Ting Zhang in "Hesitation"

Creative Thinking. Moment-to-Moment Reality. Imaginative Application. Practical Experience.

ACME Acting Lab is committed to the idea that actors grow in their craft both through the creation of original work and through practical application. Therefore ACME's instructors encourage actors to tap into their own imaginations by creating original characters, stories, scenes, plays and films. Rather than embracing specific acting techniques, ACME is more interested in discovering what each individual actor needs and then exploring radical methods to allow them to succeed. Each actor will be encouraged and challenged according to his or her needs in the hope of discovering the uniqueness of his or her creative self and be able to use the craft of acting as a creative, emotional, physical and intellectual tool of self-expression.

The instructors of ACME Acting Lab are trained, experienced, and hard-working professionals who are committed to the idea that working with actors requires a selfless will to succeed as well as fail, to teach as well as learn, but most importantly, to freely liberate his or her notions of how to work with actors in order to allow each of them to individually to succeed. Since the focus is on the quality of work rather than on the volume of enrollment, a high professional standard in work ethics and discipline is demanded.

ACME Acting Lab draws upon the acting principles established by Constantin Stanislavsky while also incorporating theories and practices of such noted teachers as Eric Morris and Uta Hagen as well as the creative techniques of more progressive theatre artists such as Richard Foreman, The Wooster Group, Joseph Chaikin, and Keith Johnstone.