July 10 - August 14, 2023

5-Week Online Summer Program of ON-DEMAND CLASSES + LIVE ONLINE CHECK-IN SESSIONS with Ted Pugh, Fern Sloan & Ragnar Freidank

  • Starting July 10, immerse yourself for 5 weeks in the practical study of Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique

  • Engage each week with 9 new hours of on-demand classes in a carefully curated progression

  • Follow the curriculum as it unfolds while working with the classes on your own schedule

  • Ask anything & receive clarification from Ted, Fern & Ragnar during check-in sessions

  • Receive an Imaginary Certificate from the Michael Chekhov School upon completion

  • Enjoy access to all your classes for one extra week after the course has ended

  • SAVE $370, compared to subscribing to all included courses individually

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5 WEEK COURSE - OUTLINE OF CLASSES

    1. Video Tutorial: Accessing your Audio / Video Library

    1. Welcome & Opening with Fern, Ted & Ragnar

    2. VIDEO RECORDING / Live Online Session #1

    1. Week 1 - Overview

    1. FUNDAMENTALS I / Session 1 - Waking up the Body / Centers

    2. FUNDAMENTALS I / Session 2 - Full Body / Inner Responses

    3. FUNDAMENTALS I / Session 3 - Body as one Unit of Energy / Tempo

    4. FUNDAMENTALS I / Session 4 - Quality / Sensation / Gesture

    5. FUNDAMENTALS I / Session 5 - Being Present / Inner Activity

    1. IMAGINATION RADIO / WELCOME

    2. IMAGINATION RADIO / 01 INNER OCEAN

    3. IMAGINATION RADIO / 02 IMAGINARY SPACE

    4. IMAGINATION RADIO / 03 DOING NOTHING

    5. IMAGINATION RADIO / 04 BODY AS LANDSCAPE

    6. IMAGINATION RADIO / 05 FOUND CHARACTERS

    7. IMAGINATION RADIO / 06 WORLD OF THINGS

    1. Additional Classes - week 1

About this course

  • 40+ hours of video
  • 13+ hours of audio
  • 4 live online check-in sessions

With

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.

Ragnar Freidank

Ragnar Freidank trained as an actor in his native Germany and since 2004 has been teaching acting in New York. He has been on the faculty of Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, Brooklyn College, Marymount Manhattan, Michael Howard Studios, The New School and teaches his own Scene-Class. In 2015 he co-founded the Michael Chekhov School in Hudson (NY) together with Fern Sloan & Ted Pugh. He works as a freelance director of theater, filmmaker, location sound-recordist, camera operator and editor. He directed the award-winning narrative film "Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn", starring Joanna Merlin, executive producer Bob Balaban and co-directed the acclaimed DVD series "Master Classes in the Michael Chekhov Technique", produced by the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA). He made the "D&D Roadshow Movie" for Improbable Theatre (UK) and most recently collaborated on Improbable's Show "Tao of Glass", with Phelim McDermott and composer Philip Glass.

Course Begin: July 10, 2023

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