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Welcome
I’m excited to invite you to apply for the 2025 Actor's Toolbox Theatre and Screen Training Program; your chance to take your acting to the next level.
Over the years, I’ve worked hard to shape Toolbox, and indeed all my training and workshops, to fit the needs of the contemporary Indian actor, and I’ve made sure to take into account the fast-paced and unique lifestyle of emerging artists.
With input from working arts professionals, insights from young creatives like yourself, and my own experience (More than four decades of international experience in the arts, including three years of classical training and a decade of theater-making in India.), we’ve created a program that will equip you with the tools to build a solid career in this industry we all love.
With a faculty of 10, and a graduation production and film launching you to the industry, Actor’s Toolbox isn’t just another acting class – it’s a holistic training experience that will support you on your journey to becoming the unique actor that you are, giving you the tools to maintain your talent, craft and stamina.
We are looking forward to receiving your APPLICATION and I’m excited to see how Actor's Toolbox can service you to grow and
Glenn Hayden
COURSE DIRECTOR
Theatre and Screen
ACTING PROGRAM
Four Months
Four Days Per Week
An experienced Faculty
Graduation Theatre Production
Graduation Showreel Production
Industry Network
Overview
The Actor’s Toolbox brings together significant techniques of acting, voice and movement and their derivatives, giving students in depth knowledge and experience of contemporary global practices of the craft. You will work alongside 10 inspirational teaching artists and guest artists that have experiential knowledge relevant to the demands of the craft and the industry and who deliver professional training that is unique to the Toolbox curriculum.
As you progress through the course, we will equip you with a wide range of skills and techniques to enhance your craft for theatre, film, and television.
The Actor’s Toolbox curriculum offers intensive practice-based training that supports the development of self-determined artists. Toolbox has been designed for those that are ready to commit to the disciplines of our craft.
The four month intensive program culminates in a film/showreel production and and a public live theatre production season where we launch you to audiences, casting professionals and directors.
Your Curriculum.
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ACTING - CRAFTThe Acting unit exposes the student to techniques of acting derived from the training values of Stanislavski and his philosophical descendants. The source material for the progression of this module is based on the teachings of Robert Benedetti, Michael Chekhov, Meisner, Anne Bogart, Lisle Jones and Glenn Hayden’s 40 years of professional work and teaching. Students will actively engage with the fundamentals of the craft for effective communication of the professional actor while unlocking individual habitual physical, vocal and other patterns that obstruct expression, individualism and creativity. The unit is designed to compound the theoretical, technical and practical applications of acting, voice, movement and imagination within contemporary professional industry contexts and supports the actor in making imaginative connections to words, emotion, and the creative world of acting.
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SCREEN ACTINGThis unit works parallel with the core skills the students are learning in the Acting, Voice, Analytical, and Movement units, applying them to the particular freedoms, demands and challenges of living truthfully on camera. The Screen Acting unit highlights the idiosyncrasies of the camera and prepares actors to work on the sets of professional films and television economically and effectively, exploring the required tools experientially via scene study and monologues.
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VOICEThis unit teaches the student the fundamental skills required for the development of voice, and speech for a professional actor, instilling a practical understanding of the voice as an actor's tool for character, emotion, story, stamina and effect. The voice unit will see the students develop efficient vocal use, breath support, body/voice alignment, modulation, resonance and articulation. In addition, students will gain theoretical and practical skills in the imaginative use of language and vocal production, as well as vocal health, and basic vocal anatomy and physiology. Students will be given the required techniques to develop processes for vocal warm-ups and applied practice that support the unique demands of their individual voice.
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MOVEMENTThis unit’s focus is on increasing body awareness in relationship to acting, character, improvisation, freedom of movement, and the actor’s ‘centre’. The movement unit Increases the actor’s body strength, awareness and rigor and enhances their movement, free of restriction and obstructive habits, to support imaginative exploration and the creation of original and transformational interpretation. The students will attain a framework for alignment, coordination, balance, breath and expressive movement with a focus on supporting body and movement knowledge for the actor to build their capacity for physical and imaginative creation of character, story and emotion.
