Start Your Career with Acting Classes for Beginners

Our acting classes for beginners offer those looking to explore this art form to build a strong acting foundation. You’ll learn acting techniques, script analysis and character development, and more. What makes our classes the best acting classes in Los Angeles is that we teach every style, acting technique, tool, and method in the business. Most schools or classes focus on one technique or method, but Michelle Danner Acting Studio offers a range of tools tailored for your unique talents. Get started with our acting classes for beginners and contact us today!

We train our actors to succeed in the Hollywood market by providing a well rounded education that includes the intensives taught by Michelle Danner the Breaking into Hollywood.
We can create a budget based intensive depending on how long you’d like to study.
BELOW ARE SOME OF THE CLASSES WE OFFER:
  • Scene Study and script analysis
  • Auditioning for Film and Television on camera
  • Voice & Speech
  • Improvisation – Beginner and Advanced available
  • Accent Reduction

Acting Techniques-8-12 weeks / Learn to apply these techniques to your very own toolbox called “The Golden Box”

  • Meisner acting Technique – Level 1 – 4
  • Stanislavski acing Technique – Level 1 – 4
  • Stella Adler acting Technique – Level 1 – 4
  • Uta Hagen acting technique -Level 1-4
  • The Method acting technique-level 1-4

Electives

  • Musical Theater
  • Stage Combat-learn how to fight in action scenes.

Additional Workshops

  • Acting Demo Reel
  • Make a Short Film

What Makes Us Different?

Michelle Danner Acting Studio takes a unique approach to acting. We believe that every actor has a unique set of skills, their very own Golden Box, and we strive to add more tools to the box. Everyone’s Golden Box is different, and it’s our acting coaches’ mission to help actors find and cultivate their individual and unique talents. Our acting classes for beginners introduce you to this revolutionary concept and explain the importance of having techniques and methods to help you stand out in audition rooms, relate to characters, study scenes, and so much more. We go above and beyond other acting studios and offer the best acting classes in Los Angeles.

Learn Wherever You Are

Michelle Danner Acting Studio can help you reach your acting goals wherever you are. We want our acting classes for beginners to be accessible to all, and our online programs and courses will provide you with our renowned teaching styles from anywhere in the world. We also offer international online courses in Spanish. You’ll get all the benefits and education of the best acting classes in Los Angeles right from your own home. Classes take place via Zoom, and our acting coaches hold online students to the same high standards as in-person courses, so you won’t miss out on effective coaching methods.

Why Michelle Danner Acting Studio?

For decades, Michelle Danner and her acting coaches have worked with world-renowned and successful actors in Hollywood, helping them sharpen their skills and land the roles they want. We offer a variety of courses at multiple skill levels. James Franco, Salma Hayek, Michael Peña, Gerard Butler, and many more have trained here to launch or improve their Hollywood stardom. So whether you need acting classes for beginners or want some one-on-one training, we’re here to help you chase your dreams and jumpstart your own career in acting. All of our acting coaches are experienced actors themselves, with degrees from prestigious institutions across the USA.

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Contact us to learn more and get started with acting classes for beginners! Tell us about yourself and your goals, and we’ll create a custom plan to help you begin your journey in acting. Want more? Learn about our conservatory program and get your Bachelor of Arts from an accredited university at Michelle Danner Acting Studio!

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This Los Angeles acting school offers the following acting classes:

Acting technique: Golden Box

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The Golden Box, a two day acting intensive teaches actors to draw upon all different acting techniques and form a toolbox of their own. Michelle Danner Golden Box technique draws upon Meisner, Strasberg, Adler, Hagen, Chekhov & the Stanislavsky Technique. You will form a toolbox of  your own and develop a comprehensive set of “acting tools” when approaching a role or a scene whether it be for film, television or theater. Michelle teaches a technique that is effective for actors of all different levels.

BREAKING INTO HOLLYWOOD

Learn what you need to break through in your career and prepare the tools you need to succeed! An interactive workshop that answers questions such as:

– Getting a headshot and show reel that stands out among hundreds!
– How to get into SAG-AFTRA!
– Creating a resume that gets you called in!
– Finding agents, managers, lawyers and publications!
– How casting works!
– Developing an individualized strategy for your career!

