Acting Classes at Susan Batson Studios -

Is there an artist living in you? Do you remember that dream you had of being an actor?

Now is your chance to live it.

A once in a lifetime opportunity to let the artist free that lives in your creative haven for actors with truth power and greatness serving as its foundation located in the heart of the Theater District in New York City Times Square.



Susan Batson Studio over a variety of workshop to choose from, we offer an improvisation class to the on-Camera Technique class.

Monthly unlimited classes as well as a la carte pricing for drop-in classes that can be purchased in the office:

Body Awareness (Mondays at 3pm-5pm $40),

Improvisation (Tuesdays at 10am to 3pm $60),

Industry Prep (Tuesdays at 5pm to 11pm and Wednesdays at 10am to 1pm $85),

Ex-er Actor (Wednesdays through Sundays at 6:30pm to 11pm $60),

Sensory (Tuesdays at 6:30pm to 11pm $60),

Speech: Fundamentals of Diction (Thursday at 3:30-5:30 $50).

Ex-er Actor and Sensory class can be purchased on our website, however, all other drop-in classes can only be purchased in the studio.



About Susan Batson

Actor, writer, director, producer, teacher, and acting coach Susan Batson has been called an "alchemist" by the New Yorker. In private consultation on film sets all over the world and in her New York acting studio, Susan Batson has enjoyed the privilege of working with Nicole Kidman, Juliette Binoche, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Tom Cruise, Kerry Washington, Zac Efron, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, Sean Combs, Liv Tyler, Jennifer Connelly, Kirsten Dunst, Janet Jackson, Rihanna and countless other actors searching for truthful connections between themselves and the characters they play. Nicole Kidman, who has worked closely with Susan for more than twelve years, hails her as a uniquely insightful acting coach with "a hell of a lot of pure talent," while Oscar winner Juliet Binoche praises Susan's ability to "shake you like a tree and get the fruits down." Susan Batson was publicly thanked by Kidman after receiving her Oscar for The Hours (2002), and by Tom Cruise in his Golden Globes acceptance speech for Magnolia (1999).



Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Batson began her lifelong excursion into the art of acting at Adele Thane's Boston Children's Theater. She graduated from Emerson College's Theater Arts Program and received a John Hay Whitney Fellowship to study with Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof in New York. She was in the original cast of Hair and became a protégé of theater legend Joseph Papp and Harold Clurman. She is a member of the Actors Studio and a recipient of a New York Drama Critics Award, an LA Drama Critics Award, and an Obie. She has worked with directors like Spike Lee, Michael Haneke, Erik Poppe, Kim Farrant, and Jane Campion to name a few. Susan Batson was also a producer of the hugely successful Broadway revival and television production of A Raisin in the Sun, (2007) (TV), starring Sean Combs.



Susan Batson is the author of the book "Truth: Personas, Needs, and Flaws In The Art of Building Actors and Creating Characters" and has been profiled in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Variety, the Hollywood Reporter, and Backstage.