FREE Actor Training Seminar

FREE ACTING TRAINING SEMINAR:

Sunday July 7th, 2024. 2:00pm to 4:30pm and maybe a few minutes more. :-)

The Chicago Actors Studio will be holding a rare special FREE seminar for those interested making acting a serious career choice. This seminar is designed not only for those just starting out to venture on this exciting career path, so they don’t make the same mistakes as most do in this initial stage of their journey, but also for those already vested in a career and helping to dispel the many myths out there in the business that may be stalling your dream of success. It will introduce you to a wealth of valuable and unique topics as:

Basic Skills Training - Voice and Diction - Character Development - The Actors Roadmap - On-Camera Techniques - Stage Movement - Emotional Recall - Sense Memory - Shakespeare - Improv - Effective Marketing Skills - Headshots and Resumes - Auditioning - Self-Taped Auditions - Call Backs - An Actors' Roadmap - Slate Videos - Demo Reels - Sizzle Reels - The One Sheet - The Unions - Securing An Agent - Casting Directors - Branding - Career Counselling and Marketing - Casting Sites - The Many Way Actors Sabotage Their Careers and just about everything you need to be successful.

This workshop is presented as a way of showing our appreciation for the support we have been afforded during the many years we have been turning everyday people into fine, professional, working actors. So we would like to give something back to the artistic community we serve, AND this, we feel is a perfect way to accomplish that goal, and by doing so, getting you all to start off on the right foot.

Edward Dennis Fogell, co-star on the hit TV series, "Chicago PD", will be hosting this special event. He has directed, produced, and appeared in numerous TV and Feature Film, Commercials and theatre productions, such as: Paradise Lost, Paradise Found, In The Air Tonight, Surviving The Stereotypes and Detective Story. He has worked along side such stars as Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Paul Newman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Ashley Judd, Kevin Sorbo, Josh Lucas and so many more. He has also produced, directed, and performed in many musical shows worldwide; Performed as a singer, guitarist in concerts across the United States, Japan, Korea, China, Hawaii, Yes, even here in Chicago at the Arie Crown Theatre, The Park West, and Civic Opera House etc. with such recording artists as, The Jacksons, Willie Tyler and Lester, Gallagher, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Monkeys, Donna Summers, Frank Sinatra Jr, Jerry Lewis, Tony Randall and the list goes on. Schedules permitting, he may also possibly be accompanies by Hollywood film and TV star, Michelle Burke who also is a teacher here at The Chicago Actors Studio. Michelle brings an impressive wealth of experience that extends from starring in the iconic cult film “Dazed and Confused”; she was Connie Conehead in the hilarious hit “Coneheads”; she was Charlie Sheen’s girlfriend in “Major League 1” and 2; “The Last Don”; “LOL” and just too many credits to list.

Reminding you again this seminar is FREE to attend and our goal is to reach out to help those that are actually serious about a professional career in the performing arts. Plus helping those that find themselves physically challenged, unable to afford the right training is also part of our primary objective and offering free training to qualifying first responders; immediate family members of fallen service members and more.

May we leave you with this final thought: Never allow “fear” to control your life and prevent you from going after what you want and deserve. You absolutely deserve everything this beautiful life has to offer. So to start off with, may we suggest to allow common sense to prevail and arrive early.

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