Acting Technique
(Fall 2025)
Registration is open!
Student Age: 18+
Dates: September 30–December 9, 2025
Time: 6:00–8:30 PM
Session Length: 10 Classes, One Day/Week, Tuesdays
Location: JBFC Media Arts Lab
Size: 10 Students Max
Cost: $900
Camp and Course Policies at the Lab
Acting Technique
Discover (or recover!) the actor within you through the gift of technique. Using scripts, script analysis, and other unique exercises, you will be on your feet with a sense of play on day one.
Course Dates:
September 30, October 7, October 14, October 21, October 28, November 4, November 11 – NO CLASS, November 18, November 25, December 2, and December 9
Instructor
Ruth Nerken
Ruth Nerken (BFA, Yale University) has taught at Yale, the William Esper Studio, the Screen Actors Guild, and for the last 30 years, at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. Her past students include two-time Tony Award winner Kara Young, Loren Graham, and Matt Fox. She herself has performed extensively on stage, television, radio, and in the first bus-and-truck, 2nd national company of Grease (over 50 years ago!)
