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Workshop Impressions | Impressions – Production by Ukrainian artists funded by the Goethe Institute and Artist at Risk | Podcast: Patsy Rodenburg and Mike Alfreds | 3 WEEKS ACTING – INTENSIVE PROGRAM – Next dates – November 16th to December 6th! Join the 2026 waitlist or sign up for Spring 2027 updates! Reviews | ACTING FOUNDATION Intensive 4 days – October 22th to 25th – book two or four days! | Monthly IMPRO TRAINING for Actors & Aspiring Actors – Next date end of September, 5:15 PM – Focused on active listening, quick thinking, and fearless choices. Ideal for stage and screen & monologues || SELF-TAPING Intensive with Anthony Meindl from LA – NEW DATE NOVEMBER 7th/8th || BUTOH with VANGELINE from NYC – October 12th to 16th – Almost booked out! Podcast: Butoh Musing with Vangeline – “Behind the Curtain” || ACTING II Part II end of September for 3 Week or Foundation Alumi plus experienced actors – using it as character development – role prep class) || | SCENE STUDY & SHAKESPEARE with Theatre Director Di Trevis from London || Actors Movement- transformation through Physicality with Shona Morris (UK) || * Explanation ⊕ | Flexible Payment Plans | Information: New Students – Acting beginners with little or no professional experience || TESTIMONIALS | * Ensure you receive our emails. To prevent our replies from ending up in spam, please add info@schott-acting-studio.de and kontakt@schott-acting-studio.de to your address book or safe senders list. We respond to every application we receive. If you haven’t gotten a reply from us, we kindly ask you to check your spam folder we may have already answered days or weeks ago! || MEMBERSHIP | Support our programs for actors who have had to leave their home country with a small contribution! 
Acting Foundation Intensive with Matthias Schott
October 22th to 25th, 2026 | 2 or 4 days | In Berlin (in‑person)
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We create a basis for your further work as an actor. Stanislawski and various English and American developments of his methods of Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg offer you a framework to learn the most important aspects of the art of acting. Improvisations, exercises and scene work that will stimulate your imagination and ability to transform, in order to act convincingly in front of the camera or on the stage. [read more…]
Scene Study Workshop with Director Di Trevis
October 2026 | 5 days | In Berlin (in‑person)
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This scene study workshop will cover pure acting exercises ,a detailed look at work preparation , strategies for audition and tape presentation and a highly concentrated analysis of text, actors’ stage craft and the delicate balance of technique and staying present in your professional work. Scenes will be selected from modern English texts and you will be expected to rehearse outside of class to consolidate the work. * For intermediate and advanced actors – plus foundational actors with full command of their instrument (acting, movement, voice) – ready to swap generic notes for precision tuning. Expect direct, honest feedback built to professional standards, all within a supportive space to take big, daring swings. [read more…]
The Intensive – Self-Taping with Anthony Meindl
NEW DATE NOVEMBER 7th/8th, 2026 | 2 days | In Berlin (in‑person)
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In this 2-day On-Camera Intensive, you will learn the art of great, freeing, bad-ass self taping. Get Casting Directors to watch more than 15 seconds of your tape. Start seeing yourself in the Lead Role and not just in the bit parts. Learn the Art of Self-Tapes and what makes your tape stand out. Especially in the American market. In this intensive, you will work on your audition and self-tape skills through on-camera work. Participants will submit a self tape prior to the intensive based on material provided that will be utilized during Day 1. Day 2 will be on-camera work with material that is also provided. [read more…]
3 Week Acting Program with Matthias Schott
November 16th to December 6th | In Berlin (in‑person)
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What is the process for becoming a professional actor? According to Jean Benedetti, the art of the professional actor can be divided into two categories: 1. The inner creative process. 2. The guidelines and venues that shape our outward expression. The goal is to move from general to specific. Educated imagination – informed empathy – stimulated choices. [read more…]
Butoh Workshop – Release and Stay Open with Vangeline NYC
October 2026 | 5 days | In Berlin (in‑person)
