• 6 hour course

  • 6+ video sessions

  • 6 month access

How to find the right feelings - that is what we are trying to find in our work

Our exercises are leading our hearts and our feelings - this part of our being which is so hidden from us. If you grasp our Method and work from this point of view, you will understand that there is no single exercise which does not lead directly to the feelings, and this is what we are aiming at.

So don't be satisfied by touching your feelings with your intellect. We must appeal to our body and expand it in every direction, and ask it to help us to awaken our feelings.

(Michael Chekhov on January 23, 1939 - recorded by Deidre Hurst DuPrey)

Course curriculum

    1. Introduction - with Fern Sloan

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Excerpt - Session with Fern Sloan

      FREE PREVIEW

    1. Session 1 - with Fern Sloan

    2. Session 2 - with Ted Pugh

    3. Session 3 - with Fern Sloan

    4. Session 4 - with Fern Sloan

    5. Session 5 - with Fern Sloan

    6. Session 6 - with Ted Pugh

    1. Reflection 1 with Fern - Feelings

    2. Reflection 2 with Fern - Joy

    3. Reflection 3 with Fern - Listening

    4. Reflection 4 with Fern - Choices

    5. Reflection 5 with Fern - Working Alone

    6. Reflection 6 with Ted - Images

    7. Reflection 7 with Ted - A Sense

    8. Reflection 8 with Ted - Focus

    9. Reflection 9 with Ted - Your Process

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    1. Imaginary Class - with Ragnar

    2. Conversation: Ted, Fern & Ragnar

    3. Audio Exercise - with Ragnar

    1. FREE INTRO COURSE

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. FUNDAMENTALS I - "The Ground You Stand On"

    3. FUNDAMENTALS II - "A Wise Body"

    4. PSYCHOLOGICAL GESTURE I

    5. PSYCHOLOGICAL GESTURE II

    6. IMAGINATION COURSE with FERN

About this course

  • $200.00
  • 6 hour course
  • 6+ video sessions
  • 6-month streaming


These Classes are for anyone interested in developing their own practical understanding of the Michael Chekhov  Acting Technique. They are taught by long-time practitioners of this work. If you are unfamiliar with our teachers, we invite you to view the free preview sessions for a sense of the style and pacing of the classes, prior to enrolling in the course.

with Fern Sloan

+ additional sessions by Ted Pugh

Fern Sloan

Master Teacher

Fern Sloan, an actress for over 50 years, is co-founder and co-artistic director of The Actors’ Ensemble and has performed and taught the Michael Chekhov technique in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia. Along with Ted Pugh and Ragnar Freidank, she is also co-founder of The Michael Chekhov School in Hudson, NY. Fern was certified by the Michael Chekhov Studio in New York City to teach the work of Michael Chekhov and was on its faculty for the last three years of its existence. She was co-director and on the faculty of the Speech and Drama Program of Sunbridge College. Prior to founding The Actors’ Ensemble, Ms. Sloan played leading roles in numerous regional theaters in the US and Off-Broadway.

Ted Pugh

Master Teacher

Ted Pugh is the co-artistic director of The Actors’ Ensemble of New York and has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Regional theaters around the United States. After having trained at the Michael Chekhov Studio in New York City, Mr. Pugh was certified as a teacher by Beatrice Straight and Deirdre du Prey in 1983, and was on the faculty at the Studio for the last seven years of its existence. Mr. Pugh has also taught workshops throughout the U.S., Europe, Russia and Australia. A founding member of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut under the direction of Jon Jory, he began his career at Arena Stage in Washington DC in 1962. Along with Ragnar Freidank and Fern Sloan, he is co-founder of The Michael Chekhov School in Hudson, NY.

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