PASSIONATE ACTOR RETREAT 2025
NEXT START DATE: August 18th to 22nd, 2025
FULL RETREAT DETAILS
Jumpstart your learning. Get the knowledge you need before you practice your craft. The Actor's Foundry is not just an acting class it is an online acting community where an actor can acquire the skills to enhance and push their career forward. Every actor in class at The Foundry is required to be a part of the Online Foundry Community. FIRST MONTH IS FREE!
NEXT ROUND:
WEDNESDAYS at 10AM (PST)
This is a remote learning opportunity for actors everywhere, following the FOUR WEEK FOUNDRY PROCESS of regular scene study. Regular weekly conditioning for the hard working professional actor ONLINE. This four-week class format provides rigorous and passionate exploration Story, Emotion, and Focus’. Expertly designed to push artistic and professional growth for the professional/working actor.
Actors participating will be sent scenes in advance...actors may choose to work from either: (1) monologues, (2) audition scenes, (3) or with a partner on a full scene.
(LEVEL II)
THURSDAYS at 5pm in Vancouver
THIS IS A FOUR WEEK CLASS...one class per week, on THURSDAYS live in studio
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Regular weekly conditioning for the hard working professional actor. This four-week class format provides rigorous and passionate exploration of the ‘Three Pillars of Acting: Story, Emotion, and Focus’. Expertly designed to push artistic and professional growth for the professional/working actor.
Film or Theatre scenes that challenge you to tackle what’s in front of you in your artistic growth are assigned in advance. You will work it for four weeks:
NEXT DATES: MONDAYS at 5pm in Vancouver
BY INVITATION ONLY
For invites only in Vancouver. This is a chance to get an acting workout with only top notch, shit hot working actors...for some inspiration and hard work. We will get to go deep into directing the scene - we work, play, adjust, switch it up, and throw the scenes around in a four week work-a-thon. This is for actors who have worked with Matthew extensively and have excelled at their craft. This is for actors who don't mind getting kicked around to get the work to be its best. This is hard work and hard play. It's for Grad actors who want a high-end peer group.
WEEKEND INTENSIVES
VANCOUVER, NYC, LOS ANGELES, LONDON, CAPE TOWN, TORONTO, KELOWNA, CALGARY
This workshop is renowned as an AWAKENING experience. Hundreds and hundreds of actors have proclaimed that their career, artistic, and even life perspective has shifted because of this workshop.
Through RIGOROUS process...and the CLEAR and PRACTICAL TOOLS every actor needs, participants are thrown levels ahead in their work ... in one weekend.
- articulate and immersive story analysis to prepare the actor
- intensive focus exercises to draw the actor out
- electrifying emotional preparation to explore the worlds of imagination and experience
This exciting and eye-opening immersion of process gift the actor with a celebration and exploration of:
being CONNECTED IN THE MOMENT
being CONNECTED TO YOUR SELF... for the best telling of the STORY
Freeing and inspiring...the Foundry Intensive is the foundation of The Foundry itself.
VANCOUVER - IN STUDIO: Saturday/ Sunday
The COMEDY INTENSIVE prepares actors for their comedy auditions, comedy set work, and comedy stage work by working from scenes culled from comedy pilots, series, and film... given in advance.
COMEDY takes DISCIPLINE! Off book. Playing off the partner. Living the emotional circumstances. And finding the moments...AND ALSO knowing the comedic approach. Knowing COMEDIC scene analysis. Absorbing comic scene structure. Knowing and Playing the Rules of Comedy.
By investigating how to approach comedy, actors also explore how these comedic rules apply to their dramatic scenes as well.
A MASTER ACTOR knows both comedy and drama...