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In this workshop, Vangeline teaches participants to explore the link between receptivity and Butoh, as well as receptivity’s impact on the nervous system. This work focuses on relaxation techniques and the parasympathetic nervous system, supported by the technique of Noguchi Taiso. Noguchi Taiso or Noguchi gymnastics is the foundation of Butoh. Professor Noguchi developed this release technique between the 1950s and 1970s in Japan, in search of a method “devoid of ego or violence”. [read more…]
Shakespeare Workshop with Di Trevis
December 2026 | 4 days | In Berlin (in‑person)
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Actors are often overwhelmed by complex text. This workshop will dispel those fears and give you simple practical exercises which render the text more and more understandable and actable. We will examine the verse form, the move from prose to poetry, the complex building bricks of the great speeches with practice of the rhetorical devices which Shakespeare inherited and then brilliantly developed. We will look at an Elizabethan dance to find clues to the physical life of the characters and by the end of the workshop I would hope you would feel ready to perform a monologue in English and or German. [read more…]
On-Camera Acting Masterclass with Eric Reis
November, 2026 | 2 x 2 days – Module I & Module III | In Berlin (in‑person)
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Eric’s classes are tailored for the seasoned professional looking to sharpen their skill set and the trained actor transitioning into film & television. They’re designed to address the paradox that puzzles actors of every level of experience: namely, that being a good actor doesn’t itself lead to being an employed actor, or to landing better roles. [read more…]
Rewilding Narratives with Lori Pye, Ph.D.
August 3rd to 9th, 2026 | In Berlin (in‑person)
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Rewilding Narratives: Change the Narrative – CHange Society – An Ecological Psychology Workshop. We live with an amazingly intra-active planet that expresses complex narratives and behavior through ongoing sympoietics of energy exchange, diversity-multiplicity, composting-regeneration, change, and relationship. Humans, as ecological beings, express complex narratives and behavior through these very same planetary processes. The challenges all lifeforms face today – climate disruptions, ecocide, culturecide, and genocide – are deeply rooted in human narratives and behaviors. [read more…]
Cinematic Storytelling with Welker White and Damian Young
May 11th to 13th, 2026 | Intermediate/Experienced | In Berlin (in‑person)
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Spots for observers still available! (Directors, Actors, Writers, Camera Operators, Filmmakers). The workshop aims to provide actors with a safe, supportive, and rich environment to explore key principles in cinematic storytelling. We’ll investigate how visual stories are constructed (on the page as well as in shooting) and how this framework can liberate rather than constrain the actor’s expression. As the week progresses, we’ll apply these principles to the shooting of short, scripted scenes. Actors will work in pairs through multiples takes, in a range of camera set ups, with particular emphasis on the close-up. [read more…]
Dreamwork for Actors, Writers, Artists with Ken Barnett
October 4th to 9th, 2026 | 6 days | In Berlin (in‑person)
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Actor and teacher Ken Barnett, will return to The Schott Acting Studio for a 6-day workshop sharing the tools of Dreamwork, while focusing on using unconscious material to develop a character. Each participant is asked to choose a role to prepare and also bring in a dream to explore. The process of using Dreamwork to create a role is a beautiful, mysterious, and profoundly inspiring methodology. By engaging with fresh material from the unconscious as delivered by a dream, we find the fertile intersection between our own selves and the character. We then discover what is deeply personal about the script and how urgent it is for us to inhabit this story and character. As is true with each dream, each role becomes a new opportunity to learn, grow, and move towards wholeness: a call from one’s destiny. [read more…]
Fusing the Susan Batson & Stella Adler Methods with Matthias Schott
February 23th & 24th, 2026 | 2 days | In Berlin (in‑person)
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We combine two strong acting techniques: Susan Batson’s focus on personal truth and Stella Adler’s emphasis on creating a believable world. This singular blending establishes a complete connection, linking your core emotional truth with the character’s specific physical and imaginative existence. [read more…]