Sydney
Short Courses, National Actors Intensives, Casting Workshops, Director Workshops and Weekend Intensives
“I learnt countless amounts of skills and traits at TAFTA that I couldn’t have done without and I’ve used them now and in the past for Tomorrow When the War Began and other projects.”
Deniz Akdeniz - (Tomorrow When the War Began, Agents of Shield, Siren, Once Upon a Time)
Emotions #2 Intensive with John Orcsik
If you have completed Emotions #1 with John and are ready to expand your emotional range even further reserve your spot now!
Learn to:
Make powerful choices in a scene that are connected to your emotions
Exploring different emotions in challenging, complex and demanding scenes
Using emotions as a tool to tell the story, not just to express emotion
Creating a unique, connected and powerful performance that will stand out in the audition room.
Impulse & Emotions Intensive with John Orcsik
This course is about getting out of your head.
The two factors are indistinct yet relative. How does your impulse in a single moment or multiple impulses in an entire scene impact on your emotions and how does an imposed or real emotion impact on your impulses.
In this advanced scene-work course you will be guided by John to give yourself permission to surrender to the moment and trust your instincts and impulses, and let them carry you to your truth in the scene.
No acting allowed.
National Actors Intensive 2022
An exhausting, but incredibly rewarding week! In six days this intensive program will give you what NO other program in Australia can do. Work with 12 of Australia’s top Industry Professionals; a rare opportunity to perform for them all and receive an instant evaluation of your work.
UK Casting Workshop with Johnny Ong
DO YOU WANT TO WORK AS AN ACTOR IN THE UK?
Johnny Ong has been working in the UK casting industry for over 7 years, and has been able to work on some of the highest profile projects filming there over that period, including: The Crown, End of the F***ing World, Casino Royale, Outlander, Ascendant and more.
Now Johnny Works as a Freelance Casting Director, frequently collaborating with Faith Martin at Faith Martin Casting!This Casting Workshop will include an interactive information session on the UK industry and how to get cast in UK projects, then working on the floor on both commercial and theatrical scenes that will be allocated by Johnny!
Emotions #1 Intensive with John Orcsik
LEARN TO HARNESS AUTHENTIC EMOTIONS ON CUE!
If you are looking for a technique that can help you become emotional on cue, take after take that doesn't require you to use real events from your past - to take all the pressure off the “Key acting moments”? Then this short course is what you’re looking for.
This technique will empower you with confidence to face with emotional beats in a scene.
Using John Orcsik’s unique method, you will learn a physiological process to express your emotions on screen, without the need to use emotional recall, sense memory, or any other potentially damaging techniques. There is no need to learn line, prepare a scene or imagine a traumatic event to prepare yourself for this class, it is just you and the technique.
Self Tape & Casting Masterclass with US Casting Director Donna Morong (Morong Casting)
Donna Morong is a respected Casting Director with over 25 years in the business. She spent 15 years at The Walt Disney Company ultimately becoming Senior Vice President of Motion Picture Casting in the feature film division, where she cast films such as “PRINCESS DIARIES”, “SHANGHAI KNIGHTS”, “10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU”, “DEUCE BIGOLO”, “ANNAPOLIS”, “CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN”. In 2008, she won an Artios Award for casting Ben Affleck’s “GONE BABY GONE” for Miramax which garnered an Academy Award Nomination for Amy Ryan.
This extended Casting Masterclass includes a submitted self tape prior to the session, feedback on your self tape, re-shooting the tape with direction, and a final call back session. Bring your A game!