Services & Pricing

Shea Hampton’s Acting from Source - Scene Study

Sundays from 4:45 - 8:00 pm

ZOOM ONLINE CLASSES AND COACHING AVAILABLE!

I teach these classes as designed by Shea Hampton and are held in her studio. The process we use has evolved to help actors develop and refine themselves as truthful, sensitive instruments through which their talent flows.  This is an intuitive approach that gets actors out of their head and into their body, coming from what they feel, not what they think they should be feeling.  We work with energy and the instrument to create the utmost honesty and connectedness.  Everyone is respected for their uniqueness and is worked with on a personal level to address their particular needs.

Attention is always given to the voice.  Finding the real voice.  Only when one is centred and connected to their real voice will they be able to allow the energy and emotion to flow.  Energy and voice are interconnected and cannot be ignored.

Each week we work with cold reads.  This is an exercise to teach actors to focus, listen and respond truthfully, in the moment.  The cold read scene is taken away and memorized flat and is unrehearsed and to be performed the following week in class.  The idea is to keep the instrument open and to allow the same kind of spontaneity and freedom achieved in the cold read.  Emphasis is not upon a great scene but upon truthful moments.  The focus is always upon development of the actor.  When the actor is working well, the scene very often takes care of itself.

The last class of the month is an on-camera audition class.  We work with shorter scenes and apply the process to the audition situation.

With the mental and emotional welfare of the actor being of top priority, no substitution is used or allowed.

Every month each actor will move through at least 5 different scenes.

Cost: $260/monthly for 4 classes

*required reading: TRUST by Shea Hampton

Private Audition Coaching

All coaching sessions will begin with a brief intentional instrumental check-in and visualization. Step-by-step starting with love of self and love of the work, we explore the scene, fully discovering all the possible layers within the character and the honest expression of the individual actor, all the time maintaining connection to relationship and the reader. We work towards fully practicing the scene as an audition while maintaining a flexibility in finding new breath, new beats, and new truth on every read. The actor is always on their own when they go in the room. I offer a practice that allows you to be free and alive within the confines of an audition room. Prepared to stay truthful and present no matter what the auditors ask of them.

Cost: $60/hr

Self Tapes

The same approach as my coaching with more of a director’s focus. Together we will make the best tape and you will do your best work.

Cost: $120/2-hr taping

Connected Voice Work

We disengage the body so we can completely engage the breath and the Voice. By combining exercises from clowning, breath work, Chi Gung, vocal warm ups, this simple process will connect all your energy and emotion to every breath.

Cost: $60/hr

Private Monologue and Scene Study

One of my first acting teachers, Alan Jordan, said every great actor has 5 monologues ready to go. These monologues evolve with you as you move through life and allow you to continue to expand and grow as an actor. Years ago, I suffered total organ failure. When I woke up, I was paralyzed and could not talk or breath on my own but in my mind I could still feel and live through my monologues, which was instrumental in my recovery. Through this process we will begin with Connected Voice Work leading into one monologue and two scenes applying the Acting from Source cold read technique. You will have a chance to really connect with a piece and make it part of you. The 4th class will be on camera.

Cost: $260/4 classes

Chi Gung and Kung Fu Movement for the Actor

Through this simple movement actors will first experience themselves as a Universal tree, finding confidence and grounding through their own body and breath. I am a mixed martial arts instructor and have been training martial arts for 25 years and Chi Gung and Kung fu for 20 years. This is a peaceful process for the actor and non-combative although it will help you to understand fight choreography. I can direct you elsewhere if that is your interest.

Cost: $80/session