Our staff and resident artists are professional performers, actors, musicians, comedians, dancers, writers and directors. We have committed, for over 30 years, to a studio of boutique size where you receive individualized attention in classes, and performances are intimate and inspiring.
Our founders, staff and Resident Artists have varied backgrounds that include film & television acting, experimental theater, modern dance, broadway production, improvisation, and live comedy.Each team member has their own eye and experience that they bring to our performances and events, but are consistent in the language and skill set, and welcoming tone of the studio.
Our founders, staff and Resident Artists have varied backgrounds that include film & television acting, experimental theater, modern dance, broadway production, improvisation, and live comedy.Each team member has their own eye and experience that they bring to our performances and events, but are consistent in the language and skill set, and welcoming tone of the studio.
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Janine Ditullio, Partner at Kimball Studio. A six-time Emmy nominated television comedy writer, Janine is also an instructor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Julia has been teaching at NYU Tisch school of the arts for 10+ years. Her recent acting credits include Mindhunter (Netflix) and Outcast (Cinemax).
Downloadable handouts, worksheets, and/or sides for you to follow along with and practice at home. Once you purchase a workshop, you'll get a link where you can start watching your video lessons and following along with any included sides, handouts, or worksheets. Many of our live events correspond with our video workshops.
Film-making is about translating psychologies into behavior. As a director, I felt a pragmatic need to comprehend the tools, techniques and emotions on the other side of the lens. Recommended by an actress-friend, I stumbled into Ballistics, petrified and unequipped. However - punch-drunk and bewildered - it opened my eyes.
Here's our Top-5 Highlights for how to get the most out of the Weekly Classes at the studio. Does not apply to our performances, . Watch a handful of our actors bring their own personal take to the same roles in the same scene. This was part of "Co-Star Sides" scene. Yesterday, we hosted a virtual table-read of BELOW THE HORIZON by Ranju & Sajit Majumdar for Washington Square Films.
We are a performing arts space, and welcome you to book our space for your own performing arts events. All you need to do is ask! Lower 5th Avenue (between 13th and 14th Street) is smack in the West Village/Union Square Neighborhood. Joey Parnes used our space to read, workshop, and rehearse several broadway plays including 'Gary' with Nathan Lane and 'Hillary and Clinton' with Laurie Metcalf & John Lithgow.
Reviews (5)
Eric Freeman
Jun 04, 2021
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Emma Orelove
May 15, 2021
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Joining Kimball Studio was one of the best things I did for myself in all my years living in NYC. The teachers have such deep respect for actors and are incredibly supportive of as us humans in addition to the incredible technique work of acting on camera.The students are also the most supportive group of actors I've found at any studio and genuinely root for each other. Coming from a theatrical background, this studio has given me the confidence and taught me such invaluable tools to hold my own in front of a camera. Lastly, they're super accommodating when it comes to scheduling with a great
K. G.
Jan 14, 2020
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I have been taking classes at Kimball Studio for years. If you're an actor committed to growing or are just beginning and want to learn everything you need to know, I'd be doing a disservice to you by saying anything less than--you are so lucky to have found it. As a fellow new to the studio classmate said to me recently, "I'm so grateful to have found this place, I just wish I had found it sooner." Kimball Studio is for the serious actor committed to growing and learning some serious on-camera chops that will get you noticed in the room as a professional. Thanks to the
L. J.
Jan 14, 2020
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I decided to take some acting to enhance my writing. I was terrified that the real actors would lose patience with me and not want me there. Not the case at all. Dan is an incredible instructor and has a gift for knowing exactly how to gently give direction, knowing what each person needs to improve. The students are all different levels but everyone puts themselves in 100 percent because the atmosphere is very nurturing and safe. It's fun. It's scary. It's wonderful.
Grace B.
May 31, 2018
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I attended a class. The students weren't very friendly and seemed to have a clique. There wasn't much critique at all, the instructor would call a student up tell them something to do for 30 seconds and that was it until he called "next".
It's improv I guess? It didn't seem like a place j could learn or grow as an actor or artist, zero technique but I think if you need to get comfortable being in front of people then it would be helpful.
It's improv I guess? It didn't seem like a place j could learn or grow as an actor or artist, zero technique but I think if you need to get comfortable being in front of people then it would be helpful.
