This is for anyone who loves acting.
Whether you’re experienced or completely new:
The Braver Acting Method is the training I wish existed when I was starting out: a direct, practical approach to building real acting skill from the ground up.
Whether you’ve been doing this for years or are just beginning, you’ll be working inside the same method, alongside a group of supportive, curious actors.
If you've always been curious about acting but never tried it. Beginners are welcome — you haven't picked up any bad habits yet, and might take to it quickly!
If you'd like to get cast in bigger and better parts around the Valley.
If you love acting and performing and want to learn from someone who started where you were and has worked at a high level.
If you're serious about the craft and want training that actually goes deep — while also being a lot of fun.
If you're thinking about conservatory programs or professional work and want to walk in prepared.
If you just want to find out what acting actually is.
What You'll Actually Get
Most training either makes acting more confusing, or frames your teacher as the person to impress — the one who holds the keys to the art form, and your job is to continually earn their approval. Scene study classes take 17 skills and throw them together out of context — a scene floating in space, with no explanation of what you're actually supposed to be working on. The death of great acting is confusion. A lot of training runs on it.
What I'm teaching is the actual skillset — broken down, named, and made pickupable. Whether you want to do this professionally, or you just love it, or you've always been curious what it actually is. It's a genuinely fun thing to learn. I've devoted my life to it. It teaches you how to be present with another person, how to play, how to collaborate — skills that are useful literally everywhere.
Your instrument is you. You can't see it from the outside — you're only ever inside it. My job is to help you develop the muscle memory of what it feels like when it's clicking. When you're making the pages sing. So you can calibrate yourself, self-correct, and deepen your own work — on your own, without me, for as long as you want to keep doing this.
This is about finding your instincts and your excitement for this artform. And then learning to trust those instincts once you've found them.
This will be a supportive, fun, playful, and rigorous environment.
On Mixed-Age Classes
This workshop is open to anyone 14 and up, which means you may find yourself in a room with a 15-year-old and a 45-year-old. That's intentional.
I grew up doing plays with adults. Looking back, I think it genuinely helped me mature — as a person and as an actor. Younger students bring something adults often spend years trying to get back: instinct, presence, a lack of self-consciousness. Adults bring seriousness, life experience, and emotional depth that younger actors are still building. In a room together, they make each other better. That dynamic is one of the best things about this workshop.
On Safety and Appropriateness
Nothing will be age-inappropriate. No harassment of any kind will be tolerated — from students or otherwise. No sexual or suggestive scenes will be used in this workshop — there is tons of other material and no reason to include it in mixed age company.
One honest note: Carrie will probably curse. She has a lot of feelings about acting. It's genuinely the only edgy thing about this class, and we thought you should know.
For Parents of Teens
My kid is serious about acting.
If your kid has been doing this for years and you've watched them hit a ceiling — this is the training that addresses that.
Most acting training in the Valley is a wonderful foundation. It's where I started too. But what I learned working at a professional level — next to Tony Award winners, directed by the people who shaped American theater — is a different body of knowledge. Not because local teachers aren't good. Because some things only exist on the other side of actually doing it at that level.
What I'm bringing back is what I learned once I got there. The specific, nameable skills that make the difference between a talented young actor and one who actually gets cast. Presence, characterization, tone, real-world collaboration — taught by someone who has done this job, at the highest level, for twenty years.
If they're thinking about conservatory programs or professional work, this is the week that will actually prepare them. They'll walk in having already done this work, with a felt understanding of what the craft actually is — not just more stage time.
My kid just loves it.
That's a completely legitimate reason to be here. Most of the people in this room won't become professional actors — and that's completely fine.
The skills this workshop builds aren't narrow performance skills. Presence, honest listening, reading a room, trusting your instincts, genuine collaboration — these follow you everywhere. They make a person more compelling in a job interview, more real in a difficult conversation, more grounded in themselves when everything around them is pushing them to perform.
Acting is one of the most enjoyable ways to develop those qualities.
Ready to join?
If this sounds like something you want to do, secure your spot now — space is limited.
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