Meisner & Guskin

Prerequisites:  Intensive Screen Acting III
Candidates should ideally have a good understanding of the acting process and training prior to entering this course.

Students to demonstrate the required aptitude, personal characteristics and a desire to pursue a professional acting career.

Course curriculum includes:

• Moment to moment
• Improvisation – Choices
• Inner Dialogue/Subtext
• Free association
• Auditioning processes
• Improvisation – Choices
• The now factor – “read throughs”
• Script and scene work
• Monologue – contemporary – filmed and recorded
• Character development and traits
• Meditation and kinesiology
• Various exercises
• Interpreting story

We are looking for people who are enthusiastic, flexible and self-disciplined. The intensive nature of this course requires a mature, positive attitude and and openness and willingness to learn. The film industry is very demanding and highly one of the most competitive in the world today. Nicholsons Academy of Screen Acting asks that students take full responsibility for their own progress and development. It requires a full commitment in all aspects of the course including attendance, punctuality, participation, preparation and performance.

To progress to ISA-IV, students are required to perform a monologue and complete a questionnaire/exam.

NASA reserves the right to place students in any course equivalent to their level of skill.