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What You’ll Gain
Return to Craft does not teach tricks or shortcuts. It restores the core tools and habits of the serious actor.
1. Technique
Concentration, listening, spontaneity, truthful behavior
2. Discipline
Sustainable habits, preparation, and professional process
3. Imagination
Emotional availability, specificity, vivid inner life
4. Artistic Integrity
Responsibility to the work, the audience, and yourself
Course Format
- Self-paced video instruction
- Written exercises, reflection prompts, and script work
- Optional 1:1 private coaching
- Each course includes four structured modules with:
- Video lessons
- Actor-specific homework
- Reflection prompts
- Curated readings
RTC unfolds across four sequential courses.
Course 1: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ACTING
Focus: Restore discipline, standards, and fundamental technique.
Work: Reestablish concentration, listening, spontaneity, and emotional truth through a return to Meisner based principles and core crafting questions.
Outcome: A renewed relationship to process, clarity, and artistic responsibility.
Modules:
- Reconnect to Your Why
Examine your standards, embrace failure as discovery, and commit to process over results. - The Fundamentals of Acting
Examine your standards, embrace failure as discovery, and commit to process over results. - Emotion in Acting
Develop a fluid relationship to emotional truth with greater ease and presence. - 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.
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:
- Reconnect to Your Why
Examine your standards, embrace failure as discovery, and commit to process over results. - The Fundamentals of Acting
Examine your standards, embrace failure as discovery, and commit to process over results. - Emotion in Acting
Develop a fluid relationship to emotional truth with greater ease and presence. - 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.
Course 2: CRAFTING: BREAKING DOWN A SCRIPT
Focus: Develop precision in script analysis and interpretation.
Work: Approach text with specificity, clear actions, particularizations, and implanted meaning through disciplined, imaginative analysis.
Outcome: The ability to engage material with clarity, depth and simplicity.
PDF’s include an Action List
Modules:
- How to Read a Script for the First Time
Focus, annotate, and generate associations without overcomplicating the work. - Actions: The Clay of Behavior
Reestablish action as the foundation of truthful behavior under imaginary circumstances. - Justifying Text & Creating Impulses
Take responsibility for implanting meaning, and organically justifying everything the character says and does. - Particularizations & the Actor’s Paraphrase
Use these two important tools to break free of line readings and adjusting to the text.
Course 2 requires a copy of Top Dog/Underdog by Suzan Lori-Parks
Course 2 develops precision in how you approach text. It is a disciplined process of reading, interpreting, and unlocking the behavior of the character.
PDF’s include an Action List
Modules:
- How to Read a Script for the First Time
Focus, annotate, and generate associations without overcomplicating the work. - Actions: The Clay of Behavior
Reestablish action as the foundation of truthful behavior under imaginary circumstances. - Justifying Text & Creating Impulses
Take responsibility for implanting meaning, and organically justifying everything the character says and does. - Particularizations & the Actor’s Paraphrase
Use these two important tools to break free of line readings and adjusting to the text.
Course 2 requires a copy of Top Dog/Underdog by Suzan Lori-Parks
Course 3: CREATING CHARACTER
Focus: Refine your process for a detailed, imaginative approach to character.
Work: Integrate physical, psychological, and emotional tools to create layered, nuanced, and actable choices.
Outcome: The ability to create vivid, fully realized human behavior.
PDF’s include worksheets on Laban, Chekhov, Character Homework, and Archetypes
Modules:
- Character Acting
Develop physical, vocal, and point-of-view adjustments using Laban, Chekhov, and archetypal work. - Physical Impediments
Use universal symptoms and physical obstacles to create truthful behavior when dealing with pain, drunk, and drugs. - Making Actable Choices
Craft simple, specific, and personal choices grounded in insight, imagination, and authenticity.
Course 3 requires a copy of A Play in a Rose Garden by Meade Roberts
Course 3 expands the actor’s capacity to work beyond personal, pedestrian habits. It demands a detailed, imaginative approach grounded in physical and psychological specificity.
PDF’s include worksheets on Laban, Chekhov, Character Homework, and Archetypes
Modules:
- Character Acting
Develop physical, vocal, and point-of-view adjustments using Laban, Chekhov, and archetypal work. - Physical Impediments
Use universal symptoms and physical obstacles to create truthful behavior when dealing with pain, drunk, and drugs. - Making Actable Choices
Craft simple, specific, and personal choices grounded in insight, imagination, and authenticity.
Course 3 requires a copy of A Play in a Rose Garden by Meade Roberts
Course 4: THE ACTOR AS ARTIST
Focus: Integrate craft and technique into a personal artistic process.
Work: Appy specificity, analysis, and instinct to complex material through detailed scene study.
Outcome: A disciplined, self-sustaining process grounded in truth and artistry.
PDF’S include Charlie’s Reading List
Modules:
- Paint the Tree
Approach the script by addressing fundamental questions, beats, objectives, meanings, and actions. - Scene Study: Hello From Bertha
Apply the full artistic process to text, creating character that is specific, vivid, and fully realized. - Inspiration for Your Artistic Soul
Sustain the artist in you through discipline, curiosity, and the cultivation of your creative life.
Course 4 requires a copy Hello From Bertha by Tennesse Williams.
Course 4 integrates craft, instinct, and imagination into a personal artistic process. It is where the actor takes full responsibility for the work.
PDF’S include Charlie’s Reading List
Modules:
- Paint the Tree
Approach the script by addressing fundamental questions, beats, objectives, meanings, and actions. - Scene Study: Hello From Bertha
Apply the full artistic process to text, creating character that is specific, vivid, and fully realized. - Inspiration for Your Artistic Soul
Sustain the artist in you through discipline, curiosity, and the cultivation of your creative life.
Course 4 requires a copy Hello From Bertha by Tennesse Williams.
Bonus: EMOTIONAL PREPARATION
Focus: Relating emotionally to the previous circumstance.
Work: A process for self-induced emotional connection before entering a scene.
Outcome: The ability to arrive in a scene emotionally prepared and fully connected.
COURSE 1 IS THE REQUIRED ENTRY POINT TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE PROGRAM
Emotional Preparation is a core fundamental of the actor’s craft. It is a private process for developing emotional connection before entering a scene.
Focus: Emotional connection to the previous circumstance
Work: Using your imagination to emotionally relate to the previous circumstance.
Outcome: Enter a scene fully related and connected.
PDF includes the Emotional Wheel chart of human emotion.
PDF includes the Emotional Wheel chart of human emotion.
Package Deal
Courses 1-4
Includes Bonus Video: Emotional Preparation
Cost: $2,000
Access: 1 Year
Course 3: CREATING CHARACTER
Focus: Refine your process for a detailed, imaginative approach to character.
Work: Integrate physical, psychological, and emotional tools to create layered, nuanced, and actable choices.
Outcome: The ability to create vivid, fully realized human behavior.
Course 3: CREATING CHARACTER
Focus: Refine your process for a detailed, imaginative approach to character.
Work: Integrate physical, psychological, and emotional tools to create layered, nuanced, and actable choices.
Outcome: The ability to create vivid, fully realized human behavior.
Advanced Option: Private Coaching Track
Selective, application-based mentorship for actors seeking direct guidance and deeper accountability.
Reserved for actors ready to work with vigor and accountability.
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