FEST Academy Course: Acting for Non- Beginners, 2-Day Intensive
The Acting for Non-Beginners, 2-Day Intensive course is designed for actors who have some amount of stage performance experience, in small supporting roles or in lead roles. The course is designed to build on existing experience and skills and enable actors to move their performances, and craft, to the next level.
A partial list of course content includes:
- Developing and strengthening vital character Objectives and Intentions
- Creating character physicality
- Introduction to and application of Laban movement techniques
- Relaxation, concentration, presence, and warm-up techniques
- Relaxation techniques before the curtain goes up
- Understanding presence and being in the moment with a performance
- Introduction to Method Acting techniques
Cost: €120 for FEST members, and €150 for non-members. To secure your spot, please pay via BANK TRANSFER only. We are currently experiencing issues with processing credit card payments.
Dates: October 11 & 12, 2025 (Saturday and Sunday).
Times: 9 am to 4:00 pm.
Location: TBD
The course will take place with a minimum of 6 participants and a maximum of 8 participants.
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Your Course Instructor & Coach
Jeff is an American actor, working professionally over the last several years in film, TV, commercials and modelling projects. He completed stage and film actor training in London at Rose Bruford College, Drama Studio London, Actor’s Studio at Pinewood Studios, City Academy London and International School of Screen Acting, and he is represented by Crawford Talents in Berlin.
He has been performing on stage with FEST since 2007, with leading roles in Death of A Salesman, Doubt: A Parable, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Our Country’s Good and many more. He also has several credits as a Director with FEST, including such works as Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Woody Allen’s Old Saybrook and several more. He frequently offers Acting workshops, training courses and actor coaching for FEST.