Member: SAG - AFTRA - AEA
Portland, Oregon
Relaxation is the key - Reacting is the core
It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or an experienced stage actor; film and TV acting can be a baffling and sometimes terrifying experience. How to develop the inner emotional life of a character, how to react – not perform, how to feel relaxed, comfortable and focused when the director says “Action” is the key to a creative and natural on camera performance. That’s what this film acting class is about. You’ll be on camera each week and your final work will be transferred to a DVD for your actor’s reel.
Lana Veenker, Portland Casting Director for Leverage, Twilight, and many, many other film, television and commercial projects speaks about the importance of actor's training. Click the here to see the video.
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Shelly Lipkin is an actor, director, playwright. He was Co-Artistic Director of Cygnet Productions from 2000 to 2003 where he co-authored, produced and starred in Vitriol & Violets – Tales From The Algonquin Round Table which won the 2004 Oregon Book Award for Drama. His second play, Sylver Beaches, was also nominated for an Oregon Book Award. At Artist Repertory Theatre he has starred in The Clean House, Blue/Orange and Gross Indecencies; at Profile Theatre he starred in The Price and Sisters Rosensweig and starred in Twelfth Night with Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company. He has also performed with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Santa Fe Repertory Theatre, PCPA in Santa Maria, and other theatres across the country. Prior to moving to Lake Oswego he spent 20 years in Los Angeles as a television and film actor. Shelly also teaches acting and directing at The Art Institute of Portland, Clark College, Northwest Children’s Theatre and Lakewood Theatre.
Call: 503-803-6576 Email: shellylipkin@yahoo.com