CAREER ACCELERATOR
🏆 Castings, outreach, opportunities… complete career development support, online curriculum.
UPCOMING COURSES
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Pre-registration is open for new students, autumn 2022 intake:
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💡 THEME
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#️⃣ REFERENCE
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⏳ DURATION
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📆 2022
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⌚️ SCHEDULE
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🎓 TEACHERS
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☑️ STATUS
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🎟 PRICE
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🥇 MASC22C3
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27 hours (9 x 3h)
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26/09->19/12
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Monday 2pm - 5pm
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Closed
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3 x 207 €
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🥈 MASC22C2
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27 hours (9 x 3h)
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27/09->20/12
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Tuesday 2pm - 5pm
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Closed
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3 x 207 €
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🥉 MASC22C1a
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36 hours (9 x 4h)
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27/09->20/12
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Tuesday 6pm - 10pm
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Open
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3 x 234 €
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🥉 MASC22C1b
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36 hours (9 x 4h)
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28/09->21/12
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Wednesday 2pm - 6pm
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Open
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3 x 234 €
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MEISNER & SYSTEMIC COACHING (🇺🇸)
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🥉 MASC22C1c
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36 hours (9 x 4h)
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28/09->21/12
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Wednesday 7pm - 11pm
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Waiting list
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3 x 234 €
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If none of these slots work for you, you can reserve a place on the next courses by email here
🤝 Commitment for one term of classes, renewable for the higher levels.
⛱ The All Saints school holidays (weeks of 22 and 29 October) and the week of 14 November are break weeks.
🎁 Registering for the in-person course also gives you access to the matching groups of the community space and to self-run rehearsal slots rented by the school. More details below.
TESTIMONIALS
Gain legitimacy and visibility, without losing your way
Build the foundations of your long-term career support system
THIS PROGRAMME INCLUDES
✔️ 12 TEACHING SESSIONS
Which can be taken as part of the full cycle or one at a time, to get the essential keys to developing your career
✔️ 20 CONTACT FILES & PRACTICAL RESOURCES
Listing 3,000+ professionals to boost your network
✔️ 8 PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
To talk with the actor’s main collaborators: casting directors, talent agents, film/TV directors, voice-over and dubbing casting staff, etc.
✔️ PERSONALISED EXERCISES & ADVICE
To move forward “step by step”, at your own pace
✔️ EXCLUSIVE INDUSTRY NEWS UPDATES
So you don’t miss the latest opportunities
✔️ 1 MONTHLY DROP-IN SESSION
Held by our consultant on top of the classes, for individual support as you progress
✔️ 2 WEEKLY PEER SUPPORT GROUPS
For a stimulating work space where students help each other with their outreach
✔️ 1 REVIEW MEETING
To leave the cycle with work priorities for the short and the long term
Become truer and more sincere, in a healthy and effortless way
Build the foundations of your own work system in 12 weeks
🎯 OBJECTIVES
– Boost your career across the different film and audiovisual sectors.
– Gain legitimacy and visibility by designing convincing communication tools
and carrying out effective outreach.
– Grow your network and keep in touch with casting directors,
film/TV directors, voice-over and dubbing casting staff, video game publishers, producers…
– Spot as many job opportunities as possible and target your outreach according to your profile
and your artistic identity.
– Diversify your activity to make a better living from your craft.
– Set personal career goals and lay out a precise action plan to reach them.
– Channel your energy and your budget over the long term.
👤 WHO IT’S FOR
Beginner or experienced actors who want to gain legitimacy and visibility and boost their career.
Strongly recommended for actors working mainly in theatre who want to diversify their activity.
🔑 ACCELERATOR ACCESS
Career Accelerator
Our long-term support-
🍿 Themed courses, regularly updated
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🏆 The daily castings database, pre-filtered
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📑 The contact files
📜 DETAILED PROGRAMME
– Key figures of the job market in France.
– The variety of actors’ work in audiovisual, live performance and related sectors.
Resource given to students :
📎 List of the essential websites and platforms.
– What is specific to each sector: film, TV, advertising, corporate, dubbing, voice-over, video games, related sectors…
– The keys to working well with professionals : casting directors, talent agents, directors, producers, etc.
– Target your outreach in line with your artistic identity and what each profession expects.
– Define an effective, personalised communication strategy by channelling your energy.
