If you’re a film or theater director, actor or filmmaker looking for workshop where you make serious progress achieving your creative and professional goals in the very important area of DIRECTING ACTORS, join us. Goodman Directing and Acting Studio offers intensive workshops for film and theater directors. This is a comprehensive course with practical and real life examples, and scientific approach. The director will learn how to bring out the best possible performance from their actors and create a memorable and everlasting work of art. Every student needs time for creating characters and drafting directions for their actors. Our workshops and book, “The Art of Directing Actors,” by Ernest Goodman presents directing actors as a practical psychology: the art of managing human behavior. Our ultimate goal is quality of education, which is why our classes are small. Every student will work with actors we provide.

Directing Actors Intensive workshop includes:

(1) Basic principles of directing actors
(2) Understanding of Result and General directions
(3) Examples of the common mistakes of director (20 examples of Result-oriented  and General direction)
(4) More than 17 methods of directing gathered from different teachers and practitioners from different countries which show students the effective ways of directing actors. The successful techniques of Constantin Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner and others are presented
(5) Casting principles
(6) Rehearsal techniques
(7) Script breakdown, the director plan of the movie
(8) Most known acting methods and techniques