THOMAS POLANSKI

SAG-AFTRA

COMMERCIALS

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TRAINING

Shelton Studios

The Shelton Studios is nationally recognized as one of the finest Method Acting schools in the country. Students have won Academy awards, Emmy awards, Tony awards, Obie awards, and countless local awards.

Teachers included Wendell K. Phillips and Jean Shelton who are closely associated with Stella Adler, Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Marlon Brando, and the creation of Method Acting.

Completed a four year intensive program covering the following studies and exercises: scene study, fencing, voice, song, dance, dialects, sense memory, improvisation, relaxation, concentration, the “Magic If”, substitution, animal characterization, personalization, private moment work, 4th wall work, organic truth justification, affective memory and sense memory exercises, psychological gesture exercises, character breakdown techniques, and more. Performed classic and modern plays written by the worlds leading playwrights as part of the curriculum.

CEC Studio

CEC Studio is where its founder, Charles E. Conrad, would emerge as one of the film industry’s most distinguished acting teachers. Robert Duvall, Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon and Joanne Woodward were among the students who studied with Mr. Conrad.

Conrad adapted the Meisner repetition exercise to elevate the connection between acting partners. The Conrad technique prepares actors to work in a highly intuitive state with a relaxed instrument and a high level of energy.

Completed a two year Master program taught by Mr. Conrad. The classroom exercise is always carried out with two cameras, one focused on each actor, A table and two chairs are the only props. The actors perform without rehearsal. His teachings are primarily for use in film and the intimacy of the naked truth that is only revealed through the eye of the camera.

SKILLS

Extremely Athletic; Improvisation; Various Dialects