– The essential associations and institutions; artists’ collectives.
– Overview of the essential national/international festivals and events: target them according to your specifics and make the most of your presence (before, during and after).
– Managing your energy and the waiting times: what to do when nothing is happening?
Resources given to students :
📎 The essential associations, collectives, unions & institutions.
📎 The main national/international festivals & professional events.
– Notions of life path, history of tastes and “storytelling”.
– Identify your strengths & specifics.
– Promote your skills and your artistic identity.
– Practise introducing yourself in general, then for specific projects.
⚙️Self-introduction exercises.
Resources given to students :
📎 Sample mini bios.
📎 Sample interviews.
– What audiovisual professionals expect from a CV.
– Prioritise the information and order it effectively.
– A range of CVs from artists with eclectic profiles (before & after coaching).
– Feedback on the CVs provided by participants.
– Access to exclusive CV templates we made ourselves; help getting started with them.
⚙️ Personalised feedback on your CV.
⚙️ Getting started with the tool given to students to rebuild their CV.
Resources given to students :
📎 Several actor CV templates to adapt.
– Be aware of your “archetypes”: what you give off when you are not acting.
– What makes a successful photo portfolio.
– What is specific to advertising photos.
– Choosing your main photo.
– Full-length photos and model measurements.
– Choosing a photographer and the keys to working well together.
⚙️ Personalised feedback on your CV.
⚙️ Getting started with the tool given to students to rebuild their CV.
Resources given to students :
📎 Several actor CV templates to adapt.
– Know what casting directors, directors and talent agents expect from a showreel.
– What makes a successful showreel; which types of scenes to prioritise according to your profile.
– What to do when you have no footage?
– Where and how to share your showreel?
– Watching & analysing examples of successful showreels.
⚙️ Personalised feedback on your showreel.
Resources given to students :
📎 List of recommended professionals (directors & editors).
📎 Links to the showreels analysed in class & useful websites.
📎 Text corpus (150 pages of monologues, two-person scenes…).
📎 List of rehearsal rooms.
👥 Meeting with one or more directors and editors we recommend, who make showreels.
– Sign up on the right platforms.
– Define a communication strategy suited to your profile.
– Channel your energy on social media by identifying the priority actions.
– How to reach out to casting directors.
– Keep them posted on your news, with the right content at the right frequency.
Resources given to students :
📎 Annotated, up-to-date contact files of 200+ casting directors; a tool / logbook to optimise your outreach.
👥 Meeting with a casting director.
Examples of casting directors our consultant has already invited:
David BERTRAND, Fabienne BICHET, Antoinette BOULAT, Nathalie CHERON, Dorothée CHESNOT, Laurent COURAUD, Contance DEMONTOY, Juliette DENIS, Isabelle DOLL, Stéphane FOENKINOS, Stéphane GAILLARD, Nora HABIB, Angélique LUISI, Françoise MENIDREY, Jeanne MILLET, Gérard MOULEVRIER, Annette TRUMEL, Tatiana VIALLE, Hélène ZADOUNAÏSKY…
– Relationships with directors (short film/feature/TV/web series/corporate…)
– Overview of the main French filmmakers.
– Focus on the directors shooting their next feature in 2020.
– Get known by targeted directors, with the right content on the right occasions.
Resources given to students :
📎 Annotated, up-to-date contact files of 800+ directors; a tool / logbook to target your outreach.
📎 Descriptive list of the series currently in production in France.
👥 Meeting with a film/TV director.
Examples of directors our consultant has already invited:
Chad CHENOUGA, Mathias GOKALP, Bernard JEANJEAN, Blandine LENOIR, Jean-Jacques ZILBERMANN…
– Identify the skills and requirements expected in each sector.
– Target the sectors according to your profile.
– Who to contact, when, and with which communication tools?
– What training to take, if any?
Resources given to students :
📎 annotated, up-to-date contact files of 300+ targeted professionals; a tool / logbook to optimise your outreach.
👥 Meeting with a dubbing/voice-over actor.
Examples of actors (dubbing directors / voice-over coaches / trainers) our consultant has already invited:
Michel ELIAS, Noëlla FINZI, Patrick KUBAN, Véronique PICCIOTTO, Marc SAEZ…
– The talent agent’s job today.
