Dearing Acting Studio
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Real classes, filmed in the studio in north Phoenix, to watch at your own pace from anywhere.
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How to be a Successful Actor in a Small Market$249
Matthew and Leeann Dearing on building a professional career without moving to Los Angeles or New York. Agents and headshots, auditions and cold reads, memorization, and the business behind all of it.
14 lessons · 1 hr 54 min · yours to keep
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Ace Your Self Tapes: Virtual Casting Workshop$35
Lighting, sound, framing and how to accept an audition. The self tape workshop, filmed.
Monologues: Be Remembered$75
Memorizing the right way, connection and physicality, and how to make a monologue stick.
Reading the Subtext$75
Finding and using what the writer left out of the lines. Built on the Pulitzer Prize play Doubt.
Character Building$75
Two sessions of Masterclass scene work on building a character, with the big jumps and the small ones.
Living inside the Scene$75
Break a script down like a scientist, then put the words back as behavior.
Movement & Emotion in your Scenes$75
Why movement on stage is hard, and how to tie emotion to words so every move means something.
Find the Line: Masterclass Scene Study Intensive$75
A full scene study intensive on David Auburn’s play Proof. Questioning, slow play, and finding the line.
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