainly have helped my acting on all levels, from scene work, to prep and understanding, to incorporating these practices into my commercial and on-camera acting. It is where I keep coming back and always am welcomed."
Grace McPhillips, Actress, Producer, Co-Director Chicago Acting in Film Meetup
MeisnerTech 1/ Breakdown, Breakthrough
Break down your barriers and expose a reservoir of intense and powerful emotional life. Your breakthrough to brilliant acting begins here, "living truthfully" and working moment to moment.
Instructors: Kathy Scambiatterra, Ed Krystosek, Patrick Thornton Prerequisite: Admission by interview
Weds. 8:00-10:00, Sat. 3:00-5:00 $330
Class meets twice per week, July 17 - Sept. 7
Meisner Tech 2/ Conceive, Create
Activate your imagination and plumb the depths of your risk-taking to create forceful, personally connected character. Hone your emotional preparation while continuing to work moment to moment.
Instructors: Kathy Scambiatterra, John Mossman
Prerequisite: Tech 1
Weds. 6-8, Sat. 1-3 $325
Class meets twice per week, July 17 - Sept. 7
Meisner Tech 3/Lift-off
Channel all your work and learning into the world of a play. Make bold choices with high stakes that create dynamic relationship, truthful living, and complex and compelling characters within dramatic structure.
Instructor: Kathy Scambiatterra
Prerequisite: Tech 1,2
Tuesdays 8 - 11 $285
Class meets once per week, July 16 - Sept. 3
"I've seen show after show at the AH and always marveled at how well acted the productions are. I've also had AH actors in my classrooms and films and they not only know and execute the craft splendidly they can talk about it with elan and passion. I unreservedly recommend the Artistic Home for anything to do with the craft of acting, they are true professionals."
Vaun Monroe, Director, Producer
Advanced Meisner/Text: The Bridge
Work intensely with another actor within the structure of two-person scenes and unleash deeply personal, imaginative and organic work. This is the bridge between the Meisner technique and text work.
Instructors: MaryAnn Thebus
Prerequisite: Tech 1,2,3
Sat. 10-1, $300 Not offered this session
Master Class: The Dive
Dive into intensive work with one playwright in a competitive arena where technique and performance are stressed. Explore great text with a fiery ensemble.
Instructor: Kathy Scambiatterra Not offered this session
Meisner Monologue: Audition Intensive
This class provides the 'one-two punch' you need to nail your audition. By accessing two very simple rules of thumb based on Meisner's dynamic method, actors will focus on language, place, delivery and theatricality. This class ensures that you will beam with confidence and command of language, guaranteeing that you will deliver a memorable audition. While the class focuses on the Monologue as an Audition Tool, students will also be 'schooled' in an overview of the 'audition' process. What are you waiting for? You simply have no time to lose and everything to gain with this dynamic, straightforward approach taught by an actual Sanford Meisner trained actor.
Tuesdays 6-8. $275 Madrid St. Angelo Class runs 6-8pm Not offered this session
"Before I enrolled at The Artistic Home, I was searching to find the kind of actor in myself that I admired on so many of Chicago's great stages. I was determined to learn 'how to act.' As I look back on that time and the thrilling discoveries I made about myself and my work, I realize Kathy didn't teach me how to act. She taught me how to live. I draw from and deepen those discoveries daily as I now try to share them with my own acting students. Live simply. Live boldly. Live beautifully."
Jason Bayle, Actor, Faculty LSU
