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 + Cinematic Storytelling new date April 2026 | ACTING FOUNDATION Intensive 4 days – March! | Acting II – February | BUTOH March with Vangeline from NYC – 7th to 12th – Podcast: Butoh Musing with Vangeline – “Behind the Curtain” Recorded in Berlin Schott Acting Studio | Anton CHEKHOV Workshop with theatre director Di Trevis from London | BRECHT Workshop with Brecht Expert Prof. David Barnett from Oxford | SUSAN BATSON, Lee Strasberg + Stella Adler Technque Training with Matthias Schott | REWILDING NARRATIVES: Chenge the Narrative – Change Society | * Explanation ⊕ | Flexible Payment Plans | Information: New Students – Acting beginners with little or no professional experience. | MEMBERSHIP – A membership offers many benefits for only €135, including training sessions, reduced workshop fees, and a €100 credit for your next workshop. In the end, you pay only €35 per year, with many benefits. | Support our programs for actors who have had to leave their home country with a small contribution! 
3 Week Acting Program with Matthias Schott + Cinematic Storytelling
April 2026 – May, 2026 | 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…]
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…]
Chekhov Workshop – Scene from Chekhov Plays with Di Trevis
March 2026 | 4 days | In Berlin (in‑person)
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This four-day workshop will focus on the plays of Chekhov as a starting point for actors to explore text, character, period, the power and limits of Stanislavski technique , discovering an acting approach that focuses “not just on realism but truth “. We will work towards scene studies and scenarios which will be shown on the last day to a small invited audience . * Intensive exercises , dance and research , with some partner work outside of workshop hours , envisaged. [read more…]
Acting Foundation Intensive with Matthias Schott
March 26th to 29th, 2026 | 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…]
Butoh Workshop – Release and Stay Open with Vangeline NYC
March 2026 | 6 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…]
On-Camera Acting Masterclass with Eric Reis
March, 2026 | 2 days Level I & 2 x Level II | 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…]
Cinematic Storytelling with Welker White and Damian Young
May 11th to 13th, 2026 | Intermediate/Experienced | In Berlin (in‑person)
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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…]
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…]
The Intensive – Self-Taping with Anthony Meindl
December 13th & 14th, 2025 | 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…]