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As a graduate of the Evening Conservatory in 2022, my time at Atlantic provided an ideal environment to hone my craft, consolidate my skills, and springboard into the professional world. Prior to enrolling at Atlantic, as an actor with more than a decade of experience and training in academic and community theater, I realized that grad school would not be a financially viable option for me at this stage (and age), so I was looking for a program that would fit into the constraints of life and still offer rigorous conservatory training.

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Summer Intensive alum Charmaine Bingwa (“The Good Fight”) discusses how the program prepared her for the rigor and dedication required by a professional career in TV and film.

Hello and Hola! I’m Marcy Roche, an actor currently based in Miami, FL, of Cuban and Irish heritage. Living in Miami, I enjoy a multicultural experience, ranging from sipping my cafecito to the occasional autumn pumpkin spice latte and learning of global insights.

Susan Myhr Fritz writes about Atlantic's Global Virtual Conservatory in the latest blog from Atlantic Theater Company.

Writer and actor Kyle Dunn blogs about his experience at the Atlantic Acting School Summer Intensive in 2020. Atlantic’s Summer Intensive invites actors to our studios in New York City for an immersive six weeks. Through scene study, script analysis, and rehearsal, students study Practical Aesthetics, Atlantic’s signature acting technique, and take weekly guest classes from working industry professionals.

Atlantic has been my artistic home since 2001.  I began as an acting student at Atlantic’s NYU program before moving on to direct and choreograph shows for Atlantic Acting School. Eventually, I found myself on staff as the School Artistic Director.

Atlantic Acting School alum (and current Coordinator of Student Affairs - NYU) Mahima Saigal spoke with us about her experience at Atlantic and how it prepared her for being a working actor and, most recently, a director!

Every Monday at 5:30pm I enter the Google Building in New York City through a pair of gigantic glass double doors. This ritual upon first examination appears grossly quotidian, but upon further, much deeper reflection it occurs to me that there was I time I felt like buckling at the knees at the very thought and anticipation of what awaited me behind those slender silver studded doors.

Summer Intensive alum Charmaine Bingwa ('The Good Fight') discusses how the program prepared her for the rigor and dedication required by a professional career in TV and film.

“To be an actor is to be.” This quote has set the foundation for everything I do in life. It was one of the first things I heard when I began Atlantic’s Staging Success program my freshman year of high school, where once a week my classmates and I met with acting teachers from Atlantic Acting School. This is a privilege that many children are not able to experience and I am so thankful that I did.

This month's blog from Atlantic Theater Company comes from Christopher Jewels-Booth, Atlantic Acting School Director of Admissions.

Several of my teachers have said, “part of this first year is about getting comfortable being uncomfortable.” Generally, this statement means two things:

One of the most important lessons that I learned during my time at Atlantic Acting School’s Evening Conservatory was to trust the journey because you never know where it will take you.

About a week after the ball dropped in Times Square and ended 2020, I swore off acting on Zoom. It had been a good run. I hadn’t reached the decision out of frustration or disappointment. I was just burned out. From the beginning of lockdown in New York to the start of 2021, I was acting into my computer anywhere between two and nine times a week: improv shows, improv classes, sketch shows, character classes, a Shakespeare play, a film noir radio play—if I had the time I would do it. While these shows and classes were fun and stimulating, acting day after day in my bedroom, to my laptop, was getting exhausting. I planned to step away for a little while to choose my next move. Enter: Atlantic Acting School.

This workshop led by Atlantic Acting School Artistic Director Reggie D. White is a scene study class set to the words and worlds of prolific playwright August Wilson. Watch and learn as Atlantic students Suzen Baraka and DJ Davis perform a scene from Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, using our analysis technique to find the freedom in the beauty of Wilson's language.

IAN ARIC: Ian is a 27 year old veteran currently attending Atlantic Acting school. Outside of school, Ian is a playwright and screen writer. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Lexi and his dog Luna.

For the final session in our spring #TechniqueTuesdays series, we gathered an expert panel to discuss Atlantic Acting School's world-renowned technique, Practical Aesthetics. Although all of these master teachers studied the technique themselves, they each have slightly different views on how to apply it. Watch and learn from some of the best: Clark Gregg, Karen Kohlhaas, Chivonne Michelle, Anya Saffir, and Reggie D. White!

The hustle and bustle of New York was the perfect backdrop for the intensity that was the 2018 Summer Intensive at the Atlantic Acting School. It was such beautiful opportunity to take a deep dive into the Practical Aesthetics methodology.