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Connection to the self and others,
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ABOUT US
Complete actors have a variety of tools at their command - an expressive and impulsive physical instrument, a strong understanding of text analysis, and heightened powers of concentration, imagination and emotional expression. We call it the BRAIN - BODY - BEING approach.
THE COMPLETE ACTOR
BEING
How are things happening. Moment - to - moment truth as a result of listening and being present.
Truthful expression of responses in action and in context
Why are things happening in the script, found through text analysis (circumstances, actions, objectives, relationships, etc.), and research
BRAIN
Identifies and builds connections
BODY
Provides access to absorb those connections and the freedom to respond
Breath, voice & speech, movement: Physical expression. Your instrument.
3 CLASSES
135
Ideal to work on something specific, like an audition piece or a habit you want to start addressing.
Valid for 2 months
Group Work
In-Person
5 CLASSES
185
Perfect for actors looking to work on individual work and group work on a semi-consistent basis.
Valid for 3 months
Group Work
In-Person
10 CLASSES
300
Perfect for those actors looking to have significant growth in their individual work, scene partner connection, and entuning with their instrument.
Experience the full approach of:
BRAIN-BODY-BEING
Valid for 4 months
Group Work
In-Person
Private Coaching (5 Sessions)
470
Focused on individual work, obstacles, and goals.
Valid for 3 months
Single Private Coaching Session
CLASSES AND BUNDLES
COACHING AND READERS
100 US dollars
75 US dollars
60 US dollars
30 US dollars
Meet Our Team
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Rico Rosetti
Company Director & Lead Instructor
Rico Rosetti has been acting, directing and training actors for over two decades. He is currently the lead acting teacher at The New York Film Academy where he teaches BFA classes in the Acting For Film and Filmmaking departments. He also teaches Voice and Speech in NYFA’s school of Journalism. Past teaching credits include classes or workshops at Rutgers University, The Pratt institute, UW-Milwaukee, Delaware County Community College, in Media, PA, The Acting Studio in Philadelphia, and The Mississippi Summer Arts Institute. He has directed plays in many places across the country, with a focus on new works, including the award-winning A Gentleman From Mississippi, which debuted Off-Broadway and toured nationally, as well as the New York premieres of Lia Romeo’s Green Whales And 5Boys.Org by Simona Semenič. Rico was a founding member in several regional companies including The Actor’s Lab Theatre of Philadelphia, The Acting Studio in Philadelphia, and Cornerstone Theater Co in Milwaukee. TV acting credits include Law & Order (prime), Homicide: Life on the Streets, The Guiding Light and All My Children. Other acting credits abound, primarily in regional theater and off-off Broadway. Rico received his MFA in Acting from Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Laila Matuk
CEO & Instructor
Laila is a New York City-based actor and writer born in Mexico City. With a background in dance and 18+ years of theater training, Laila is a fellow recipient of the New York Film Academy’s Talent-Based Scholarship, where she graduated Suma Cum Lade with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting for Film. Laila has experience both in stage and film, most notably as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (dir. Juan Carlos Roldán) presented in Mexico City and Candace in the off-off-Broadway production of The Bookstore (dir. Diana Henry) presented in New York City. In film, she most recently starred as Mare in the short film Dust (dir. Micah Spayer) and Emma in Negatives (dir. Natalia Vignolo). As a writer, Laila has placed, alongside her co-writer Lily Malm, as a Finalist at the Austin Film Festival and in The American Zoetrope Screenwriting Contest, Top 5 in Final Draft’s Big Break 2023 Screenwriting Contest, and won Best Screenplay at the Big Apple Film Festival with their feature screenplay "Scent of Marigold", among other accolades. Laila also won Best Screenplay at the Society of Secret Scholar’s Writing Competition for her short film “Inside” and is now working on a TV adaptation and an original graphic novel.
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