II. Creating Character for Young Actors

prerequisite: Core Technique
location: Welserstr. 5-7, Berlin-Schöneberg
schedule: TBA
FEE: €350

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Now that you’ve built a strong foundation, it’s time to bring characters to life. Creating Character is where acting becomes transformation. You’ll learn how to step beyond yourself and create believable, fully realized human beings with their own history, relationships, voice, and physical life. Building on the skills developed in Core Technique, you’ll explore how objectives, obstacles, imagination, and emotional truth work together to create compelling performances.

Through scene work, voice and movement exercises, and imaginative exploration, you’ll discover how physical and vocal choices reveal character. You’ll experiment, take creative risks, and stretch your expressive range while learning to make bold choices that remain truthful and grounded.

Working with contemporary English-language plays, you’ll deepen your understanding of script analysis while exploring tone, style, comedy, and dramatic conflict. Small class sizes allow every student to receive individual coaching while learning from the work of the ensemble.

By the end of the course, you’ll bring a fully developed character to life in a performance-ready scene and leave with the confidence, technique, and imagination to continue into Scene Study Intensive.

Creating Character is designed as the second stage of the Young Actors Program. While students with significant previous training may be admitted by interview, most actors—even those with prior experience—benefit from beginning with Core Technique to establish a shared foundation and working process.

“Having felt so inspired and reconnected by the Core course, I went on to the Character course, where the scene and character study was even more intensive and focused, bringing out powerful performances from each of us. One of my favorite things about these courses is that they are kept to small groups at a time so that each of us received time and attention to work on developing our characters and thoroughly examining the plays our scenes were drawn from. ”
— Monique Amado, Actor and Screenwriter

Students will:

  • Deepen voice, speech, movement, and physical characterization.

  • Develop a personalized warm-up routine to prepare for rehearsal and performance.

  • Explore how objectives, obstacles, relationships, and imagination bring characters to life.

  • Strengthen physical and vocal choices through advanced characterization exercises.

  • Use spatial and sensory exploration to build the physical world of the play.

  • Apply professional script analysis to contemporary English-language scenes.

  • Receive individualized coaching and detailed feedback in a collaborative, supportive ensemble.

To enable all participants to work intensively during each class, enrollment is limited to a maximum of ten students. Students should expect to work at least two hours per week outside of class on readings and assigned scenes.

Instructors: Adam Ludwig