Open to actors with a serious commitment to creating work that is both truthful and daring. Level of experience is less important than the actor’s willingness to explore and develop a way of working that allows the true self to be revealed in the work. A series of exercises and improvisations create a fundamental groundwork that allows actors of all levels to break through self-consciousness and the temptation to indicate the work rather than live it honestly. Text work, movement, and voice exercises free the actor from personal tensions and ticks that get in the way of relating truthfully. The actor can then more fully trust his or her own instincts and impulses, and through the increasing clarity of these instincts and impulses, find transformation in the work.

Applying the fundamental groundwork developed in the introductory class to scene work, this advanced level class introduces a body of physical, intellectual, intuitive, and emotional work which takes the actor toward building the character. By discovering the intentions and energies underneath the words, the actor finds truthful choices that support the text. Scene work is structured for the student to meet the resistances within him or herself and to stimulate the ultimate possibility of growth. Admission to the Advanced Level Class is by audition and interview, or completion of the Introductory Class

Develops the reservoirs and inner resources the individual actor is often unable to bring to the surface, allowing the actor to develop fuller, richer, and more complex characters. Each actor finds increasingly deeper possibilities of true acting without putting on external disguises. The work involves writing and performing scenarios that will challenge the actor’s less developed sides, always revealing rather than eternalizing, and investigating the means to get inside a character with whom the actor does not immediately identify.

Tom works with a very limited number of private students for whom he designs a specific program.