Private Training

These one-hour private sessions are provided for actors who are unable to attend a regular weekly class, but need an intensive, weekly experience. The curriculum teaches you how to work, become capable of getting work, and, most of all, excel in your work.

In private training sessions, we teach acting in the language of chubbuck, along with the chubbuck emotional exercises - private coaching is where the craft is executed.

Areas of Study

Script Analysis

We start with script analysis, looking at the psyche of a character and how they negotiate life. There are multiple layers to any story. The more you dig, the deeper your understanding. There is a special kind of learning you can experience only by cracking open a story and exploring its many moving parts.

Script Breakdown

Students learn how to break down a script by going through choosing an objective, making choices for beats and actions, writing your inner monologue, integrating the actor’s personal history with the characters to dynamically go after your object, etc.

Chubbuck Technique

Students learn the practical application of the principles outlined in the “Power of the Actor” by Ivana Chubbuck. The basics and terminology of the Chubbuck Technique are introduced, then more fully explained and defined. Creating a performance that settles into your gut, while developing an innate sense of what works and what doesn’t…