CINEMA LAB SCREENING by Megan Donahue Last month, ASC hosted a screening of the work that’s come out of Cinema Lab. A “crash course in independent film making”, the class takes students from improvisation to filming in just eight weeks. The screening featured a total of 12 short films, from four classes. Instructor Stephen Cone, a Chicago film maker, opened the evening by introducing the films. Though the films are…
The Guideposts: Relationship
GUIDEPOST #1 – RELATIONSHIP The core acting curriculum at Acting Studio Chicago is based on the 12 Guideposts from Michael Shurtleff’s Audition. In this post we introduce the very foundation of our work: RELATIONSHIP. Having a shared language, a shared vocabulary and a shared philosophy about the actors’ approach to text, means that there is a consistency and a specificity to our training. In this series of posts, we invite our…


