ELLEN HAUN
Ellen is a writer, actor & creative person living in Los Angeles. Groundbreaking.
She co-hosts Wackadoodle Time, a chatty podcast about Bravo and other reality television. She’s incredibly proud of the short film “Ellen Needs Insurance,” a comedy about the hysterical topic of navigating health care in the United States. She’s also the co-author of the humor book “Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling and Other Feminist Fairy Tales," which you can buy wherever books are sold (just don't buy books from you-know-where.) Currently, she's working on a feature film about a Mom Cult.
She also teaches scene study acting classes, which you can learn more about and sign up for here.
CLASSES
I teach ongoing scene study acting classes at Kingsley Studios in Thai Town.
My classes are aimed at both working actors who are searching for a scene study class, and also at comedy performers who haven't had much "formal" acting training and want to build a technique they can fall back on. No matter your training background, my acting philosophy is the same: we start with text analysis and build out the scenes and characters using imagination and play.
Over the course of 4 weeks, we'll work on the same play together, which I like to do so that we're all speaking the same language. I do not require rehearsal outside of class, with the exception of memorizing your lines.
Next sessions:
TRACK A: Afternoons 3:00pm-6:00pm - September 8th-29th, hold date of October 6th
TRACK B: Evenings 7:00pm-10:00pm - September 8th-29th, hold date of October 6th
Track A is meant for artists without previous acting training (comedians, writers, directors, etc), and Track B is meant for artists with a background in acting (you're familiar with objectives, given circumstances, etc.) If you fit one Track but the schedule of the other Track is better for you, that will probably work out just fine; just shoot me an email. We'll only use the hold date if I have to cancel class for a work-related reason.
Cost: $250 for 4 weeks
Class size: 10 students max
Enroll by: emailing actingclasseswithellen@gmail.com
MORE DETAILS:
The vibe is: Professional. Warm. Light-hearted. Rigorous. Kind.
The vibe is not: Culty. “Method.” (By which I mean, no one will be trauma dumping as part of a "process." This isn't actually what Stanislavsky would call "method," but that's a conversation for another day.)
What play will we be working on? It'll depend on the makeup of the class, but contemporary American dramas with comedic elements. No pairs will be working on the same scene, but you might find yourself playing the same character as someone else, in a different scene Most recently, we worked on "Elemeno Pea" by Molly Smith Metzler. Playwrights whose work we'll be doing include: Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, Annie Baker, Will Arbery, Katori Hall, Molly Smith Metzler, Sarah DeLappe, Martyna Majok, etc.
Can you coach auditions and/or help me self tape? Yes! I charge $50 for an hour and we'll get your audition on tape.
Money is tight right now because the industry is hot garbage: Preach. Reach out to me and I am happy to work with you.
CONTACT
I am repped by: Molly Hurwitz at Thruline (literary), Mark Park and Valerie Chiovetti at Stewart Talent (commercial), John Schultz at Bedford Artists Managment (acting).