Welcome to The Frisch Approach, your ultimate acting school in Santa Barbara, CA. As actors and serious adults, our work is specific, constructive and imagination-based. These actor workshops are designed for students to transform and grow class by class. To achieve these goals, students are encouraged to approach their work boldly and with a spirited sense of play. They are trained to be in the habit of experimenting and working without fear. Only by taking risks can an actor fully create and inhabit a dynamic character.
_“Peter is responsible for creating the kind of actor I am today. He taught me how to truly take risks in my work, invest authentically in my characters, and expect nothing but professionalism. The method Peter taught is still one that I use today – he gave me the tools to access, emotionally and intellectually, very dense material. He allowed me to see that there is always a way that is deeper and truer than you first imagine.” _
- Julianne Moore, Academy Award, Best Actress 2015
With a thorough knowledge of the field, the master teacher emphasizes the complementary nature of proven techniques and is not tempted by competitive, isolationist dogma. Numerous approaches have valuable components – Stanislavsky, Meisner, Chekov, Strasberg, Adler, Grotowski, the classicists – all have made innovative contributions to the field. The job is to show students how these components interrelate and when techniques can best be employed. An actor has mastered the acting craft when he thinks of all techniques as tools, learns how and when to employ them, understanding and integrating their use in daily work. Thorough knowledge of the craft and a clear, working process also enables the actor to remain “director-proof,” not subject to the whims or torments of the bad or inexperienced director.
I offer many acting classes including:
The Actors Emotional Preparation
Physical and Vocal Adjustments
I have directed 160 productions in the New York and regional theatre produced 150 hours of network television in LA. I’ve been Artistic Director at Equity theatres, and Head of Drama at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, and on the conservatory faculty at Carnegie, The Juilliard School, Harvard, and Boston Universities.
Critical precision is fundamental to the best of teaching. Any leader in the arts should be measured by their ability to see and their facility to say and guide with accuracy. The arts are especially prone to vagueness and subjectivity and so it is imperative to make sure the program is clear, the progression sensible, the values clearly established, and that any criticism is based on specific, established criteria. If you'd like to learn more about all of my acting workshops and classes, contact me today at The Frisch Approach.
https://www.santabarbaraactingclasses.com/
