Ruskin School of Acting

10/26/2025

A great listen from a great artist 🙏❤️

The Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins talks to “The Interview” host David Marchese about his storied career, including how he created iconic charac...

10/23/2025

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10/23/2025

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10/23/2025

Happy to be included in the L.A Times

“52 best places to see theater in Southern California”

By Charles McNulty

Located in the former Museum of Flying building at the Santa Monica Airport, Ruskin Group Theatre will soon inaugurate its new performing arts center, transforming the space into a state-of-the-art cultural hub. The expanded campus includes two new performance stages, the Kaplan Family Stage and the Audre Slater Foundation Stage, as well as newly completed rehearsal and self-tape studios already in use by actors citywide. Founded by Artistic Director John Ruskin and producing artistic director Michael Myers, the Ruskin has established a vital home for intimate, actor-driven theater, with past performers including Dylan McDermott, Marcia Cross, Ed Asner, Rob Morrow and Ray Abruzzo, alongside its long-running L.A. Café Plays series and the Ruskin School of Acting that has offered master classes from Anthony Hopkins, David Mamet and Ed O’Neill, among others.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/list/southern-california-theater-best-places-see-plays-musicals =ruskin-group-theatre-arts-center

10/22/2025

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10/22/2025

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10/05/2025

09/23/2025

Spencer Garrett speaking about the Ruskin School of Acting and teaching there 🙏❤️

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09/21/2025

It’s Coming !
Beautiful construction
The New Ruskin Group Theatre Arts Center coming soon!
Fall 2025 🎭💫

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09/10/2025

John Ruskin & Sanford Meisner 1983

When I was a student at The Neighborhood Playhouse I was grateful that Sandy had invented something to introduce me to the scariest parts of myself. I understood that acting class was about revealing, but I did not know how to access all parts of myself. The Repetition Exercise was the most profound awakening I had ever experienced. Repetition begins by placing your focus completely on another individual and, in turn, the other person places their focus entirely on you. This is the beginning of making contact. You look at your partner and notice what you pick up from their behavior, “You’re listening to me”. They in turn respond with what is the truth for them or something they pick up from your behavior. As the exercise grows with time, there is no hiding from your partner or partners. This translates into the work people put up with their scenes. The more you are able to reveal yourself, the deeper you are able to be as an actor. As George Bernard Shaw stated, “Acting is self-revelation brought to the optic of the theatre.” There are these moments in repetition where I see generations of fear lifted from people’s beings. The simple act of being seen in our most intimate places rocks people’s worlds open. I witness it daily in my classes.
I like to think of theatre as a place where people grow and learn about themselves. Actors that have moved me have an emotional honesty that pulls at the deeper threads of my being. When I leave the theatre feeling more alive, more full then when I walked in, I know the world can change through art. As the great paper writer William Saroyan said, “As long as there is art, war can kill nothing.”
The Ruskin School of Acting is particularly mindful of fostering a safe and nurturing environment in which actors can explore themselves deeply. We know that one’s ability to reveal directly relates to the amount of safety they feel. All the exercises that we do in our program help the actor to experience new parts of themselves. This ownership is key to gaining confidence as an artist. If you have been able to experience your deepest pains, sorrows, joys, fears, and then reveal them to another you are then free to utilize them in your work as an artist. This is the goal of all of artists; to help their audience experience the human condition. To do this, actors must be willing to experience themselves and their feelings in ways other people are not willing. And by doing so, they give their audience permission to do the same.
– John Ruskin

09/01/2025

Brilliant acting….🙏❤️