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Classes

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Audition Lab

This advanced workshop is perfect for trained and serious actors looking to make the most of every in-person and self-tape audition. An opportunity to study with veteran film and TV casting director, Todd Thaler. You’ll learn all of Todd’s tips and techniques on how to deliver your absolute best work. This class sharpens and improves an actor’s on-camera skills, starting with demystifying the process including how not to self-sabotage.

This workshop includes: real-time auditioning (using sides of your own choosing weekly); taking direction and making adjustments; capturing content on video, (which is immediately available to students). Come to every class with a prepared, short scene (approx. 3-page/2-minute) from TV or film scripts. You MUST bring two hard copies of your sides to class each week.

Fall

October 28 – November 18, 2025 | Tuesday 7 – 10pm ET

$325

Winter/Spring

February 24 – March 17, 2026 | Tuesday 7 – 10pm ET

$325

Faculty

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Todd Thaler is a prolific Film & Television Casting Director, teacher, (NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University, Brooklyn College, Atlantic Acting School), and private acting coach. Among many others, he served as Casting Director on Sidney Lumet’s Running On Empty, Luc Besson’s The Professional, Todd Field’s Little Children, Ed Harris’ directorial debut, Pollock, Barbra Streisand’s The Mirror Has Two Faces, James Foley’s Perfect Strangers, Stacy Cochran’s My New Gun and Boys, Irwin Winkler’s Night And The City, John McNaughton’s Mad Dog & Glory, Gavin O’Connor’s Tumbleweeds, James Mangold’s Heavy and Cop Land, Wayne Wang’s Because of Winn-Dixie and Maid in Manhattan, and all the films of John Turturro: Mac, Illuminata, Romance & Cigarettes and Fading Gigolo. Television projects include: TBS’ “Are We There Yet?,” Peter Berg’s “Wonderland,” and NBC’s “Ed” for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award.