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Acting Coaching & Classes

Our acting classes are designed to help you discover the reaches of your imagination to challenge actors & non-actors alike. Taught by award-winning filmmakers and seasoned acting teachers we will help you rediscover that childlike wonder. 

 

We encourage anyone who wishes to learn acting for any reason to join us. 

Our Services

1

Group acting courses

We currently offer Acting 101 course for beginners who wish to build a foundation.

 

Screen Poetry course. An advanced course that is specific to people who wish to learn about acting on camera.

2

Audition coaching

You will learn how to sell yourself to the casting director!

We will go over the role by finding the character, working on accents, and how to build a repour in the audition room. 

3

Personal acting coaching

Our acting coaches have helped actors in many areas from dialect and accent coaching to on-set assistance and scene study. 

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Filming audtions
Acting classes

Our Teachers

Our teachers are dedicated to diverse learning styles and making sure you get the actor's toolbox you need to feel confident on the stage, behind the camera, or just at your job. We believe everyone has half the tools they need already so we teach you how to use them and provide new tools to get you where you need to go as a "dealer in emotion." 

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Kenneth Forrester 

Screen Acting & Coaching

Kenneth Forrester is a 14 time award winning film writer, director, editor, actor, producer. He has been featured in several Atlanta based articles including Voyage Atlanta, Shoutout Atlanta, and Canvas Rebel. He started acting and making indie films in 2005. Founded The Great Wall Productions LLC (Mobocracy) with Barna Lumpkin Jr. and became an award winning filmmaker by 2010. His training at Callanwolde under Marty Barrett led him to unique visions as an artist. He took this foundation and began his grassroots journey as a filmmaker. Hustling the Atlanta film scene working pro and indie gigs for almost 20 years has taught him a lot about content creation and high quality story telling. In 2010 he, and Barna filmed "The Immortal Swordsman", which won them a first place award at the GPC film fest. He went on to produce his own feature length film, "Love My Country" that he also dircted and stared in. It premiered at the Plaza Theater in 2015 and was picked up by the local GA based streaming service, Peachflix. Since then he has produced, wrote, acted in or directed over 18 short films including Rock Island Woman.

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Marty Barrett

Theater, Screen Acting & Coaching

Marty is an actor, pastor and theater director whom has worked in the theater scene in ATL for over 30 years. He pioneered and developed an acting method to create vibrant stage performances based on applied Bibical principals. Marty has directed, written, or produced more than 100 plays with this blueprint including, Spreading the News, A Cuban Play, Macbeath, Cotton Patch Gospel,  You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He has enhanced the lives of thousands of children and youth with his careful and loving instruction in the dramatic arts as a teaching artist with Young Audiences, the Woodruff Arts Center, and Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in addition to his work in the church. He also hosted Risen from the Dead Poets Society, a monthly gathering of sharing from writers, actors, and musicians at Chamblee Tucker Christian Fellowship.

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Barna Lumpkin JR. 

Screen Acting & Coaching

Barna is an award winning writer, director, actor and martial artist . He attended Georgia State University between 2014-2017 emerging with a Bachelor of Arts with a Major in TV/Video Production and a Minor in Theatre. Not long after stage managing for productions of “The Mikado” by Gilbert and Sullivan and “Broken Glass” by Arthur Miller for the GPC Theatre’s Art Guild – 2008, he wanted to refocus his eye back to film. He began writing again and in 2010. He became a founding member of The Great Wall Productions 
(now Mobocracy)  and began a fruitful indie film career. He wrote directed and acted in “The Immortal Swordsman” and the rest is history. He wrote, produced, or directed around 13 shorts at Mobocracy  LLC by 2023. He CO directed Rock Island Woman which soaked up 13 awards during the 2022 film festival season. 

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Ryan Fay

Acting 101  & Coaching

Ryan Fay is an actor, director, and physical theater artist from Charlotte, North Carolina. He has helped develop new work at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and has been a movement coach forprofessional productions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Go Dog Go at Children’s Theatre of Charlotte. His one man show Scoutingpremiered at Marfa Fringe in 2019 and he was a 2020 Artist in Residence with the Charles Adam's Studio Project. Ryan is a founding member of The Nouveau Sud Project, a community-centered aerial circus company based in Charlotte. He was a part-time instructor at Texas
Tech and has taught masterclasses at Angelo State and Oklahoma City
University. Ryan Fay received a BA in Theater and BS in Psychology from UNC Charlotte and he holds an MFA in Performance in Pedagogy from
Texas Tech. Ryan is an alumni of the National Theatre Institute and Dell'Arte International.

Testimonies 

Jeff Huth

Jeff Huth

Kenneth coached me through the audition that landed me my first role on tv as Nathan Hale in AMC’s “Turn”, along with other auditions that led to network television and feature film callbacks/bookings. He’s a passionate and talented filmmaker, he’s also one of the funniest people I know. I’m fortunate to have called him a friend for many years.
Mitch Lemos

Mitch Lemos

I've been acting since I was a child and have taken many classes at the college level as well as independently in NY, Miami, and in Atlanta over the course of many years. When I started working with Kenneth it was like a new awakening. A breath of fresh air. It wasn't the same old same old boring repetition exercises or pretending to be an animal or standing in a circle and throw different colored balls at each other. The exercises we did both in a group setting and individually helped me break through barriers built up over the years. There was one exercise that I'll call "time travel” which delved into the depths of my psyche and prepared me for my next project. 
Andrea Fernandez

Andrea Fernandez

Working on Rock Island Woman was such an extraordinary experience. So much of the magic came from our director, Kenneth.  He created a safe environment for me to feel vulnerable and ensured that the story's heart was felt. It was amazing to have time not only to rehearse the scene but to rehearse the character, the soul, and the body of the character in me. He directs with so much authenticity and passion, giving his actors all the tools possible to live the character.

 

He even made me and Bell a playlist <3 I cannot wait to work with Kenneth again.

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with Kenneth Forrester and Marty Barrett

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