Course 1

Course 1 restores the actor’s relationship to discipline, process and fundamental technique. It is a return to the essential work that leads to organic, truthful behavior.

Modules:

1. Reconnect to Your Why
   Examine your standards, embrace failure as discovery, and commit to process over results.
2. The Fundamentals of Acting
   Examine your standards, embrace failure as discovery, and commit to process over results.
3. Emotion in Acting
   Develop a fluid relationship to emotional truth with greater ease and presence.
4. Crafting: The Essential Questions
   Identify and pin down the previous circumstance, emotional preparation, relationship, and objective.

Course 1 requires a copy of Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets.