Students at New York University are providing positive feedback about Acting for the Camera Workshop. Academy Award© nominated documentary filmmaker Joan Horvath teaches the popular course in the Open Arts curriculum at Tisch School of the Arts.

Check out what our students have to say about Joan Horvath and her class:

“…one of the most enriching classes I have taken at NYU. The use of a camera in this course reveals to you the inner life of your performance, helping you to accelerate your growth as an actor to an extent that otherwise would not have been possible.”

—Ryan Johnston, B.S. Stern School of Business

“Beyond world class instruction, Joan Horvath’s perspectives and guidance help provoke students into an exploration of self, human nature and the motivations behind human interaction.”

—Carmela Gallace, NYU-Steinhardt/ABT Pedagogy,
Former Professor-American Samoa Community College
Former Soloist-Riverdance and The Moiseyev Ballet

“…I learned how to bring authentic emotion to my screen acting. The scenes, the one-on-one work-shopping sessions, continually challenged me to expand my range. And at the end of it, I had great footage for a reel!”

—Amelia Saul, MFA Studio Art, Performance Artist and Filmmaker.

“…to be inspired, to have that nurturing environment, that moving moment and figure that helps you realize your potential — and experience the motivating forces to pursue it –invaluable! That is what I found in Acting for the Camera…”

—Sinsu Co, Actor: End of Our Lives (Filming), New York I Love You (2009)
Light Years (2008); TV Personality: MTV’s Paris Hilton’s My New BFF (2008)
Guest Appearances: Oxygen’s Tyra Show (2008)

“Without the ability to guide an actor’s performance to a place of emotional truth, the filmmaker will never understand how to bring the story to acceptance by audiences expecting increasingly more realistic portrayals of life on the screen. Acting for the Camera Workshop provides a unique and daring opportunity for the directing student to hone this most crucial part of his or her craft. The Workshop was a game-changer for me not only as a director, but as an actor, a writer, a producer, and most of all, as a storyteller.”

—Asher Goldstein BFA, TSOA Film/TV ’05
Winner 2006 First Run Film Festival, King Screenwriting Award, 2^nd Place Wasserman
Executive, Traction Media (Company credits: Half Nelson, Hard Candy, The Secret in their Eyes)

NYU students can take Acting for the Camera during the fall and spring. It’s open to everyone, including those not part of NYU, during the summer. Register today!