Our 1-Year Professional Acting Program is a training conservatory designed for the professional, working actor. The program is designed to build on the actor’s existing set of skills and take training to the next level. Students will work with The Barrow Group’s simple, effective tools, as compiled in Seth Barrish’s book An Actor’s Companion, which help an actor to find more ease, spontaneity, and clarity.
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The next program starts in September 2025. Applications for this program will open in December 2024.
If you have any questions, please contact us here.
After completing the 1-Year Professional Acting Program, students can apply for the Actor Craft Expansion Program.
Sample Curriculum*
Fall: Script Analysis – Students explore specific techniques to decipher the contextual and storytelling elements. With an enhanced understanding of the script, performances improve and the story is better told.
Scene Study – The Barrow Group acting tools are explored via scene study of contemporary material. These tools are designed to: – encourage spontaneity – foster entertaining, human, and compelling behavior – help actors become more sensitive, imaginative, responsive, and alive onstage – relax the actor – change the work effortlessly and invisibly – bring freedom to the work
Monologues – Students apply The Barrow Group tools to contemporary and classical monologues. The goal is to complete this section with 5 audition-ready monologues.
Business of Acting – Focus on routines, time management, and goals in becoming an empowered artist.
Winter: Film/TV – On-Camera Acting – In this section, students apply The Barrow Group tools to on-camera work via monologues, scene study, audition technique, commercial audition technique, and self tape workshops.
Advanced Scene Study – Exploration of classical and non-realism material via scene study.
Shakespeare – Specific Barrow Group tools and techniques are applied to Shakespeare’s work that lead to greater understanding of the text and much greater clarity in performance.
Business of Acting – Insight into the basics of the business: materials needed, finding auditions, representation, promotion, and networking.
Spring: Scene Study and Scene Sharing –Through scene study, students begin work on self-diagnosis and self-adjustment. This section then shifts into performance tools and guided direction, as students prepare for industry sessions and scene sharing performances.
Industry Sessions – Students will meet and share their work with invited industry guests in class.
Shooting a Reel – Students will work with a professional production company to create and film a scene for use in a reel.
*Sample curriculum subject to change.
Now accepting applications for the 2024-25 Program.
Applications received between January 30 and April 14 will be scheduled for an audition and callback between April 15 and 30. Announcement for placement in the program will be by May 10.
Applications received between April 15 and June 9 will be scheduled for an audition and callback between June 10 and 24. Announcement for placement in the program will be by June 30.
Applications received between June 10 and August 5 will be scheduled for an audition and callback between August 5 and 18. Announcement for placement in the program will be by August 23.
