The Actor's Workshop has been getting rave reviews.
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VanCort described herself as a "proud parent" when assessing her former students' myriad of accomplishments. "There is nothing more rewarding for a teacher than seeing students you adore go out into the world and succeed."
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This particular showcase is different from years past due to...the return of four accomplished alumni...Lucien Dodge, Amanda Setton, Maria [Ria] Victoria and Esosa Edosomwan...
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Under the direction of the workshop’s founder and director, Eliza VanCort, [Amanda] Setton studied the Meisner Technique, which helped her gain the vital acting skills she would need to enter a career in film....
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The idea of bringing this high-end New York City studio program to teens in Ithaca who might not otherwise have that opportunity was enough to keep VanCort bubbly and energetic...
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"There's something about getting yourself up on stage and just listening to another person that's really refreshing -- and then letting them in, letting them really affect you emotionally -- that's exhilarating."
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... the Workshop seems to stay with a student long after the classes end ... each semester is geared to equip students with skills for their acting "toolbox," which will prepare them as a musician, actor, comedian, model ...
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Spallone says that she finds teaching the class rewarding. "I love the energy of my students, the pure joy that they get onstage. I also love the fact that I'm teaching a widely diverse group..."
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Van Cort is clearly a serious and dedicated teacher, and the students seem to thrive on her nurturing approach. "I want everyone to have a growth curve," she insists. "Everyone is looked at individually in this class - this isn't a cookie-cutter program. We tailor the teaching experience."
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Not all students are new to acting--some are returning after taking a break. David Romm hadn't acted in 30 years before enrolling in VanCort's class. "The class got me started again," he says.
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At the Actor's Workshop of Ithaca, students who've been learning the Meisner Technique under the direction of Eliza VanCort over the last three years have gone on to Hollywood and television sets, New York and California playhouse stages - some have even been cast on their first auditions.
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She's so compassionate and warm that she creates this safe space to take risks, and as a result you take those risks and you move forward and you advance," Lee says. "If she didn't have that combination of intelligence and compassion and intuition for the technique, I don't think that sort of magic would happen."
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It's made me very brave as an actor and as a person. I learned to take risks, which instills bravery and lets me be completely in the moment.
- Jamie Park
I'm sure I couldn't have gotten the lead in the independent film I'm shooting without Eliza's cold reading training under my belt.
- Danielle King
I am so happy to have done this program, I've come away from this class feeling like I can act. I have the tools.
- Jess Weir
It's a few hours every week of living in the moment, in a privileged space where what matters is the truth of your immediate reactions, not the orderly and constrained judgments and actions that normal life requires.
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David Romm