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TEXTA practical understanding of the universal expectations for the analysis of text and how to apply these skills to the floor work of the actor. Students will investigate text theme, structure, character development, character motivation and essential action, and character relationships. The unit has its core in Stanislavski's Method Of Physical Actions - Units and Objectives, Actions and the Super-Objective Action, the ‘Magic If’, Imagination, Subtext, Motivation, Concentration, Relaxation, Communion Adaptation, Tempo-Rhythm, The Physical Apparatus.
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IMPROVISATIONThis unit develops the actor’s sense of playfulness, their body and spatial awareness, authenticity, and being in the moment, and the ability to work without a script as an essential tool not only for rehearsal, but for performance on screen and stage, as well as auditioning. The improvisation unit is an essential for actors to stretch imagination, free the actor's mind, and develop creative and instinctual responses.
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CREATIONThis unit investigates technical, imaginative and self devising skills, combining movement, improv, text and voice. Students develop their dexterity to be detailed and imaginative in their work as actors and creators of performance.
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INTIMACYActor’s Toolbox was the first actor training program in India to incorporate Intimacy Training. This unit investigates the actor’s unique relationship with their body and explores this relationship, identifying personal boundaries and the techniques of application to character and story, rehearsing and performing intimacy and personal/professional approach to intimacy
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STAGE FIGHTINGThis unit introduces students to the areas of physical stage fighting and incorporates these skills in the context of scene work. The unit Increases the skills and fitness required for successful stage fighting in a live performance contexts
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INDUSTRY LUNCHYou will host a lunch for invited Industry Specialists where you can ask the questions you need to ask in a casual, safe and confidential environment. Building networks is an important step in your career and Toolbox's Industry Lunch is a perfecty kick start.
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PRODUCTION - THEATREThe final weeks of the program are dedicated to the rehearsal and season of a professionally resourced theatre play. Actor's Toolbox will commission a playwright to write a new play compliment ing the batch and will ensure each student has a substantial role, showing their talents in the best light possible. Season: 7 performances Venue: TBA
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PRODUCTION - FILMEach student will have the opportunity to film 2 x monologues and 2 x scenes as part of their graduation. During the course of the program, students will be required to identify texts they are interested in filming, guided by staff in their final decisions. Scene work will be with fellow batch members. A professional crew will shoot the showreels
Your Faculty
All of the Actor's Toolbox Faculty are experienced, trained artists who have solid and respected careers in the Performing Arts. Each and every Faculty Member is dedicated to the development of the craft and the industry and are passionate about sharing their knowledge and expertise.
Your Industry Lunch Guests
Adding value to your Professional Network
Industry Lunch
You will host prominent Directors and Casting Directors at a lunch where you can make connections with your industry and ask the questions you need to ask in a safe and confidential environment.
Graduation Production - Theatre
A commissioned play for the 2025 Actor's Toolbox Batch.
The Graduation theatre production will be a new full length professionally resourced play that ensures that all graduates have substantial roles that show them off to the industry, highlighting the uniqueness and strengths of each ensemble member.
The production will have a 7 performance season with 2 performances reserved for Industry and Invited Guests including Directors, Casting Directors and Peers.
Graduation Production - Film
All graduating students will work with fellow batch members to film scenes and monologues in professional environments as part of the program that can be utilised as their showreel.
Students will be guided throughout the program in their selection of texts that will show them in their best and most employable light.
Week 11 of the program will be dedicated to filming.
Student Testimonials
INFORMATION
START DATE: 4TH SEPT, 2025
END DATE: 21ST DEC, 2025
DURATION: 16 WEEKS
DAYS: THURSDAYS TO SUNDAYS
TIMES: 9.30AM - 4.30PM
*Days and times will alter accordingly during productions
LOCATION: TBA
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AGE: 18+
17 yr olds are permitted to apply with parental consent. Please contact us to discuss.
FEES
EARLY BIRD: ₹170,280
FULL: ₹179,242
All fees GST inclusive
Payment Instalment plans available
