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Industry Buzz:
"David Kagen has a director's eye"
-- Howard Deutch, Director, PRETTY IN PINK, THE REPLACEMENTS

"...Recommended..."
-- Barbara Claman Casting Director, PENSACOLA, SILK STOCKINGS more

Clients Say:
"One of the best acting teachers I've worked with. Inspires you to do your best work - To really express your unique self. Caring and enthusiastic. An excellent coach for the working professional."
-- Ted Danson,
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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR CLIENT ALEC BALDWIN FOR WINNING HIS 2008 EMMY FOR "30 ROCK"  and to TED DANSON FOR HIS EMMY NOMINATION FOR "DAMAGES."

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Who We Are:
Our acting teachers are working actors in film and television, with conservatory training from the oldest and best schools in the United States. They have been trained in a wide variety of acting classes and techniques including Meisner, Stanislavsky, Michael Checkov, Viola Spolins Theater Games, Improvisation, and Scene Study. They know what it really takes to get acting work because they have all supported themselves from acting for years - and they are supportive. They teach you by building you up in our acting classes, not tearing you down. more		 What We Do:
We have the smallest classes in Los Angeles and provide a real-world approach to professional acting in Los Angeles that gives you the on-camera acting, audition and cold reading skills you need to effectively compete to get work. You always act from scripts, on-camera and we use the principles from Sandford Meisner's book ON ACTING as teaching tools while drawing from the best of all the great acting teaching methods including Stanislavky, The Actors Studio, The Group Theater, Scene Study and Improvisation.
You learn how to perform a scene by expressing your instinctive emotional responses to everything that's going in the scene. (Non actors, click here) more

Workshops:
 MONTHLY INTENSIVES - STUDY 4 TIMES PER WEEK!

ON-GOING ACTING CLASSES FOR BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE LEVEL ACTORS

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ON-GOING MASTER CLASS FOR WORKING PROFESSIONALS ONLY!

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Only 2% to 5% of all those seeking to earn money as actors support themselves financially. Our classes are not jobs, interviews, or auditions. Attending classes or a workshop is how you get more emotionally expressive, to give you the best chance to get work as an actor. Such contact as you may have with a casting director or any other industry professionals at a workshop or classes rarely results in further contact with that casting director, industry professional or any company affiliated with that casting director or industry professional.