WHAT

SHARI SHAW ACTING & PERFORMANCE STUDIO

  • Be a Better Actor

  • Find the Joy in your Artistry

  • Build Confidence & Creativity

  • Realize your Personal Power

  • Develop Deeper, Layered 3-Dimensional Characters

  • Make Smarter, more Interesting, more Specific Choices

  • Bring Performances to Life with Greater Truth and Passion

  • Get more Captivating, Inspired and Successful

  • Understand the Real World Realities of the Industry

  • Connect with Agents, Managers, Casting Directors and other Industry Professionals

Sure-Fire Methods to help you: 

Get Grounded

Get Prepped 

Get Confident  

Get Focused

Get Pumped

Get The Job

THE SHARI SHAW METHOD

        Comedy                                 Drama                                  Genres        

Auditions                Scene Work               Personal Performance

Combining principles and techniques of legendary acting masters Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Peggy Fuery, and John Lehne, plus years of experience as a working actor – as well as a successful career as a personal trainer - Shari has developed a dynamic, inspiring, high-energy, no-nonsense, transformational approach for training today’s actors and performers in TV, Film, Stage and Personal Performance.   

Her acclaimed, motivational, success-oriented Method includes:

  • Shari’s 7 Step Prep (for winning Auditions and Performances – For Drama & Comedy)

    • Seven specific, structured, easy-to-master steps to preparing for, and delivering, stand-out auditions and performances. Techniques to breaking down your script. Living the Life of the Character. Accessing deeper emotional drive. Developing clearer thoughts. Understanding relationships. Eliminating boundaries and inhibitions. Telling a more defined story. Having a clearer intention. Empowering confidence and owning the room. Optimal preparation and performance based in imagination, personalization and authenticity.

  • Effective Memory – 

    • The most powerful tool in the actor’s arsenal. Takes the words off the page and grounds them deep into your body and being. Gets you so soulfully connected to the material, your work blows people away. You’re no longer acting, you’re being.

  • Relaxation & Warm-Up Exercises – 

    • Opens, grounds, centers and focuses your mind and body to access deepest emotions. Breaks down barriers, blocks and obstacles to creativity and expression.

  • Developing the 3-Dimensional Life of the Character.  

    • Develops fuller, deeper, more layered and nuanced emotional, behavioral and environmental thoughts, actions and performances to your characters. Adds vulnerability, quirkiness, truth and your own personal uniqueness to your work.

  • The Critic Exercise

    • Eliminates inhibitions, personal judgments, head-trips and critical inner voices that sabotage auditions and performances. Frees you to take risks without self-doubt and insecurities. Gets you to trust your instincts and impulses.

  • Genre Analysis

    • Understand the different techniques, styles, pacing and practices needed to succeed in an entertainment genre. Finding where you fit and conquering any job that comes up.

Comedy Technique

While Shari’s method is applicable to all genres, she has a unique understanding of the art, science, pace and performance for all genres of comedy on TV and Film. Her tips and techniques will guarantee you deliver the best possible comedic performance the script will allow.

  • Fundamentals of technical comedy: Flips & Reversals, surprise & exaggeration, set-up & joke, the Three-Beats.

  • Finding your “truth” in comedy. Incorporating your personality, quirks, neuroses and ‘isms’ into the work. 

  • Understanding comedy structure, punctuation, inflection, timing and marking up your script..  

  • Raising the stakes. Understanding and utilizing your thoughts

  • Techniques for Multi-Cam, Single-Cam & Film 

  • Discovering the freedom and confidence to play and celebrate in comedy.

  • Different techniques for comedy and drama.