{"id":1056,"date":"2011-05-09T06:45:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T06:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2019-01-22T07:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T07:01:23","slug":"alan-nurthen-going-back-to-being-a-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/become-famous\/alan-nurthen-going-back-to-being-a-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Nurthen: Going Back To Being A Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SCAN6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1057 aligncenter\" title=\"news\" src=\"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SCAN6-675x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SCAN6-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SCAN6-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SCAN6.jpg 1830w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alan Nurthen has what it takes to teach because he has been in show  business for a long time. He has worked as an actor, producer, writer and director. \u00a0In his youth, he was also a surfboard maker for 9 years, travelling the world and gaining valuable life experience.<\/p>\n<p>After a successful film production stint, he now wants to return to doing what he finds most satisfying and fulfilling: training actors. When he closed his school, the Dee Why <em>Film and Television Acting Academy in 1996<\/em>, he focused on his video and film productions with his company\u00a0<em>Aeon Independent Film and Television Productions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Alan&#8217;s new school, the Screen Actors Workshop, is the perfect creative outlet for his skills<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The film-making, along with my experience as a film and television actor, has given me a lot of new skills and I figure these classes are a good way to pass it on to my students,&#8221; <\/em>Nurthen said.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere really is a dearth of on-camera teachers in Sydney as theatre training is over catered for. It is a very specialised area and you have to be dedicated to teaching the craft rather than chasing the big bucks as an actor. You really need a wide variety of skills. You need to be able to relate to a wide range of people obviously, and you need a fairly warped sense of humour. <\/em><em>You have to have knowledge in the craft of acting itself. You have to have production skills. You have to be a teacher, director, producer, and you have to be a shoulder to cry on. <\/em><em>But to have all of these skills together took me years and years of experience\u201d, <\/em>he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Nurthen has what it takes to teach because he has been in show business for a long time. He has worked as an actor, producer, writer and director. \u00a0In his youth, he was also a surfboard maker for 9 years, travelling the world and gaining valuable life experience. After a successful film production stint, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[47,51,8,46,50,18,40,49,48,52,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.screenactorsworkshop.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}