Auditioning By Heart 3-Day Intensive Workshop!

Crystal previously taught with Margie Haber at "The 3 of Us" studios in NYC, and is so excited to be back teaching in NYC once again!

2022 -  CLASS DATES TBD. TEMP ON HOLD - Health reasons

Please, see Bootcamp or Virtual Class in the Dropdown Menu.

This on-camera classes will teach professional actors how to organically prepare for film and television auditions within a short time-frame.  Actors receive new sides prior to each class and are put on tape daily.   "Auditioning by Heart" is a deep exploration of how to create a character's life from the truth through history homework.  It is practical, not theoretical, and aims to equip you with all the skills and expertise you need to become dynamic and courageous at your auditions. The training is very much student-centered - giving time for individual attention. Crystal will provide thorough, personalized critiques for each actor's performance daily.

This workshop will empower you to:

  • Rid Nerves

  • Know Your Lines “by Heart”

  • Live Truthfully Through the Life of the Character

  • Highlight Acting Ability

  • Improve Booking Rates

This course is about learning, reconnecting, and growing in your artist self. It'll help you become more aware of what it feels like to be in the moment, integrated with your character, and less alienated from your true reactions (as the character.)

In the homework, we'll use the writer's words to reveal the history, and I'll show you how to use your phone to connect your heart to that past, so that the character's silences are filled with emotion, thoughts and actions that will carry the audition for you.

It is in those silences where we all recognize ourselves.

The words take us to the character's objective, but the silences in the transitions take us to the character's soul.

By learning to speak from the character's thoughts and thru their emotions, consciously and with purpose, you allow the character's life to take over, and the audition will "come alive" by itself.

Learn to truly listen from inside the character, amid the noise of our frantic judgements and doubts as actors, so that your auditions turn into a little slice of imagined life, and move YOU as much as they move those nonexistent views on the other side of the camera.

Students will be given material (homework / sides) to prepare each night as if they were going to audition.  Students who sign up to be critiqued will be put on tape each day of the workshop.  Students who do not sign up to be critiqued will act as READERS / CASTING ASSOC for Ms. Carson when the critiqued students are put on tape.  Critiqued students will have their work played back and critiqued in front of the rest of the class, while being used to demonstrate Crystal's lessons.  Non-critiqued students will have an eye-opening experience as they come to truly understand what it feels like to be on "the other side of the table" and will discover what works and what can be improved upon from an outside perspective so they can effectively apply Crystal's technique in their own work outside of class.  All students will learn from Crystal's lectures.

$550 - Non-critiqued

$650 - Critiqued (Limited to 12 critiqued students)

To be placed on a waiting list to be notified when workshop dates are available, click here.