Willow Tree Entertainment: Film Company & Actors GYM

HISTORY OF OUR GROUP In the beginning there was Konstantin Stanislavski who focused on "life on the stage and the mystery of "creative inspiration". Pushkin, wrote that the goal of the artist was to supply truthful feelings under given circumstances. How does an actor act? : The actor's art, after all, is in speaking other people's words. "If the ability to receive the creative mood in its full measure is given to the genius by nature," Stanislavski wondered, "then perhaps or...dinary people may reach a like state after a great deal of hard work with themselves -- not in its full measure, but at least in part." How can the actor learn to inspire himself? What can he do to impel himself toward that necessary yet maddeningly elusive creative mood? These were the simple, awesome riddles Stanislavski dedicated his life to exploring. Where and how to "seek those roads into the secret sources of inspiration must serve as the fundamental life problem of every true actor." See more

2/24/2017 Elvira Hi, guys, my name is Elvira, I'm an actress. I was blessed to be a part of this Acting Studio Group Theater!!! I had such an incredible experience studying and growing there as an actress. I was truly impressed by William & Elena Burns, both very talented and high professional actors and life time members of the Actors Studio. And if You have a chance to talk to them and be honored to be in their class, you will get such a huge and precious experience in your...Continue reading

Quote from one of my Professors at Northwestern University What is the hardest thing for an actor to learn? Well, I think -possibly- It’s the fact that he has to act with his total self -and he has to discover that’s more than saying lines emotionally, or memorizing lines, or becoming a star. To act with your total self means to act with -this is a big word- your humanity, with your humanness. I think I’ve come to believe that’s the most important part of acting -the most di...fficult to teach, but that’s where it comes out. You can have a marvelous voice and you should as an actor- and a well trained body- and you should have, that’s exceedingly important and a sense of timing and rhythm, and everything that goes into a public performance. But those are the communicative arts- what lies behind that? Always behind that is the human being that the dramatist has created. In a sense I think the actor has to be a dramatist. That is, a creator, he has to create, he has to put flesh and blood on the character the playwright has created. The playwright can only give you the words and a few stage directions. Well, what is that? Behind that is a human being. Alvina Krause (AK) - Northwestern University See more

The ACTING STUDIO GROUP THEATER is a place for professional actors where they can continue their development and experiment with new forms of theater HISTORY OF OUR GROUP In the beginning there was Konstantin Stanislavski who focused on "life on the stage and the mystery of "creative inspiration". Pushkin, wrote that the goal of the artist was to supply truthful feelings under given circumstances. How does an actor act? : The actor's art, after all, is in speaking other peopl...e's words. "If the ability to receive the creative mood in its full measure is given to the genius by nature," Stanislavski wondered, "then perhaps ordinary people may reach a like state after a great deal of hard work with themselves -- not in its full measure, but at least in part." How can the actor learn to inspire himself? What can he do to impel himself toward that necessary yet maddeningly elusive creative mood? These were the simple, awesome riddles Stanislavski dedicated his life to exploring. Where and how to "seek those roads into the secret sources of inspiration must serve as the fundamental life problem of every true actor." --- The foundation of our teaching is based on Stanislavski’s research and discoveries of the inner soul of the ACTOR. That is what we teach and with the focus and dedication the Actor she/he will progress in leaps and bounds, becoming that which he/she had always dreamed of and perhaps touch upon the elusive ‘Greatness of the Artist. "The Studio is the first halting place for people who have fully grasped the idea that a man's whole life consists of his own creative work, that so far as he is concerned this creative work exists only in the theater, and that it is in the theater alone that his life finds its full expression. No one knows what will move his soul, and open the treasure house of his creative gifts. The creativeness of an actor must come from within." -- Konstantin Stanislavsky See more