Discover Your Acting Blocks
Create From a Freely Imaginative Place
Be Present and Grounded in Your Work
Scene Study is an actor’s gym - a place for you to hone your craft and keep your skills sharp. It’s an environment for actors to get their reps in, continually tackling new material and gaining confidence in their process. How are you keeping your artistic self in shape?
Considered some of the best scene study classes in New York City, T. Schreiber Studio's courses have a following with award-nominated actors and television series regulars. These scene study classes provide an environment for experienced actors to enhance their ability to act from a deeply personal and freely imaginative place, bringing spontaneity and truthfulness to their work. Tools and exercises will be incorporated with scene work to develop the actor’s instrument and build technique.
These ongoing Scene Study classes meet once a week in-person and are offered in cycles of 4 or 6 weeks. Once you have joined an ongoing class, you may re-enroll to continue developing your work.
Scene Study is for you if you...
Need help taking risks and making more interesting acting choices. Have acting blocks you want to address. Want to incorporate improvisation in your character and relationship development.
After this course, you will…
Incorporate new tools and exercises to deepen your character work. Connect with your body and inner life more deeply. Reinforce your authenticity by personalizing and pursuing your character objectives.
Actors will engage in group warmups, relaxation techniques, and sensory/stimulus work and work with partners on an assigned scene from a play. Personal in-depth work, first read techniques, character exercises, and relationship improvs designed to tap into the actor’s inner life and imagination will be applied. In future cycles, actors are assigned a variety of new scenes and partners as they continue to develop and strengthen their process.
Intermediate/Advanced Scene Study
Upcoming Dates
3:00pm - 6:00pm
INSTRUCTOR: Andrew Dolan. Meets IN PERSON once a week on Thursdays
Fee: $335/6 classes (plus $75 registration fee for new students)
Scene Study
Instructors:Peter Jensen, and Andrew Dolan
Ready to apply?
- This is an intermediate/advanced level class. You can apply online. An audition is required.
- If you’re new to T. Schreiber Studio, select the LOG IN/CREATE ACCOUNT button to sign up and submit your application. We will contact you with the information you need to submit your audition.
- Questions? Call us at 212-741-0209 or send an email to studio@tschreiber.org so we can help.
Andrew Dolan has taught at the Stella Adler Studio, The American Conservatory Theater, AMDA, The Freeman Studio and the American Academy of Dramatic Art. Acting credits include American Daughter (Broadway), Strictly Dishonorable (Vineyard), Spoleto Festival, Magic Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Handsome Harry, Unstoppable, Partners in Crime, 28 Days, Ash Tuesday, Deal Breakers, Rob Peace, Elementary, House of Cards, Bull, Blue Bloods, Good Wife, The Americans, Person of Interest, Good Cop, The Tick, Blacklist , Your Honor, Chicago Med, Being Human, David Letterman, all Law & Orders, Conviction, Return of Jezebel James, Guiding Light, Crash Life. As a writer, Andrew's plays have been developed and performed at EST West, Road Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, Barrington Stage, Marin Theatre Company, Mile Square Theatre. Training: Bowdoin College, MFA: American Conservatory Theatre.
Prior to joining T. Schreiber Studio & Theatre as Artistic Director, Peter Jensen was a member of the Core Faculty of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and served as the 3rd year Academy Company Director. He studied with Terry Schreiber, Uta Hagen, Chuck Olsen (Actor’s Studio), 78th Street Theatre Lab. Directing credits at T. Schreiber include Hot L Baltimore, nominated for NYIT Outstanding Production, Balm in Gilead winner of the 2011 NYIT Award for Outstanding Production The Pillowman, Lobby Hero, Joking Apart, Hurlyburly, A Taste of Honey, Marvin’s Room, You Can’t Take It With You, The Real Inspector Hound, The Actor’s Nightmare, Fifth of July and Doubt.