– When is the right time to look for an agent.
– Target the right agents to approach according to your needs and your artistic identity.
– Select a list of agents based on qualitative and quantitative criteria.
– How to get known by them and keep them posted on your news? With what content and at what pace?
– Prepare your meeting.
– The keys to working well with an agent over the long term.
Resources given to students :
📎 Annotated, up-to-date talent agent contact file of 200+ working professionals; a tool / logbook to optimise your outreach.
📎 Advertising agencies contact file.
👥 Meeting with a talent agent.
Examples of agents our consultant has already invited:
Laurence BAGOÉ, Jean-Luc DARIÉ, Jeff GAILLARD, Sophie LEMAITRE, Cédric POURCHER, Marie-Claude SCHWARTZ, Jeanne TANTOT…
– How to attend the premieres of films whose world matches your artistic identity.
– Identify the types of production companies that hire actors directly (apart from film/TV production companies).
– Prepare your outreach with the right tools and the right content.
Resources given to students :
📎 Files of production companies that hire actors directly.
📎 List of distributors that give access to premieres.
Personalised reviews take place in a one-to-one interview, to take stock of the work done over the 4 months and give each student work priorities for the short and the long term, at the end of this support programme.
Raphaël & Lydia
Eugenia & Zakari
Cyril & Sara
Octave
Meryl
DETAILS & LEVELS
The educational foundations of our Meisner programme
🔍 Taught and understood very differently around the world, the Meisner technique is heir to a long history of research and teaching in acting, whose sources are often little known.
📚 Here we retrace its origins, its developments and its legacy:
This last link is the general programme of this course.
Levels
The next courses shown below are, by default, LEVEL 1.
Re-enrolment for the next levels happens internally, at the end of each term.
The “classic” Meisner programme, traditionally two years long, is largely covered here by the first 3 terms: levels 1, 2 and 3.
The “second year”, levels 5, 6 and 7, covers the advanced work of applying the technique to shooting and directing conditions, already touched on in the first year.
It also introduces the basics of career coaching, production and writing, tied to the rest of the programme.
TEACHER
OCTAVE KARALIEVITCH
After studying science (mathematics and physics in preparatory classes, then philosophy of science and knowledge), Octave turned to psychology and cognitive science, and took an interest in research in 3 areas in particular: creativity, education and therapy.
Interested in the processes of personal development and self-liberation, he also trained in contemporary “brief therapy” and coaching tools such as NLP or Ericksonian Hypnosis, in both of which he is a certified Master Practitioner by the Society of NLP.
Going back to train as an actor, he discovered many Russian and American techniques (among others: Constantin STANISLAVSKI, Stella ADLER, Sanford MEISNER, Lee STRASBERG, Eric MORRIS…) and it was the Meisner technique that caught his attention most, beyond the unexpected sincerity it gives the actor, for its healthy, playful and simple side.
Noticing from the start its links with his earlier fields of study, he also realised how varied its approaches are around the world. He then created Paris Meisner Studio (now called Principonauts) to bring qualified teachers to Paris, so as to keep training the right way while exploring complementary aspects of this technique, its history and its evolution.
Seeking to sharpen his understanding of the Meisner technique, for himself and for the other students, he set up a novel research and development system of which the Meisner & systemic coaching programme is the outcome.
Alongside teaching and running the school, Octave keeps training in related fields to feed this research, having started, among others, a Gestalt therapist curriculum over 5 years at the EPG, a trainer’s qualification (certified) and a training in the Radical Honesty tools of Brad Blanton (rooted in Gestalt therapy and Ericksonian hypnosis, and aligned with the development of point-of-view work in the Meisner technique).
As well as traditional meditation techniques and Buddhist systems of mind-body connection, especially Vipassana.
In 2022, Octave produced and co-directed with Guillaume Caramelle the school’s first short film, “C’est pas le Pérou !”, a comedy written by Aurélien Laplace. The film is available on OCS, CanalPlay and Amazon Prime.
REGISTRATION FEES
Registration for this course is by term, on the website for level 1, then renewable first for students enrolled in the current term for the next levels, before opening to former students who want to pick the work back up.
Payment can be spread monthly, at €234 a month for 3 months, all included (see the INCLUDED section at the top of the page).
The packages listed under “Optional (after registration)” will be offered at a later stage.
