Ongoing Training for Professional Actors in New York City:

Private Coaching Sessions
Ongoing Open Class
8-Week-Workshop September 08

The Michael Chekhov Technique in New York City
with Ragnar Freidank

  

Ragnar Freidank is from Germany and has been with The Actors' Ensemble for the past 10 years. He was trained as a mime and holds an MFA in Acting from the Conservatory of Music and Theatre in Hamburg. He received a full scholarship from “Villigst”, Germany to study the Michael Chekhov Technique in New York City. His long-time teachers were Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan, who were both certified by Beatrice Straight, one of the few actors to receive certification by Michael Chekhov to teach his method.

He has worked as an actor in Germany in numerous productions including in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Berlin. He has performed in Budapest, London, Stockholm and in New York.

His theater directing credits include: Between Worlds (US Premiere, Chekhov Theatre Ensemble, Off-Off Broadway, New York City, 2005), For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (The Actors’ Ensemble, New York, 2004), Oscar und die Dame in Rosa (WerkBühne Berlin, Germany, 2004), Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blumen des Koran (WerkBühne Berlin, Germany, 2003), Waiting for Godot (The Actors’ Ensemble, New York, 2003 and Adelaide Fringe Festival, Australia 2004), I have Never Been Here (The Actors’ Ensemble, Off-Off Broadway, New York City, 2001) and Uncle Ethan Ripley (The Actors’ Ensemble, New York, 2001).

Recently he directed the film "Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn", starring Joanna Merlin, Executive Producer Bob Balaban.

In New York City he is facilitating TheOpenClass and is teaching in the Graduate Acting Programs of Columbia University and The New School. Past teaching includes Brooklyn College, Sarah Lawrence College, Marymount Manhattan College, Michael Howard Studio, Michael Chekhov Acting Studio, Actors Movement Studio, The Linklater Center, as well as workshops in Italy, Japan and the US.

As a master teacher for MICHA (Michael Chekhov Association) he continues to teach at International Conferences in Europe and the United States. He served as co-artistic director for "Master Classes in the Michael Chekhov Technique", MICHA's DVD series, published by Routledge in 2007.



Private Coaching Sessions
   By Appointment

 

The Michael Chekhov Technique
The Actor’s Presence
Monologues
Scene Work
On Camera

 

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Open Class, Fall 2008

   Ongoing

 

Provides a place to investigate questions we have in relationship to our work as actors, directors or makers of theater.

Gives the opportunity to work with material (text/ scenes/ camera) and clarify our individual processes.

Can serve as an ongoing training ground as well as a field of exploration into theatre and the sense of personal meaning.

MONDAYS 7-10PM

Cost: $200/ month

Class size limited to 9 actors.

 

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8-Week-Workshop, September 2008

   Michael Chekhov Acting Technique / Linklater Voice

 

Voice, Acting, & the Creative Imagination

September 24 - November 19, 2008

Wednesdays 7-10 PM

Susan Main, Designated Linklater Voice Teacher

Ragnar Freidank, Master Michael Chekhov Acting Teacher

In the first in-depth collaboration between two freeing approaches to voice and character, Susan Main and Ragnar Freidank come together to cultivate your creative imagination and explore the realms of voice, acting and character. Out of the traditions of Kristin Linklater's voice work and Michael Chekhov's approach to acting, the focus will be on freeing your natural voice and trusting your innate creative impulses....     Read More... [pdf]

 

For more Information & to Register contact Salome at: smkrell@gmail.com

 
 

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