About Los Angeles Acting Conservatory
The Los Angeles Acting Conservatory provides an educational enclave for a community of student-actors who can explore their instruments and take risks in a nurturing environment. We believe in nurturing high-level, independent, experimental student works at all stages of development. We take pride in providing a collaborative workspace for artists of all kinds
The entire faculty of the Los Angeles Acting Conservatory believes that every Artist is unique. There is no cookie-cutter technique that fits all actors. To be a professional actor is to keep firing up one’s voice, Imagination, Passion and Humanity. To nurture one’s acting instrument is to raise the bar with great literature.
Our mission is to empower our students with these skills.
Our 48 week program offers a well-rounded array of acting classes Los Angeles. You will get the foundation needed to achieve a certain standard of acting. The acting philosophy of the Los Angeles Acting Conservatory is that artists can draw on all different acting techniques and form their very own tool box. The Golden Box class covers a summary of the different techniques in acting known as the Method, taught by Stanislavski and then Lee Strasberg in the United States, the Meisner Technique, the Stella Adler Technique, and the Highlights of such teachers as Michael Chekhov and Bobby Lewis and Jerzy Grotowski. All of these techniques will have those methodologies taught in in-depth through classical and contemporary Scene Study, On-Camera work, Improvisation, Voice and Speech, Musical Theatre and the Business of Acting. The result is that students will acquire the knowledge and practice in those different areas that will in turn give them the confidence and skill to pursue careers as actors.
Filmmaking Conservatory Programs:
The emphasis is on hands-on experience. Students gain invaluable experience directing and shooting their own films and serving as integral crew members on other students’ films. In their numerous projects, students take on roles such as director, cinematographer, writer and editor and experience first-hand what it’s like to be a part of a film production. Each student will write, shoot, direct and edit her/his own films.
“The best way to become a filmmaker is to simply start making films.”
At our ESL School, students have the unique opportunity to learn English within an international visual and performing arts academic environment. With its creative and dynamic student body, our ESL School blends the traditional foundations of English language learning with the arts.
The Conservatory’s English thru Performing Arts program is designed for any individual seeking to learn English, but with the unique twist of applying methods from film, television and stage acting to better aid the individual in delivery, tone, style, physical appearance, gestures, body language and confidence; regardless of their field of interest.
In addition our program is tailored to suit the specific needs of future actors, screenwriters, and directors and will uniquely fill the language development needs of International students who wish to pursue performing arts careers in the United States. The Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory has crafted an English thru Performing Arts Program that not only teaches English language skills, but does so in an environment and setting reflecting the performing arts culture and prepares students for the unique world of the performing arts.