World-facing Bespoke Actors Training centered in Toronto.
We bridge craft, tradition and knowledge with practical know-hows for committed aspiring career actors; and provide space for the foremost practitioners in the field to investigate best practices.
09/24/2023
Our first date for Intimacy and Consent Workshop with Siobhan Richardson is now sold out! Secure your spot for our second date, Saturday, October 7th now. Space is limited!
This is an essential one-off introduction to intimacy for actors and directors. No one should be rehearsing or working without this knowledge!
Sign up link in bio (15% off for ACTRA/DGC members)
09/21/2023
Register now for Actor’s Instrument 1: Visceral Imagination, Physical Impulses and Rigorous Play, taught by Eugene Ma (Drama Desk-nominated, former faculty at Columbia University’s Graduate Acting Program, Harvard University, and currently at Toronto Metropolitan University).
This 7-week course is made to reignite your inner child within so that muscles or freshness, vulnerability and ferociousness can show up in your scenes to come.
For more details, go to www.performanceatelier.ca
09/16/2023
Keeping up with your training is important no matter where you are in your career! We still have a few spots left in our Actor’s Craft 1 that starts this Tuesday, September 19th, don’t miss out! Register link in bio.
Thank you Fala Chen for sharing your knowledge and journey with us!
09/13/2023
We see a lot of new faces around here and wanted to say hi 👋 Meet the team behind Performance Atelier, a new BIPOC-led acting studio in Toronto!
Performance Atelier Toronto is led by Eugene Ma, Atelier Director & (Aspirational) Buddha-In-Residence*.
Eugene is a Drama Desk-nominated, Toronto/Hong Kong/NYC-based, Canadian acting teacher and interdisciplinary theater maker, who directs, acts, and composes across continents.
As an acting teacher, Eugene had been an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at Columbia University's Graduate Acting Program, Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale School of Drama (now the David Geffen School), the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at Hong Kong Baptist University; as well as Lecturer at SUNY Purchase and Harvard University (TDM). He also regularly coaches working screen actors on projects at the Dome Studio in Beijing, and currently lectures and directs at the Toronto Metropolitan University’s BFA Acting program.
An acclaimed international theater director, Eugene most recently helmed the orchestral concert-theatre spectacle WILD,(Rose Theater, U.K.; City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong), he has also helmed the works of Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Thornton Wilder, Moliere, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill and Saviana Stănescu, and developed new works with Lisa Clair, Cherry Lou Sy, Mike Lew, Shane Sakhrani, EllaRose Chary and Sooyeon Lee among others.
With a zest for continual research, Eugene is also currently an MFA Candidate at Goddard College in their low-residency, praxis-forward Interdisciplinary Arts program, investigating liberatory contexts and practices for acting training as he reexamines common practices in and outside of institutional structures and reexamine curriculum and learning cultures fit for our discipline’s unique needs today. As how we show up morph, and as needs and mediums evolve.
09/06/2023
Dates have changed! 📆 Mark your calendars for our Intimacy and Consent Workshops on September 30, October 7, and October 21. We apologize for any inconvenience. We can't wait to see you there!
09/05/2023
We are so excited to announce our Round 1 Classes for this fall 🎉💛
Learn more and register today at www.performanceatelier.ca or head to our link in bio!
08/29/2023
Performance Atelier is officially launching its first full season with our Fall Classes and community programming to be announced on Friday! We’d love to celebrate with you, get to know you and for you to know us! All are welcome 🎉💛
📅 Saturday, September 9th
⏰ 3pm-late
📍 863 Broadview Ave, Toronto ON
RSVP link in bio or walk ins are also welcome!
08/26/2023
Thank you Mamadou Athie for speaking with us about your journey and answering all of our burning questions about your training and performance in 🔥
08/25/2023
BTS from our Directing Actors Intensive 🎬 We had 8 directors join director/writer and , each of them brought their own sense of style and vision for their recreation of a scene from the film, Revolutionary Road.
Our week long intensive focused specifically on how to direct actors. Not only did they each create unique scenes different from one another, but they all learned new ways to work with actors.
08/22/2023
At long last, we had a full house with our actors and directors from both tracks (Acting Intensive and Directing Actors Intensive) 💛💫
08/20/2023
Our first Acting Intensive is officially wrapped! It was such an honour to witness such bravery and growth from these actors over the course of the past 5 weeks 💛 We’ll be sharing more snippets and quotes from our summer intensive over the next few weeks!
📣 Fall classes will be announced soon 📣
