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Playhouse West Acting School & Theater Company

Well, I finally grabbed my courage & decided to audit a class at Playhouse West in North Hollywood; despite my commitment to attend Aaron Speiser School of acting. Based on my audit, and many great things I have heard of Playhouse West I decided to not attend Aaron Speiser School of acting. First off, in my humble opinion, Playhouse west teaches the original Meisner Method. Meisner himself taught at playhouse west for years. In addition, playhouse west is the simply the best in industry and produced (and still does) fine actors who actually get drafted right out of school into top production shows, movies, et al such as Cold case, and too many to names !!!!!!! In addition, the founder of Playhouse west is no less than Mr. Jeff Goldbum himself, you know that oh so famous actor who plays in Independence Day along Will Smith, & in Jurassic Park, the fly, and damn, just too many to names !

I started my first class yesterday, each classes are 3 hours long & take place twice a week. In addition rehearsal between classes is mandatory, the training is intense and we are also automatically eligible to be drafted directly into Playhouse West own theatrical company, yes! PHW (playhouse West) has its own theatrical company which has produced hit plays widely acclaimed by newspaper such as the L.A Times & New York Times. One unique feature of PHS is that it’s one of the very FEW schools to have its own theatrical company in the U.S. Anyway, getting back to my first day at PHW. ..

I must say that I had the butterflies and was hoping that Mr. Tony Savant would not call my name since I was the newest person in class, I was really hopping that, but surely enough, what do you know, my name got called out ! I was instructed to step on stage & practice with this guy also fairly knew by the name of Patrick, Patrick by the way has also been assigned as my rehearsed buddy! It is obvious that I must have made a FOOL out of myself, there, with no PRIOR experience whatsoever. The exercise was so raw yet so basic. My job was to simply REPEAT whatever my partner said, but not just imitate rather listening and living in the moment as opposed to repeating & acting. Five minutes later, I went back to my seat, embarrassed to say the least. Thinking back on it, I was so NERVOUS, all these people looking at me, the frenchie & all and feeling as if I was naked. I could hear many voices in my head, like girl you crasy, what are you doing on that stage just second-guessing myself. My shoulders were stiff ! Man ! C’est vraiment incroyable, it’s incredible. 3 Hours of class, the information throughout the class was totally overwhelming, to add salt to injury, I had a migraine, and half the stuff mad sense, however, the rest, just felt like learning a new language !! Just lost in Translation, raw, naked emotions, feeling exposed, vulnerable, a real emotional roller coaster..
Quelle experience !