Actor's Workshop
Acting is for Everyone:
More than the perfect form, more than the
perfect pitch or stroke, it is commitment to
a story or idea that moves people. For both
the artist and audience, that is what elevates
the experience to something beyond the
mundane and expected.
The ACTORS’ WORKSHOP™ and the Pilates Stance Studio™ are offering programs which address the needs and challenges of Artists in a variety of ways, but with the singular philosophy of process over result, allowing the focus to remain consistently on that which is most important.
The Actor’s Workshop is in its fifth year, and represents the first joint YJCC and JCC theater program. Based upon the conservatory model, and taught by professional theater artists with experience in theater, musical theater, dance, film, television and commercials, we provide basic classes in acting, movement and dance, voice and singing. Students will work on scenes, monologues, songs and routines over four weeks. This work will culminate in a showcase at the end of the session.
Geoffrey Cantor
Artistic Director
A Working Actor, Geoffrey has been teaching for over ten years. Besides extensive private coaching in New York, he is currently the Artistic Director at the Bergen County YJCC. He spent three years as the Artistic Director and Artist in Residence for the JCC Association's Maccabi Artsfest.
Geoffrey is a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College with a degree in theater. He attended the National Theater Institute (Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Conn), and after College, continued his training at the Central School in London, England.
He began directing in college, and in London, he developed the play-reading series Readings at One at the Duke of York's Theater in the West End. There he directed the London premier reading of Allan Knee's The Man Who was Peter Pan, upon which the film Finding Neverland was based. Other directing credits include James Mclure's 1959 Pink Thunderbird (Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon), PREY (NYfringe 2010) Winterglass (an original piece) , Cowboys II , by Sam Shepard, and Swampland, by Craig Sabin.
As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway, offbroadway, regionally and in the UK. He has been seen on screens large and small, from films like Public Enemies to Candace Busnell's web-series The Broadroom. Geof has also been featured in over 200 television and radio commercials, most notably as The Good Listener in the Kleenex Tissue Let It Out campaign.
Course Offerings Nov/Dec
Introduction to the ACTORS' WORKSHOP™
A fun, comprehensive, and basic acting class, this will be taught over 6 weeks, in 2 hour classes. Students will be taken through a course of acting training, from improv and movement to scene study with Geoffrey Cantor and other professionals from New York. This will culminate with an informal showing of work.
Requirements: None
Rates: $220.00
Grades: 4-5, 6-8, and high-school
Limit 15 students.
Monologue and Scene Study
In an ongoing 2 hour class, actors will work on monologues, songs and scenes. Classes will also include discussion and simulated auditions. At the end of each month, there will be a showing of monologues, scenes (and perhaps music) for family and some invited guests.
Requirements: An audition with Geoffrey
(for placement purposes).
Rates: $240 for 6 sessions or $50/per
Grades: 6-8, high-school, college &
Adults. Limit 15 students.
Private Coaching
Geoffrey will be available for private
coaching by appointment, and are
subject to availability. Sessions are one
hour.
Rates: $1000 for 10 anytime sessions or $125/per individual session.