Logie award-winning actor Jeremy Shadlow is running acting classes at the Baroque Room in Katoomba.
Shadlow, who won his Logie for best performance by a juvenile for A Country Practice, has worked with Ben Mendelsohn, Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill and Bryan Brown, Sarah Jessica-Parker, Noah Taylor and Julie Christie.
He studied the famous Meisner technique for five years in Sydney and then taught it in Sydney. The technique, created by Sanford Meisner, colleague to Lee Strasberg, has been used by Jim Carrey, Robert Duvall, Dustin Hoffman and Sandra Bullock just to name a few.
Any emoting that doesn't come from the other person is what he teaches students to work against.
His Act Without Acting classes run every Tuesday night from 6pm in the Carrington’s classic Baroque Room that is being transformed into a performance space for the arts community.
The classes are unlike any other where a specific technique is conducted and mastered. Meisner teaches to "live truthfully in your imaginative circumstances" while affecting the other person to achieve the characters' scene objective. Any emoting or "acting" that doesn't come from the other person is what he teaches his students to work against.
Act Without Acting introduces a scene throughout each 10-week term whilst working on the Meisner layers, to build a solid skill set in each actor they can confidently carry into their professional pursuits.
As Act Without Acting grows in popularity, more classes will be added to accommodate. Contact Shadlow at thejermed@hotmail.com or 0416 188 610.