National, State and Local Small Business Awards Success

Screen Actors Workshop voted Outstanding Educational Service 2012 Northern Beaches Local Business Awards

We’re thrilled to win the Outstanding Education Service award for 2012! This is our second win in three years and we’d like to thank our dedicated staff and our wonderful students for their encouragement and ongoing support. We couldn’t do it without you!

2010 Awards

We were pleased and proud to win the Outstanding Educational Service award at the 2010 Northern Beaches Local Business Awards.

Happy to receive this incredible acknowledgement for our achievements over the years in helping people from all walks of life to improve themselves through the craft of acting and for others to achieve their dreams of an acting career.

Australian Small Business Champion Awards: Finalist 2013; Finalist 2010

Northern Beaches Local Business Awards: Winner 2012; Finalist 2011; Winner 2010

NSW/ACT Small Business Champion Awards: Finalist 2009

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Wooden Acting

When an actor’s performance is described as “wooden,” what does that mean? Basically it means that the performance is forced, in other words, the feelings and emotions are “acted,” not felt. Good acting is living in the moment and truthfully experiencing what the character is feeling emotionally from moment to moment. Wooden acting can be […]

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The first step in commencing your budding acting career is to find the right acting school and, most importantly, the right acting teacher for you. If you want to learn stage acting then you have a wide choice of institutions. If you want to study screen acting, the choices are limited. But the most critical […]

Truthful Acting

Truthful acting means just that. It means don’t ACT for the camera but instead have an experience! Feel what the character is feeling from moment to moment and immerse yourself fully into the role. The camera is a great bullshit detector and if you’re “acting” then the camera will immediately read the performance as phony […]

Commitment

It’s one thing to apply for a full-time acting course after completing high school when you have plenty of free time and access to resources such as Hex, Austudy or Abstudy. But what if you’re a mature age student? How can you learn how to act while juggling a full-time job and family commitments? If […]

Learning Lines

Whether for stage or screen you must learn your lines. There is no excuse. As veteran British actor Bill Nighy says: “You must know your lines inside out and back to front.” If you don’t know your lines then you are not connected to either the moment or to the other actor(s). There are numerous techniques […]