BADA STUDIO
For over 40 years, BADA has provided opportunities to engage with the finest professional theatre training in the UK, US and elsewhere in the world.
The BADA Studio is designed to offer such opportunities on an ongoing basis to our alumni family. The BADA Studio isn’t a physical location; it’s wherever members of the BADA community come together creatively or pedagogically to explore and refine their craft. Workshops, masterclasses and ongoing classes will take place in various locations in the USA as well as in London and are open to all BADA alumni. Leading the sessions will be members of BADA’s brilliant Faculty, friends from some of the top theatre training institutions in the US, UK and Europe, and members of the alumni community who are active in the theatre and performance industries.
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BADA Studio Offerings
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March 2025 | New York City
Peter Francis James
(Faculty – MIO)Shakespeare and the Actor’s Toolbox
With the text as the fundamental teacher, PFJ will guide you in employing the specifics of language, as the means to discovering action, subtext, circumstance, and relationships, allowing connection with the writing, at the deepest, most personal level; this, while referencing history, its continuity with contemporary life, and so, finding our common humanity, as revealed in these plays.
Melissa Maxwell
The Business of Acting
One of the most difficult but important parts of being a professional actor is navigating the business side of things. Melissa Maxwell will teach the group how to work smarter, not harder as professional artists. She will work with the students on type versus brand, how best to network, self-tapes, and how to set yourself up for a long and successful career.
Andrew Wade
(Faculty – MIO)Re-Speak the Speech: Tackle Your Old BADA Speeches
The Workshop will involve preparation voice work, structure of a Shakespeare speech and give opportunity to apply this to a Shakespeare speech first encountered at BADA. Please bring along a hard copy of the speech you’d like to work on.
Tom McClane
(Faculty – MIO, LTP)Sharpening Your Craft with Chekhov
Join us for an intensive acting masterclass exploring Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov.This session will dive deep into the play’s rich and layered text, complex character relationships, and Chekhov’s unique ability to see through the characters’ eyes. Through scene work and practical exercises, actors will develop a nuanced understanding of the play’s emotional depth, while also sharpening their actors’ instinct and imaginative ability to connect with their characters’ wants, problems and circumstances.The purpose of this class is to ask the question; What is a play? How does the play function on the level of ideas? How does the actor contribute as an artist to the ideas and problems contained within one? And what, if anything, does this contribute to the wider world?