Acting Classes for Non-Actors

Have you always wanted to act?
Do you have an idea that acting classes will increase your confidence and creative expression?
Would you like to radiate presence and charisma in your professional life?

Acting class for Non-Actors teaches you solid acting skills and increases your ability to express yourself dynamically onstage and in everyday situations. You'll learn that acting is not about faking or pretending, rather it is the ability to respond genuinely in the moment. Our amazing acting program guides you through simple step-by-step techniques that allow you to experience your natural acting abilities. Our Acting for Non-Actors classes will help you discover you can act. And it is so much fun!

Summary of Acting Classes

You will learn valuable skills to:

• Be comfortable in front of others
• Develop a personal presence that compels attention
• Enhance credibility, connection and chemistry with others
• Listen and respond spontaneously
• Express your self dynamically
• Cold read a script as though speaking naturally
• “Audition” for the stage and for real life situations

Beginning Acting for Non-Actors Level 1
6-Week Course

Through simple acting exercises, learn how to read a script naturally so that your acting is genuine. Learn to make strong and comfortable connection with an acting partner and to respond authentically. We will guide you to relax into the moment and deliver your lines with genuine feeling. Our secret technique of color awareness will free you to express a wide range of emotions. You can do it! Acting class is so much fun!

Beginning Acting for Non-Actors Level 2
6-Week Course

Learn how to move spontaneously around the stage so your scene is alive with energy. Use props and objects to help stay in the moment. Experience how engaging fully with a scene partner takes your scene into an exhilarating "zone." By the end of this course, you will be playing a scene fully and sensing your natural ability to be an actor.

Intermediate Acting
A Series of Progressive 6-Week Courses

Intermediate acting classes develop your acting talent to a level where you can audition and get cast in plays and films. We offer a series of specialized intermediate courses including Scene Study, Getting into the Skin of a Character, Intentions & Improvisation, Auditioning, Monologues, Preparation for Houston Cooperative Auditions, Creating an Emotional "Moment Before," On Camera Acting and more!

Advanced Acting Performance Program
Two Consecutive 6-Week Classes

Rehearse scenes from a play or screenplay and perform in front of a live audience consisting of your guests. Your director will guide you through the entire rehearsal process as if you were cast in a professional production. If you have never performed in front of an audience, other than class scenes, you will be amazed at how fun and energizing it is. But, be careful. It can be habit-forming. Anyone who has completed the Beginning and Intermediate classes is qualified and welcome to attend.

Advanced Workshops

Sandra Zimmer guides intensive workshops and acting classes that are designed to open you to deeper levels of acting and expression. You experience dissolving barriers that prevent you from giving your real self in auditions, performances and in life.

(See Schedule of Classes.)

For more information, contact Sandra Zimmer at (281) 293-7070 or (866) 575-7070 or email:

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