Professional training for actors, directors, playwrights…
Welcome…
From the Director
Welcome to The Acting Studio - New Yorkknown as the Home For The Serious Actor for over the past four decades, and also considered by the late Mary Humphrey Baldridge as "The New York Actors' Best Kept Secret." Many years ago I imagined creating a place where actors not only could study acting but one where they could also gain invaluable, practical experience by actually doing it in performances to the public. Since its first inception in 1983, the Studio has provided students with the kind of professional actor training needed to develop themselves into first-rate craftsmen. The Studio has also provided them with a home-base wherein they can gain experience outside the classroom which complements their classroom training and helps them in the transition from the classroom into the acting industry. After 42 years of hard work and our unswerving dedication to the love of the craft and ardent respect for Sanford Meisner and the continuation of his legacy we have emerged as the true premiere Meisner training studio in New York City.
Unique to The Acting Studio - New York, LLC is that beyond the classroom experience, the studio fosters a community of artists which provides our actors/directors/writers-in-training the opportunity to participate in a variety of rehearsal, readings, open-class demonstrations, competitions and performance venues with our staff and other working professionals. Through our resident theatre company, Chelsea Repertory Company, and its experimental offspring, the Chelsea Rep LAB, all of this is offered in addition to other projects that arise throughout each year.
The training program at the studio is excellent for those actors matriculating from their university training to the New York community, and for those who find it necessary to work to support themselves while they train at the same time. The studio is conveniently well-situated “in-residence” in the professional atmosphere of the Shetler Studios & Theatre 54 Complex which hosts a great many industry-related endeavors including film and theatre companies, casting agents, and networking companies, as well as two off-off Broadway performance spaces and many classroom/rehearsal studios.
Whereas many places of study in New York are factories quick to sell acting classes of all types, very few are committed to providing affordable and comprehensive, first-rate training, and practical experience, and professional mentoring. As tuitions sky-rocket in New York City, at The Acting Studio - New York we are committed to keeping your tuition affordable so you only pay for the training you receive. There are no pass along costs associated with maintaining an expensive chunk of New York real estate, or large advertising budget and sizeable administrative staff. Remember, the most important thing you will take with you is the training.
I hope you will bookmark us and/or take the time to give us a closer look. And perhaps you will make the step to become part of our professional community.
The programs and classes are designed to train actors, directors and writers who seek professional careers in the fields of Film, Television and Theatre. Through Chelsea Rep LAB we provide a mechanism for our students to write, direct, audition and act in shows and productions. We have many alumni who continue to return to the studio to act with our company along with our current students, while they continue to blossom in the industry at large!
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