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I’ve been out of town working too much to commit to ongoings although I know of a couple I’d dearly love to get into. I’ve mainly had private coaching and taken a few weekend workshops.</p>
<p>But it never ends … Walking across the stage in your cap and gown should be properly viewed as more like walking the plank. It’s no longer your major. Now it’s your livelihood and most new graduates need to at least take some audition classes or get some coaching since most schools - even the top ones - do a pretty sorry job of teaching that. Besides, almost everyone is still going to have some holes in their game and ongoings are a must if you aren’t working. Even series regular types often take them like supportive pointed out. The problem a lot of new college grads have is that they either can’t afford them or wrongly think they don’t need them. There’s even a [“S****</a> People Say” video](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRXVGLDdJv4]"S****”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRXVGLDdJv4) for New LA Actors in which she says, “I don’t need to take classes. I went to Carnegie Mellon!” Yeah, right …
It’s a Zen thing. You’d be amazed at how many parallels there are between Zen practice and actor training.</p>