Mondays from 6:30-8:30pm
The Business of Acting is a 6-week course intensive, designed to give students the tools necessary for a long, fulfilling career in the entertainment business. This course is an actionable, step-by-step program for beginner and seasoned actors.
Unlike other similar workshops, it does not sell you the promise of success, but the promise that if you use the tools taught, you will have the best possible chance of making a career out of your dream to be a professional working actor.
Please note: students do have graded assignments, assessments, and projects and will receive a final grade in this course. Grades demonstrate a student’s ability to apply their understanding and mastery of concepts taught in this course. Trilith Institute instructors have a wealth of knowledge as they come with expertise in the film and entertainment industry
*Those receiving a grade of 80 (B) or above in the course will receive a “Certificate of Completion.” Complete 3 of the Trilith Institute’s Professional Education Courses, and you will receive the “Trilith Institute Outstanding Achievement in Film Arts.” In addition, if you have completed 3 courses and our Mastering Self-Marketing workshop, you will be eligible to submit an original project for consideration for our Creative Excellence Fellowship Grant, with a potential award of up to $10,000.
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Eric is a New York-trained, award-winning filmmaker and actor with almost 20 years of professional experience. As a filmmaker, Eric has produced over a dozen projects in recent years. His short films have won awards and been presented at festivals across the country, including the Academy Award Qualifying LA Shorts, Chelsea Film Festival, Big Apple Film Festival, and many more. He was awarded a finishing grant for his short film, Chalk by FilmInk Magazine and is a member of FilmShop NYC, Performance Jam ATL, and The Collective at the Alliance Theatre.
Eric’s feature film EAT was a semi-finalist at the StoryPro Awards and Atlanta Film Festival screenplay contests. He has written and directed over 80 custom film scenes for actors and owns Hollywood South Self Tapes, an audition taping studio for actors in Atlanta, Georgia, where he has used his expertise as a coach for the last 3 years.
His more notable acting credits include TILL (MGM) opposite Danielle Deadwyler, Long Slow Exhale (Spectrum) opposite Josh Lucas, and The Jim Gaffigan Show (TV Land) opposite Jim Gaffigan, to name a few.
The Trilith Institute 365 Fund supports all aspects of the 501(c)(3) organization.
$250 pays for a single episode of the Trilith Institute Talks podcast.
$500 feeds cast and crew for one Creative Excellence Fellowship Grant film
$650 provides a one-week scholarship to the Script to Screen Summer Camp
$1000 covers a Dinner With… events where students talk with industry experts over dinner
No amount is too big or small.
