A few weeks ago, ASC offered our Summer Camp for Kids: Grades 4-7. We love having young students in the studio who are excited about beginning (and for some, continuing) their acting education. Theatre camp teaches our young students Self Confidence, Collaboration, Empathy, Creativity, Problem Solving, Accountability and Risk Taking. Acting Skills are Life Skills. Some of the activities our students participated in included: Daily warm ups- physical, vocal, and…
The Guideposts: Conflict
Guidepost #2 – Conflict by Megan Donahue The core acting curriculum at Acting Studio Chicago is based on the 12 Guideposts from Michael Shurtlef’s Audition. The concept of Conflict is essential to script analysis. Having a shared language, vocabulary and philosophy about the actor’s approach to text means that there is a consistency and a specificity to our training. In this series of posts, we invite our faculty to comment on…



