Actors Launch

CAREER PREP WORKSHOPS FOR ACTORS
with
Madeline Jaye and Rachel Griesinger

AUDITION PREP & CAREER GUIDANCE

✔️Audition Practice / Packaging your audition

✔️Agents & Directors/ Answering the tough questions

✔️Trouble shooting/ Avoid common pitfalls

✔️Tools and resources/ Navigating the Business

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WHAT ACTORS LAUNCH STUDENTS HAVE TO SAY

David Segarra

“Actors Launch gave me the ability to see many of the small facets of my craft that needed to be tuned. A class for someone beginning their career or wanting to expand their instrument.”

Ita Korenzecher

“Actors Launch helped me re-tune and re-focus my audition technique. I have already felt and seen massive improvements in my auditions because of their notes. The class was exactly what I needed to help me move forward and excel in the audition room.”

Jamie Flanagan

“This class is amazing! It gave each individual time to work on our issues, addressing them with precision, honesty and incredibly helpful solutions. I would recommend taking Actors Launch to anyone who is pursuing a career as an actor and intends to be on their A game audition after audition.”

Rai Canitisano

“Studying with Madeline has been a great pleasure. I found myself learning something new in every class and developed a level of courage necessary for success in the industry.”

Nate Becker

“Working with Rachel felt like a collaboration. I struggle with being in my head during my monologues, but Rachel helped me finally get into my body! She also gave amazing strategies on how to stay calm and collected in the audition room.”

JULY 2023 WORKSHOP

2-Part* Audition Intensive
Take one part or both!
*Discount for bundle

Monday July 31st 3-6pm
and
Wednesday August 2nd 10am-1pm

Cost: $175 ea./ $300 both

Day 1
“The audition” everything about your initial audition from entering /exiting /fielding interview questions, to coaching your material

Day 2
Call backs, cold reads, branding/type, follow-ups

*Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email with payment instructions, location details and other pertinent information.

“Understanding how to audition well, how to deliver on demand, and how to produce a consistent, reliable performance will get you hired, and hired again. Successful actors know how to do this and you can too!”
Madeline Jaye

Madeline Jaye Currently, Faculty at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Inst. and NYU Tish @LSTFI, she has been on faculty at American Academy of Dramatic Arts, American Ballet Theater’s JKO school, Steps Studio, Third Street Music School and Ballet Hispanico, and guest teacher/substitute at AMDA, Broadway Dance Center, and LaGuardia HS of Performing Arts. Privately, she coaches clergy, trial attorneys and business executives, in Effective Communication, and performing artists for auditions/performance, and young actors for college and specialized high school admissions auditions. In addition to ActorsLaunch, Madeline is the creator of Jaye Actors Movement; designed to bridge the gap between dancing-singing-acting and to incite physical fluency and emotional-vocal connectedness in performers of all kinds.
Choreography/directing credits include: industrials: Mattel Toys, Bell South, Barbie, Hewlett-Packard, IBM ThinkPad, and theater: LSTFI Productions: On the Verge, Dancing at Lughnasa, ART, NYU Practicum, Off-Broadway: The Workshop Theatre, The Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble, and Nylon Fusion. She has performed as an actor-dancer-singer across USA, Europe, Japan and the Middle East. Shows include: West Side Story, Oklahoma!, A Chorus Line, the pre-Broadway workshop for Chicago, as well as industrials,TV, Indie film and 3 years as a Radio City Music Hall Rockette. She holds a BA, w/Honors from Butler University, and has continued training in theater arts in NYC.

“Often, under the influence of nerves, in an audition setting, we become stiff, one-dimensional actors. How can you feel free to play in that moment? Learn how to turn your nerves into energy and bring more inner presence and physical life to your work.”
Rachel Griesinger

Rachel Griesinger is a Brooklyn based dialect coach and actor. She is currently adjunct faculty at NYU Tisch Strasberg Studio. Dialect credits include, but are not limited to TV: The Blacklist. Theatre: Top Girls (St. Jeans Theatre), Dracula, various productions at Ars Nova, and private clients. Acting credits include, but are not limited to TV: Fashion Victim, Lincoln Rhyme. Theatre: New Ohio (multiple devised productions), Ensemble Studio Theatre, United Solo Fest, Anne Frank Center (tour), Golden Shards Productions, and other random things. Rachel spent her formative years growing up in São Paulo, Brazil. It was during this time she became fluent in Portuguese and found her love of studying language, and studied Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed and found her love of theatre. MFA: The New School for Drama.

Workshops by appointment
Private and Group Sessions Available