AUDITIONS FOR FILMS AND TV

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In our acting classes for beginner you will be working in front of the camera is an art all by itself. You have to risk letting it capture the most secret parts of you. Actors practice in front of the camera with sides from movies and TV shows and all genres of dramatic writing. *Playback is watched on television and the big screen. Students learn to stamp their signatures on a character with unique choices. This acting classes for beginners class aims to exercise an ease working in front of the camera and the confidence to perform and to shine in every audition.

VOICE AND SPEECH

This class focuses on voice and text work with storytelling and solo work techniques. Our unique approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression, helping actors produce a full-bodied performance. When you access your inner strength, you’ll not only empower your acting skills, but you’ll increase your bookings.

SCENE STUDY

Scene Study provides the best opportunity for the committed actor to flex their acting muscles, and refine their craft on a consistent basis. Actors are taught the foundations of technique through opening emotional exercises which are used to warm up the actor’s instrument and introduce the tools that will be applied to their scene work. In this acting class, students learn how to use all of their technique, and harness it for performance.

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Students will explore how to apply a back story to the characters that they are creating while working on contemporary and classical scenes and monologues. This weekly workout allows actors to test their performance abilities in a safe and playful environment while discovering their strengths and weaknesses with the help of a trained teacher’s eye. Emphasis is placed on learning to make the best physical, emotional, and vocal choices.

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IMPROVISATION

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It is no secret that there is an industry demand for skilled improv actors whom are quick on their feet and take risks with confidence. This is an improvisational workout geared towards helping actors find creativity and enhance their skills as a performer. Build scenes, take risks and find unique choices that are memorable. Develop strong and exciting characters. Get out of your head and open your eyes to new performance possibilities.

Stella Adler Acting Technique

12 WEEK INTENSIVE

You will learn the Stella Adler technique and explore the language and principles of Stella Adler’s approach to acting, including action, circumstance, and justification. You will develop a foundation from which to build yourself as an actor.  Stella Adler believed that an actor’s talent lies within his imagination. She trained with Stanislavsky and studied the method, but didn’t believe that an actor needs to relive past experiences to connect with the character.

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Here are the main points of this approach to acting:

Acting is Doing
The actor must always do something on stage. He looks for actions in the script (for example, “to teach, to confess, to beg”, etc.) and finds the human conflict in them. He must have a justification for each action (know exactly why he is performing each action).

Developing the Imagination
An actor develops his imagination by first observing the world around him in very specific details. He can then create specific images in his mind in order to surround himself with things that are true to him on stage. If he succeeds, the audience will see through his eyes.

Training The Mind
Actors must have a real understanding of the play in order to reveal its secrets to the audience. They must study the text and its ideas but also research the social situations of the play.

Size
Actors need strong bodies and voices for the stage so they can bring size to their actions. Adler encouraged actors never to be small. Her students learned to always bring a bigger meaning to the text. Below is a short video where she discusses this “sense of epic” the actor must have.

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ACTING TECHNIQUES:

MEISNER TECHNIQUE, STRASBERG, STELLA ADLER ACTING TECHNIQUES.

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Work on stage and learn the practical hands-on approach to acting utilizing the Meisner technique, Strasberg and Stella Adler’s approach to acting.

MEISNER ACTING TECHNIQUE

12 WEEK INTENSIVE

Learn one of the acting techniques that helps create powerful and truthful actors!

You will learn the foundation of Sanford Meisner: exercises in repetition independent activities, emotional preparation & scene work. The second half of the class consists of scene and monologue work, during which time you will apply what you have learned in the exercises to your roles.

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The training begins with a three-month period of intensive improvisational work, including the ”Repetition Exercise” in which actors learn to take the attention off themselves and put it on their partners’ real behavior, allowing it to affect them and cause a truthful reaction.

Students then apply this strong beginning in their ability to “live truthfully” to modern scene work. The second half of the class is devoted to a heightening of this sense of truth and the actors’ emotional depth through more improvisational work and scenes.

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SHAKESPEARE INTENSIVE

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This acting class will give you a well-rounded background to understanding and preparing a Shakespeare performance.

ACTOR DEMO REELS

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Need a Demo Reel or Want to Add To Your Existing Demo Reel? Call (310) 392-0815 for more information.

