ACTING INTERNATIONAL - THE SCHOOL OF THEATRE AND CINEMA, based in Paris, New York and Hollywood, is a center of learning and artistic life and endeavors, of shared integrity & fertile encounters with confirmed professionals. A top class school, a family of like- minded souls. A talent pool that allows our most accomplished students to enter professions of stage & film better armed & more easily.

 

Our Tokyo workshops are organized with our staff teachers from Paris, New York and Hollywood. These workshops are open to people of all ages and backgrounds. For beginners it is an introduction to the excitement and demands of acting. For others it is a chance to discover the best of American & European methods of work and/or improve your English or French.

 

Talent is either there or not, it cannot be taught. Yet in order to act truthfully, it must be freed. In  this training based on your Creative self we forge with you the first tools of such freedom.

 

Recognizing that dramatic art takes as its material the whole of what you are  in interaction with the world’s nature and culture, we will open you to a new, daring surprising use of yourself -- sensing, thinking, imagining, recalling, feeling, acting/reacting – in space. It will set you on the way to relish real and creative acting.

 

A space of joy at work, where students actors define themselves & their talents through others & their own capabilities for making significant choices within  a uniquely balanced set of engaging methods, through which  each one can become his own craftsman. “Listen, my friend, by taking risks, “BECOME WHO YOU ARE!” and this, at work in the fields of playfulness, which is life and creativity, & the “animal-like effort” of the sportive and physical craft of theatre; & all toward joyous, continuous acting. 

 

At ACTING INTERNATIONAL, thanks to an ardent desire for excellence, consistent rigor, kindness & generosity to oneself and partners, the actor becomes “more of a player”; learning how to make better use of his future métier’s efficacious tools, engaging techniques & methods of work he becomes truly free to act. 

 

Today, without minimizing the high level of insertion in the profession of its alumni , ACTING INTERNATIONAL, a world-class, award-winning, dynamic, creative, bilingual school is most proud of its high-level teachers and coaches, all graduates of some of the world’s best schools – VAKHTANGOV INSTITUTE, M.G.I.K., GITIS  in Moscow, France’s great National Schools : Conservatoire National de Paris, TNS/National School, Rue Blanche, INSATT, LECOQ, MARCEL MARCEAU School of Mime,  the CHARLES DULLIN SCHOOL, ATELIER ROBERT CORDIER in Paris, as well as THE ACTORS STUDIO, HAROLD CLURMAN’s  & BOBBY LEWIS’S MASTER CLASSES, The AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ARTS, in NEW YORK, Etc.

 

The press about us…

“Of all those who teach in Paris, Cordier is the only award-winning film director!” PREMIERE-“One of the very few outstandingi schools”, -THEATER MAGAZINE – “Top Class Work,"- BACKSTAGE, N.Y. “Best School ‘New Look 2003 & 2004” –CASTING MAGAZINE – “The SCHOOL!!” CANAL +/TV “ALL kudos to ACTING INTERNATIONAL! a true nest of future stars & good actors." DIRECT 8/ TV “MAGNIGFIQUE ! »–PARIS PREMIERE/TV read more

 

Professionnals say… 

« An extraordinary  sense of the reality  & specificity of what happens on stage and of what the actor does. I went to his theaters, I knew his directing well and… then he worked for us on Broadway. For me, Cordier, is a phenomenon.”

-- Lee STRASBERG : ACTORS STUDIO, New York

 

“Cordier worked  closely with James Baldwin who worked with me with Tennessee , Paul Newman & Geraldine Page on "Sweet Bird of Youth". Both  Jimmy & Bobby are aces, real aces.”

--Elia KAZAN

 

"I liked Bobby with whom I worked during the ACTORS STUDIO SEASON ON Broadway. He is relentless, tireless and... oh! what a combination of talents. I invited him to join  the Directors Unit at the Studio and Lee was delighted that he accepted. Even though they rarely agreed on anything, except their mutual respect for each other... so was Buzz (Meredith) happy, who adored Roberto."

-- Cheryl CRAWFORD, co-founder, with Harold CLURMAN & Lee STRASBERG of the GROUP THEATER & of THE ACTORS STUDIO

 

“Roberto knows more about music & the actor’s complex, yet simple workings, than even Lee Strasberg. And , maybe more to the point, my friend, great teacher and Oscar-winning star, Charles LAUGHTON, invested hard money in Roberto's second professionnal theatre where he directed a briliant "Glass Ménagerie" & Luther ADLER(Stella's brother ) in Miller's "A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE.”

--Burgess MEREDITH

 

“Robert, I hope we can work together soon…” 

-- Robert De Niro in Biography

 

“A magic Man!! Listen to him, Lee ,»  said Luther ADLER , during the ACTORS STUDIO  production of "Blues For Mister Charlie" of James Baldwin, on Braodway. "I do," answered Lee (Strasberg). -- During a conference on "Blues..." at the Russian Tea Room.

 

  "I took part , during two consecutive summers in Acting International's short-term courses. I loved their  work & even learned, there, something I didn't know about Shakespeare & Hamlet."

-- Peter Mc Allister, Acting Lecturer on Faculty at famed   Central School of Speech and Drama, London.

 

"Dear Eric,

    It was always a

    pleasure working with

    you-- thanks for  your

    patience, kindness, warmth

   and help for a novice.

       _______

    Love.

      Steven BERKOFF    (in  The Theatre of Steven Berkoff) 

   NB: Eric is Eric BARTONIO ,one of our main teacher in Cinema, member of American Screen Directors Guild (see: Faculty)