Wherever you are in the world, you can study with Jason Bennett via live video conference -- it's amazing. All New York acting classes are on-camera and you may check out and use our professional cameras anytime for free! Go here to read about New York On-Camera Acting Classes.

Potential students are required to take a trial acting class before being admitted to the school -- or to have a private coaching session with Jason Bennett.

Our basic New York acting classes meet once or twice per week. They are currently in session and we are accepting new students.

Basic New York Acting Classes with Jason Bennett

The format for basic acting classes is fun, efficient and very intense. Our respected faculty members sometimes teach alongside Jason Bennett in this New York acting class, allowing you exposure to many ways of approaching acting, voice and movement.

In this New York acting class:

• You learn the basic tools of elite professional actors: basic archetype work, imagination work, relaxation, stretching, breathing, movement, vocal exploration, sensory work, ensemble games and more.

• You explore the ingredients of great acting, including: urgency/heightened energy, specificity, making discoveries, spontaneity, internal struggle, vulnerability, universality, creating intense relationships with other characters and more.

• You cultivate moment-to-moment living as an actor, learning to work off of other actors through improvisation and relationship building.

• You do powerful individual exercises designed to "free" and develop your body, voice, emotional expression and imagination.

• You learn diverse warm-up routines, connecting you to all kinds of archetypes and states of being.

• You learn how to access any intense state of being on cue, using all kinds of acting tools.

• Jason Bennett's talks cover many vital topics -- script analysis; geopolitical events in movies and plays; rehearsal techniques; relaxation; archetype work; sensory work; improvisation; imaging; the ethics of a professional actor; characterization tools; researching a role; the actor's voice, body, imagination; -- and more.

Basic New York Acting Class Schedule: Monday OR Tuesday Nights: 6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Class size averages 12 students per class. Classes are $195 per four classes. You may attend as many acting class meetings as you want each month. To have an initial consultation with Jason Bennett and if you have any questions, please feel free to call us at 212-777-7603. Calls are usually returned within a few days.