The Gately/Poole Acting Intentives are designed for promising young actors and professionals who prefer concentrated conservatory style training to conventional, long-term programs. This approach to training allows professional actors the opportunity to continue to pursue a career while honing and developing their skills.
The Gately/Poole Acting Conservatory is a unique conservatory-style program for training actors in the Meisner Technique. Traditionally Meisner Studio Training spans two years which doesn't always address the needs of today's young actors who are already in the process of pursuing and booking professional work.
Acting Intensive Curriculum: Students rigourously train in the canon of the technique 8-10 hours a day, 5-6 days per week with master teachers. Cirriculum includes acting, voice, speech, movement, on-camera acting, scene study, and guest artist workshops.
This trendsetting approach was developed by Master Teachers, Kathryn Gately and Richard Poole, who identified through their association with talent agents and managers the need for short term conservatory training. Over the past 30 years Gately and Poole have founded and developed a number of esteemed training programs for actors in both the United States and Europe.
This summer The Gately/Poole Acting Conservatory is offering its first module in Acting Teacher Certification. The conservatory's approach to passing on and preserving the teaching legacy of Sanford Meisner's pedagogy and method of training actors includes new and enhanced exercises to bring the Meisner method forward to the next generation of acting teachers and actors.
The Gately/Poole Meisner Program combines a comprehensive overview of the guiding principles and step-by-step progression of the exercises known as the "The Meisner Acting Technique" developed by Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. This advanced year of training for teachers created by Kathryn Gately and Richard Poole integrates new exercises and breakthrough innovations, both in technique and in more advanced pedagogy of scene study and characterization.
This
advanced program will cover the entire canon of Sanford
Meisner’s first and second year work, as well as the innovative techniques in advanced scene study and characterization developed by Kathryn Gately and Richard Poole over the last 30 years.
What makes Gately/Poole Acting Conservatory unique:
• Award winning and industry celebrated Alumni
• Extensive Alumni recognition and success in Film, Television, and Stage.
• Development of 6 National and International Acting Programs
• Head of 2 URTA/NAST premiere graduate and undergraduate acting programs
• One of most renown and comprehensive acting conservatories in America
James Gandolfini about Katherine Gately on Inside the Actors Studio.
Congratulations to the following Gatley/Poole alumni:
James Gandolfini, God of Carnage
Tony Award Nominee (Lead Actor)
Zach Roerig, The Vampire Diaries
7 Teen Choice Awards
People's Choice Award
Tim Kaine, Rock N' Roll
Joseph Jefferson Nominee (Lead Actor)
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Joe Minosa is now performing in Boleros for the Disenchanted, his second performance at the Goodman Theatre. ...........................................
Melissa Hawkins, a former BFA student is now the artistic director at Theatre Y.
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Richard Poole spent late spring 2010 in Vancouver, Canada coaching Logan Huffman for the ABC series V. Click Here to see Logan’s interview about his experiences working with Richard Poole.”
