Miriam Laurence

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When a director asks for a specific result, how do you translate that direction into immediate action, while relaxing and following your intuition?

All fine actors know that training involves a long process that ends up with a personalized way of working derived from a variety of techniques. Good acting has always evolved from understanding of the many aspects of the actor’s instrument.

Miriam Laurence’s Integrated Acting System enables actors to discover an individualized technique. Classes are supportive and ongoing, with special attention paid to the process of constructive feedback.

Using the theory that no single approach works for all actors, Miriam Laurence’s Integrated Acting System draws from the training techniques and philosophies of the interpreters of Stanislavsky (Boleslavsky, Adler, Strasberg, Meisner, Clurman, Hagen and Shurtleff).

Linklater voice techniques, body alignment and physical releasing are part of this process. The more analytical aspects of the craft are also covered. This process gradually leads to an actor’s continuous advancement in scene study.

The actor’s instrument is dealt with in all of its contributing components: vocal, physical, sensorial, intellectual and emotional.

Miriam Laurence’s Integrated Acting System helps actors of all levels to integrate these components into an intuitive, decisive, personal technique while developing their own individual acting style.

Miriam Laurence’s Integrated Acting System leads to increased technique, skill, and believability.


To contact Miriam Laurence for more information or
to register for classes, call 416-221-9933.