Matthew Arkin Studio Information

Matthew's teaching draws heavily on his study with Uta Hagen, and the techniques and exercises described in her book, A Challenge for the Actor -- as well as his forty-plus years experience in film, television and stage. The Hagen Exercises develop a flexible approach to specific issues and problems that change with each part played, each story told. Technique is then applied to scene study. With an emphasis on script analysis, students explore and isolate their own behavior, and apply the lessons learned to find the core of each character they play. "The highest goal of the dramatic arts is to heal the individual, the community, and world by sharing truth. My studio is dedicated to the study of craft in pursuit of this goal. The greatest gift an actor has to give is his or her self, and he or she can best heal and repair the world through self-knowledge and self-revelation. I employ a dialectic approach: The art of examining various points of view, through questions and dialogue. By practicing continual discovery, we explore, we unfold, we open." The Studio offers classes in Acting Technique, Scene Study, Text Analysis, Cold Reading, Audition Skills and individual audition coaching.