Under the tutelage of award-winning playwright and director, Chong Tze Chien, this rigorous 6 months acting training programme prepares talents to not only survive the creative industry but to thrive in every audition, role and show.
Acting Training Programme
By
Chong Tze Chien
Application is currently closed.
About The Programme
STEP 01
Identify Your Qualities
Through monologues and individual scene-work, you will get to work with Tze Chien to discover your “type”, strengths, and weaknesses in a safe and constructive space. You will realise your qualities and work to apply it appropriately and productively in different working contexts. test
STEP 02
Define & Refine Your Techniques
Building upon your type, Tze Chien will introduce frameworks to refine and structure your instincts for a more believable performance. You will learn the ability to tap into the emotional landscape of characters effectively and enrich your emotional sensitivity as a multifaceted actor.
STEP 03
Analyze & Memorise Scripts Effectively
Tapping on Tze Chien’s wealth of experience as an award-winning playwright, you will gain valuable script analysis techniques and tips which will help you to memorise scripts effectively that will come across as natural and organic in delivery.
STEP 04
Ace That Audition & Score That Role
Peeling back the curtains, you will have a rare chance to go behind the director’s table to hear directly from Tze Chien on what a director is looking for during an audition and how you can prepare for it and score that role. You will learn audition techniques and how to work with different directorial styles. Tze Chien will also dive deep in sharing how you can unpack the director’s brief so that you may better process feedback to deliver and excel in your role.
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What Our Students Say
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Perfect entry play for students curious about drama! The staging elements were so well-planned and are brilliant at helping students visualize what they cannot in a classroom – huge bonus for helping them break out of just reading.
Secondary School Student
Perfect entry play for students curious about drama! The staging elements were so well-planned and are brilliant at helping students visualize what they cannot in a classroom – huge bonus for helping them break out of just reading.
Secondary School Student
Course Outline
This entire training programme is designed to help you elevate your skillsets, plug your gaps and sharpen your acting instincts in the process. The main outcome of the programme is to equip you to become a multifaceted actor who will succeed in every audition, role and show.
MODULE 1
The Actor And The Emotional Core
Understand and Identify Your Qualities.
- Activating and deploying emotional memory
- Physical embodiment of emotions and characters
- Emotional conviction
- Physical/vocal expression
- Emotional truths of action and speech
MODULE 2
Acting Techniques
Define & Refine Your Techniques
- Chong Tze Chien’s Push/Pull Techniques
- Chong Tze Chien’s static/descriptive/implosion delivery techniques
- Freeing the body for performance
- Body as an instrument exercises: shape/forms/levels/breaking the line
- Connecting body language and gestures to the emotional core
MODULE 3
Script Analysis & Character Study
Analyze & Memorise Scripts Effectively
- Script analysis study (motivation and subtext)
- Triggering and activating impulses
- Hot seating and establishing backstories
- Crafting and layering emotions
- Finding informed acting choices for maximum impact “find the verb”
MODULE 4
Application And Delivery
Ace That Audition & Score that Role
- Audition techniques & mock audition roleplay
- Working with different directorial styles
- Conceptualising and amalgamating different techniques
- Scene work with different plays/genres
- Identifying, quantifying and qualifying impact on audience
BONUS MODULE
Personal Branding
Bonus Session by Derrick Chew, Artistic Director of Sight Lines
- How to package and market yourself as a performer
- How to work with your USP to stand out and differentiate yourself as a unique creative individual
- How to build a following and create regular content on social media through a systematic and simple content creation grid
- How to secure funding and sponsorships through a proven framework for funding and grant applications for your self-produced works
END OF PROGRAMME
Graduation Showcase
Finally, you will get to conceptualise and amalgamate the different techniques learnt and hone and sharpen your instincts in a graduation showcase directed by Chong Tze Chien at the end of the programme.
Who This Programme Is For
You should attend this programme if you:
1
Would like to refine your craft and enhance your script analysis techniques.
2
Are facing difficulties in elevating your skills/knowledge in your professional practice.
3
Would like to have the opportunity to meet like-minded peers and mentors.
4
Have an intermediate understanding of acting or have either graduated from Lasalle, NAFA, or other acting schools or are self-taught but have experience performing on stage.
5
Have at least 1 year of experience in stage acting.
6
Are able to commit at least 80% of the programme.
Programme Details
Programme Fees
$150 per class
Total: $150 x 4 wks x 6 mths = $3600
Eligible for up to 90% funding.
Please register by 4 August to be considered for the grant. Will be in touch with you to discuss this after receiving your application.
Programme Fees
$150 per class
Total: $150 x 4 wks x 6 mths = $3600
Eligible for up to 90% funding.
Please register by 4 August to be considered for the grant. Will be in touch with you to discuss this after receiving your application.
Applications for our 2024 Intake are currently closed. Do look out for our 2025 Intake application.