CASTING DIRECTOR WORKSHOP

This is a top Los Angeles Casting Director Workshop with Emmy nominated casting director Natalie Hart whose casting credits include: Heroes, Lipstick Jungle, The Event, American Dreams, High School Musical 1, 2 & 3, and Touch.

 

ACCENT REDUCTION

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Free the natural voice from obstacles that block full expression. This course will introduce the student  to the Standard American Dialect. Actors will be required to perform one monologue-fully memorized and in front of the class using Standard American Dialect. It is to be chosen from a Contemporary source. The Contemporary monologue can be from a film, TV show, or from the theatre.

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This class is taught by Barbara Bragg who holds an MFA from Yale Drama School.

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SCRIPT ANALYSIS

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This is a class for Actors, Writers, Directors, and anyone who is passionate about storytelling. Script analyze and work on scenes from different genres of screenplays, television, and plays such as Match Point, Tootsie, American Beauty, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Little Miss Sunshine, Golden Boy, The Rose Tattoo, Bridesmaids, My Week with Marilyn, and many more.  • Students will work through a thorough comprehension of breaking down

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• Students will work through a thorough comprehension of breaking down story, characters, conflicts, and language from dramatic and comedic scripts.
• There will be in depth discussion of all the tools an actor applies to create their performance.
• The class will help to acquire the tools to break down a story thematically and the discipline to make powerful choices whether you are auditioning for a project or have booked the part.hidden content.

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PRIVATE COACHING

Private acting coaching with Michelle will guide you in preparing your material by helping to breakdown and analyze your sides and/or scripts in depth.

FILMMAKING COURSE

Each student writes, directs, and edits on short film and/or one documentary film. The final short and/or documentary will be submitted to the Cinema at the Edge Film Festival.

COMBAT AND WEAPONS TRAINING FOR ACTORS

Learn the primary techniques of hand to hand combat (slaps and punches), all students train in learning choreography and quickly bringing fights to the performance level.

WRITING WORKSHOP

Find your voice. Tell your story.

MUSICAL THEATER INTENSIVE

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8 or 12 week intensive. Each 12 week intensive culminates in a showcase/presentation. Intensive meets every weekend or once a week, in-depth musical theatre training, one dance combination taught each week, song preparation/vocal performance and scene work.

THE STANISLAVSKI METHOD

12 week intensive. The Stanislavski method is a set of techniques used by actors to portray emotions on stage by putting themselves in the place of the character. He believed in naturalistic performances that were as realistic as possible, and invented techniques that you can use to improve your acting skills.

Acting opportunities for our students

Students study who study for 6 to 12 month have the opportunity to audition for acting parts or work/intern on our latest movies, audition for the various theater productions, and participate in our yearly film festival. These opportunities give students the chance to build their resumes and IMDB credits, through practical training. Below are links to the websites you should check out for more information:

All In Films is an independent film production company. At the helm are Michelle Danner & Alexandra Guarnieri. The mission of All In Films is to produce high-quality, independent movies geared to entertain & spark social commentary. check out the website at www.allinfilms.com. **Through the improvisational classes students have the opportunity to be part of the latest Web Series “Uncensored Hollywood” & gain IMDB credit as well as add professional reel footage.

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–Breaking into Hollywood

– Stella Adler Technique

– Meisner Acting Technique

– The Stanislavski Method

 –Uta Hagen

– Demo Reel

– On camera acting classes

– Voice & Speech Class

– Script analysis

– Musical theatre classes Los Angeles

–  Accent Reduction Classes

– Scene Study Class– Beginning/Intermediate/ Advanced

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Beginner Acting Classes | Michelle Danner Los Angeles acting school

Beginner Acting Classes for the dedicated actor at any stage of his or her career, teaching skills that can be applied easily, effectively and specifically. 

You can reach our acting school in Los Angeles at (310) 392-0815. Let us know if you have any questions about in person classes in Los Angeles or online acting classes please email us at actingschool@michelledanner.com

We are now offering the online acting classes at a reduced rate. Our acting Classes are held in virtual classrooms hosted by zoom. Free online acting classes are not available but we do have discounted online acting courses and beginner acting classes at a reduced rate. If you need an online acting coach for a skype acting coach session please email us.The Best acting classes Los Angeles to prepare you for film and television acting can be taken virtually in real time. Get LIVE interaction with your online acting coach and your classmates.