As actors, you must tell stories using your body and voice, arising from your imagination.
Train the instrument. Deepen the craft. Build a working life.
Acting begins in your body, voice and imagination. It reaches the scene through character, relationship, action and the demands of the story. It reaches the world through auditions, preparation and the business of performing.
At JBAS, you work across all three. Bring an audition, a scene, a song, a speech, a creative block or the desire to begin. Classes, coaching and workshops draw on six major tools, chosen for your work.
Sensory Work · Improvisation · Archetype Work · Externals · Imaging · Script and Character Analysis
Private Coaching · Online Training · Ongoing Classes · Workshops & Intensives
What we offer
Private online training is available now. Begin with a brief phone conversation with Jason Bennett. If invited, the required introductory Zoom consultation is $85 for 30 minutes. Ongoing private sessions are $250 base, with a 75-minute minimum. Four sessions: $795.
Explore the training map. Created with Gemini Notebook from the JBAS framework, it shows how instrument, craft and business connect. Select the image to enlarge it. The map is an orientation, not a fixed sequence.
If invited after your phone conversation
Your Zoom consultation
A conversation about your work, your ambition and what gets in the way. Ask your questions. Bring material if you wish. No prepared performance is required. If Jason invites you after the initial phone conversation, this $85, 30-minute Zoom consultation comes before ongoing study.
30 minutes | $85 | Zoom | Ask about a reduced fee
The Classes
Group classes
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The Instrumental Gym
Your body, voice and imagination need a workout. Physical and vocal warm-ups, improvisation, Spolin games, Boal exercises, Eric Morris instrumental work and Roy Hart extended voice. No scene to prepare.
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Scene Study / Performance Lab
Put the instrument to work. Scenes, characters, relationships and the precise choices that make performance live. On-camera work is optional.
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Voice Classes for Actors
Power. Vulnerability. The full spectrum of human sound. Voice work rooted in the Roy Hart lineage, connecting breath, sound, body and imagination.
The Intensives
Workshops & Intensives
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Archetype Workshop
The Killer. The Lover. The Evangelist. The Child. Explore distinct ways of being through voice, body and imagination, then bring that range to your characters.
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Script Analysis Intensive
Go inside a play or film script, scene by scene and character by character. Find the conflicts, relationships and choices that make it playable.
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Audition Technique Workshop
Self-tapes. Cold reads. The audition room. Train the preparation, contact and choices that let your work be seen.
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Leadership & Executive Voice Coaching
A speech has stakes. So does the silence before it. Bring breath, voice, physical presence and imaginative contact to the room you need to address.
Group inquiries
Zoom Lab
Inquire about current classes, workshops and the Zoom Lab. Confirm dates, venue, availability and fees with Jason before making plans.
Your first step is a brief phone conversation.
Financial Access
If the fee is what is stopping you, say so
Discuss what is feasible before booking. Ask Jason about a reduced fee or work-study. Any arrangement must be agreed with him.
Work-study may include helping people learn about the studio. You will never be asked to recommend something you do not believe in.
