Training sessions in Acting
Beginners & Advanced
With the acting coach Luke Lehner – more than 16 years of experience in theater and training
About the Trainer
Luke Lehner is an Acting Coach with over 16 years of theatrical experience and training. He received his BA in Theatre from the American University in Cairo, where he also assisted and taught classes. In the summers of 2002 and 2004 he took part in a solidarity project called Cairo to Camps, where he led theatre workshops for the Palestinian refugee children living in the Shatilla camp in Lebanon. In 2006, alongside Harvard Law Students in Boston, he facilitated, directed, and acted in a performance that shed light on issues of torture and violence on an international level. He completed his Masters of Fine Arts in 2012 from the American Repertory Theater Institute at Harvard University and Moscow Art Theatre School. He has been teaching acting workshops in Cairo since the summer of 2014 and has also been giving private coaching to working actors. His training extends from London, Moscow, Boston and Los Angeles.
Some of his projects as an acting coach include:
•A private workshop for professional actors; Mona Zaki, Amr Youssef, Dina Elsherbiny, Ahmed Elfishawy and Abbas Abu Elhassan.
•Private coaching to professional actress Donia Samir Ghanem for her Ramadan 2017 television series.
•Private coaching to Haifa Wehbe for the Egyptian television series Mariam in 2015.
•Private coaching to both Aly Sobhy (Winner of Best Actor award in Dubai Film Festival 2016) and Ahmed Magdy for Egyptian feature Aly The Goat and Ibrahim.
•Other professional actors like Ahmed Malek, Ibtihal El Serety, Mai Omar, and many more.
Spontaneity of Acting – Beginners
24 Hours of intensive training – starting 2 September
In this course participants will learn how to re-nurture their sense of play, to feel free as an actor. Through acting games and improvised scene exercises, participants will tap into their creative impulses. As inhibitions are dropped the performer within is set free, giving them a sense of self-confidence, trust in themselves and in others, and of being one with the whole ensemble. Each participant will partake in individual, partnered, and group exercises.
This acting course is about reigniting a youthful spirit within ourselves and our acting. What joy does an audience member have watching an actor playing their part from past memories and outdated calculations? The life of the theatre, television drama, and movies lives in the believability that what is being watched is happening.
Spontaneity for an actor is nothing more than connecting to the ‘happenings’ of human life, and this we must constantly nurture else our acting becomes cold and overly analytical.
Actor’s Presence Workshop – Advanced
48 Hours of intensive training – starting 3 September
Along the journey of discovery and expression, an actor may come to a point of feeling lost, their light has dimmed, or their focus is scattered about. In this course the actor regains a sense of being rooted to their center of being, knowing where to place their concentration, and how to be a part of the flow of dramatic moments.
The actor explores the significance and effect of space and atmospheres, how to stay focused from moment-to-moment, and how to connect to the wants and needs of character and self expression.
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