This four-day Intensive focuses on acting for the camera and the industry of acting. You will learn the skill of adjusting for the camera and experience how the camera comes to you and watches you think. You will understand framing and appropriate on-set behavior. Participants will be assigned on-camera scenes to tape in advance of the workshop.
Career Essentials
The Career Essentials program has been carefully designed to lay a foundation for the rigors of a career as a professional entrepreneur, as well as to continue to nurture and refine the artist’s strengths.
Course Overview
TRANSFORM
Meet Your Instructors
Catherine Dyer
In the last two decades Catherine Dyer has built an impressive resume on both sides of the camera. As an actress she is best known as the evil Agent Connie Frazier in season 1 of the Netflix mega-hit Stranger Things. She can currently be seen opposite Chris Pratt in Amazon’s thriller The Terminal List and later this year will appear opposite Benicio Del Toro in Reptile on Netflix.
Claire Bronson
In the last few years Claire Bronson has been working in front of and behind the camera as an actor, producer, director and on set coach. In addition to starring opposite Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin in the hit disaster film Greenland, you can catch her in two Stephen King projects.
Scott Poythress
Scott Poythress has worked professionally for over 31 years on stage, studio features, indie films, commercials and lending his voice to both video games and scripted podcasts. As an actor, producer, director and now award-winning editor he continues to stay busy on both the east and west coast.
Jason MacDonald
Jason MacDonald began his professional career in New York City with stints at LaMama, Circle in the Square and opposite Frank Langella in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of The Tempest. Feature film credits include The Man From Toronto, Moonshot, The Accountant, Life As We Know It, The Family That Preys, Beacon Point, The Joneses, Pageant Material, and the thriller 1st Summoning.
What You’ll Learn
In today’s entertainment industry, the modern actor is challenged with maintaining their artistic identity while simultaneously running their own business—marketing themselves as both an artist, and a savvy craftsperson capable of consistently delivering on promised work.
More than making a name for oneself, actors these days are called upon to create a brand for themselves and to balance the vulnerability of creativity with the practical need for logistics, strategy, and fairly paid work.
That’s why we’ve created our Career Essentials: How to be a Successful Working Actor program, where TK Studio can help you step firmly into this duality of roles. We will prepare you to draw upon your life experience and creative energy, and advocate for yourself as a human being and a talented, contributing member of the industry.
We will cover auditioning skills, self-taping and turning around work fast, how to know what headshot works for you, websites, and reels and the differences between the markets of NYC, LA and Atlanta.
Most important of all, we will help you identify your niche and own your “sweet spot” in the industry. What makes you unique? What kinds of material light you up? What are you not? What’s your elevator pitch, who are you?
The workshop includes Q and A with industry guests from LA, NYC and Atlanta and concludes with a one-on-one session with the faculty where you will develop your individualized plan for success.