Open to experienced actors and working professionals from all training backgrounds, this ongoing workshop offers the actor not only a clear and practical audition technique, but also a specific approach to film & TV work, script analysis and interpretation, cold readings, and character work.

The Studio uses the latest state of the art hi-definition camera equipment, and you can see your work on our 50" plasma TV/monitor.

Develop an arrogance about your ability to apply your craft to any audition situation, even cold readings. Forever erase feelings of anxiety and insecurity when auditioning. Get the role!

Students will learn the intricate (and potentially lucrative!) craft of on-camera commercial acting. Each class they will work on-camera and then view their performances. They will learn the many essential elements of the business – acting for the camera, the unique qualities and demands of commercial copy, casting calls, agent representation, unions, call-backs, bookings, contracts, terminology - and much more. Students will get lots of practice auditioning with text on camera. They will excel quickly by being able to view their work and by getting feedback from an instructor who’s eager to share her vast experience and knowledge in a non-competitive and supportive environment.

Gordon Jacoby, Ph.D. is a legendary instructor of speech, diction, and dialects. Actors he has worked with include: Nicolas Cage, Joan Plowright, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston, Bob Hoskins, and Olympia Dukakis. Studio films include: "Avalon", "Enemies: A Love Story", and "The Cotton Club." Dr. Jacoby provides written materials and all sessions are taped. The tapes of the sessions, along with Gordon's written materials allow students to continue perfecting speech and dialects for years to come. Dr. Jacoby is also available for private sessions.

Students will explore the essential tools and develop the necessary skills for the physical craft of acting. Class work will focus on increasing physical and sensory awareness, freeing the body of habitual patterns, and accessing the emotions that reside in the body. Students will augment their ability to experience, create, and express their inner lives physically, truthfully, and specifically. They will learn and individualize a series of warm-up exercises aiding in character metamorphosis. They will work with internal and external images, along with other sources to craft acting choices that are tension-free, dynamic, and transformative. All class work is applied to text. physics – the science that deals with motion, matter, and energy, and their interactions.

Some Studio Members, after completing the 3-phase program of study, may choose to continue honing their craft as members of The Advanced Workshop.

The Advanced Workshop, in its role as an ongoing workshop, offers an exhilarating environment in which active and former members of the studio, advanced actors, and working professionals of the highest caliber, can feel safe enough to risk failure and therefore challenge themselves, keep limber, and grow as artists. Associate members of the studio, which include writers, directors, producers, and other industry professionals, can also participate and contribute to workshop activities. With Mr. Bardy's permission, workshop members and associate members may develop and produce their own projects, plays, one-man/woman shows, television productions, independent films etc.

The detailed role of The Ted Bardy Studio in the development of these projects will be discussed in advance. With Mr. Bardy's permission, selected workshop members may choose to self-produce a professional showcase of their work. These presentations will be conducted in a showcase theater with an audience that is open to the public including industry professionals. Professional work in productions that grow out of projects developed in the Studio may be available. Our goal is to produce projects and cast them exclusively from the talented, well-trained pool of Ted Bardy studio members.