NYU Tisch studio palcement

NJTheatreMOM
Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:40:11 +0000

I’d like to say something about ETW, even though my son is not a student at Tisch. (He attends a different conservatory-type program.)

As I understand it, ETW focuses on physical acting. My son just finished a semester of physical acting training at his school (it’s part of their sophomore year curriculum) and says it is one of the most wonderfully helpful and productive approaches to actor training he’s ever encountered. He is probably going to spend his semester abroad during junior year at a physical acting-oriented program.

I asked a knowledgeable person whether my son’s choosing a program that focuses on physical acting/commedia would not put him at a disadvantage compared to students in his program who go to London to study Shakespeare-oriented classical acting. She said no, the two programs simply represent two different approaches to classical training.

A lot of high school seniors applying to college don’t know anything about physical acting. My son certainly didn’t, but now he loves it and values it very highly. I imagine that this in some way parallels what Tisch students experience once they learn about what actually goes on at ETW. :)