Best Acting Classes in Beverly Hills, CA

No. The training of the BHP is very down-to-earth, and it was the point of view of our founder, Milton Katselas, that actors should best spend their time in training doing what they will do professionally: Scenes! We do have some exercises at the BHP, but their emphasis is vastly reduced in comparison to our concentration on scene study. We have about 5 exercises, including a cold reading/audition exercise, and you might do all of these exercises once or twice in a year.

Totally up to you. We do not divide scene slots by the number of students in class. The highly motivated student will do many scenes, the less motivated will do fewer. An interesting observation is that those students with high scene production are generally those who are able to move forward in their career as well. Work ethic is work ethic. The BHP is designed to reward work ethic. If you took an average across the BHP, 2-3 scenes a month would be a nice clip, but it relies heavily on your intention, and there may well be times when you are working on a play or film and your scene production is down, balanced by other periods where you dive in more aggressively.

Your scenes will come at you from various directions. Certainly the teacher will be assigning work, sometimes to seek out a certain kind of character, sometimes a very specific scene and/or scene partner to work with. In addition, your classmates will approach you with scenes they would like you to do. And of course, you will have your own ideas as to scenes you would like to work on. All these factors come into play in determining what you work on.

Indefinite. We would not accept any applicants who are only interested in a fixed time period of less than six months, and our goal is that you will be finished looking for acting classes.

No. There are no cameras as part of the training at BHP. We do record all the critiques on digital audio, and upload those recordings to a secure website so that students can listen and/or download their critiques on an ongoing basis, or the critiques of other scenes in your specific class.