Our In-Person 1-Year Intermediate Acting Program is designed to introduce The Barrow Group approach to actors with some previous training and experience. It is ideal for actors who are ready to expand their training and committed to laying the foundation for a professional career. 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 in their work.
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After completing this program, students can apply for the 1-Year Professional Acting Program and/or Actor Craft Expansion Program.
2024 1-Year Intermediate Acting Program January 9 – November 5, 2024 Tuesdays & Fridays, 6:30-9:30pm $4,995
2024 1-Year Intermediate Acting Program January 8 – November 4, 2024 Mondays & Wednesdays, 11am-2pm $4,995
Application is now open. Click on application tab to apply!
If you have any questions, please contact us at info@barrowgroup.org.
Sample Curriculum*
First Session:
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.
Second Session:
Improvisation – Students explore the fundamentals of improvisation. Through exercises and games, students will learn the basic skills of improv and have fun developing their spontaneity, playfulness, imagination, and confidence. Improv is an essential skill for any actor, and it’s a useful one for life as well.
Film/TV – On Camera Acting – In this section, students apply The Barrow Group tools to on-camera work via monologues, scene study, audition technique, and self-tape workshops.
Alexander Technique – Alexander Technique offers a set of skills and insights about how we think, move and breathe by connecting our senses to our thoughts, feelings and actions. As actors and performing artists, we can use this method to invite more ease into our preparation instead of stiffness or tension.
Voice for the Actor – Students explore physical/vocal exercises designed to loosen and free the voice/body so that they can communicate with more clarity, spontaneity, and power.
Third Session:
Advanced Scene Study and Scene Sharing – Continuation of scene study and exploring The Barrow Group tools. This section then shifts into performance tools and guided direction, as students prepare for in-class industry sessions and a scene sharing performance for The Barrow Group community.
Industry Sessions – Students will meet and share their work with invited industry guests in class.
Business of Acting – Insight into the basics of the business: materials needed, finding auditions, representation, promotion, and networking.
