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80 Winchester Street
Toronto, ON Canada M4X 1B3
Tel: 647 769-2909
Welcome to Coates & Company
A Toronto acting school that offers affordable and practical acting classes for the absolute beginner, the aspiring community theatre actor, as well as a conservatory style training program for professionals and non-professional actors in theater, television and film.
At Coates and Company we have advanced adult acting and auditioning classes for children and teens where they will learn how to tell their own stories. Intermediate and advanced adult acting classes for apprentices and professionals already in the industry.
You can only be a great actor when you know what’s going on in the world and in yourself on the deepest levels. In our acting classes the quest for this awareness is fundamental to the work.
Coates & Company is a place for you to study with seasoned, award winning teachers. Our acting classes will develop your imagination while removing blocks that will allow you to express your unique talent.
Untapped and untrained, talent is tragically wasted. Focused and trained talent yields thrilling rewards few ever experience.
“The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.”
– stella adler
“Acting is not being emotional but being able to express emotion.”
– kate reid
“Acting is not just showing up, hitting your marks and saying the lines. It takes preparation and technique to act naturally.”
– Sanford Meisner
“Without wonder and insight, acting is just a business. With it, it becomes creation.”
– Bette Davis
“Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”
– meryl streep
“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.”
– Paul Newman
What you will learn
- How to act honestly and believably through a rigorous curriculum in scene study, building a character, acting, improvisation and related studies
- How to expand your basic technique to transcend your personal limits of working. Learn to master a naturalistic performance for stage, film or television.
- A step-by-step approach to the technique and discipline required of the actor in all media, including film, episodic TV and stage.
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