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35+ Years TV/Film Industry Coaching Experience

35+ Years TV/Film Industry Coaching Experience

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One of Toronto’s most respected acting teachers, Miriam Laurence trains, coaches and directs actors.

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According to the needs of the individual actor, Miriam’s approach integrates:

  • Audition Skills: monologues for theatre, cold reading and improvisation
  • On-Camera Skills: Practical and organic
  • Scene Study: short and prepared & long-term study with partner(s)
  • Body Integration: Strasberg relaxation (chair work), sense memory and Song & Dance
  • Multi-faceted Approach: Adler, Hagen & Meisner method approaches

Miriam Laurence’s Integrated Acting System (IAS) helps actors of all levels to integrate these components into an intuitive, decisive, personal technique while developing their own individual acting style.

 

When a director asks for a specific result, how do you translate that direction
into immediate action while relaxing and following your intuition?

All fine actors know that training involves a long process that leads to a personalized way of working derived from a variety of techniques. Good acting has always evolved from an understanding of the many aspects of the actor’s instrument.

Miriam Laurence’s Integrated Acting System (IAS) enables actors to discover an individualized technique. Classes are supportive and ongoing, with special attention paid to the process of constructive feedback. Generally, actors have found that taking more than one studio session adds to their process. It builds their technique and forces them to take risks more effectively than does going from teacher to teacher. Using the theory that no single approach works for all actors, IAS draws from the training techniques and philosophies of the interpreters of Stanislavsky (Boleslavsky, Adler, Strasberg, Meisner, Clurman, Hagen and Shurtleff).

The actor’s instrument is tuned by challenging and stretching all of its contributing components: vocal, physical, sensorial, intellectual and emotional.

Linklater voice techniques, body alignment and physical releasing are part of this process. The more analytical aspects of the craft are also covered. This process gradually leads to an actor’s continuous advancement in scene study.

Special attention is paid to the technique of acting with the camera. Cold reads, monologues and scenes are filmed on HD video cameras. Students supply their own disk and take it home for private viewing at the end of the session.

 

 

“One of Canada’s foremost acting teachers, Ms. Laurence’s clear and no-nonsense approach to the art of acting will benefit everyone; from the novice starting out to the seasoned pro needing to refocus his or her skills.” Richard + IMDb (Actor: The Listener, Suits, Covert Affairs, The Kennedys, The Bridge, Murdoch Mysteries, Puppets Who Kill, Earth: Final Conflict, Soul Food, Nikita)

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RICHARD ZEPPIERI

“Working with Miriam inspired me in my writing by exploring the layers that occur under and around the spoken word. The work in her class integrated the physical, the emotional and the dramatic in a way that led to some of the most interesting and original moments between actors that I’ve seen.” Semi Chellas + IMDB (Executive Producer: The Romanoffs, Mad Men, The Eleventh Hour | Director: American Woman | Screenwriter: The Eleventh Hour, Rookie Blue, Being Erica, Picture Claire, The Life Before This | Actor: Twitch City, The Life Before This) 

SEMI CHELLAS

MIRIAM’S COACHING EXPERIENCE ON FILM/TV

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IAS STUDIO LOCATION
643 Yonge Street Toronto, ON | close to the Bloor/Yonge Subway Station

Entrance is to the left of Roberts Gallery – buzz "Studio" to enter
miriam.laurence@gmail.com

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