Practice-Based Actor Training Program
Five Senses Theatre Group
Practice-Based Actor Training Program
The Practice-Based Actor Training Program – offers focused, immersive training for actors committed to deepening their practice. Through rigorous exercises and process-driven work, the workshop challenges performers to move past habitual responses and cultivate truthful, emotionally grounded, and psychologically authentic performances for stage and screen.
Time & Location
Batch Starting – JANUARY 5, 2026
Timing – 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Days – Monday to Friday
Fees – 6500/-
Five Senses Theatre Group, D-5, Five Senses Theatre Studio, Next to Jankidevi Public School, Four Bungalows, Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400053, India
Workshop Content
Pedagogical Objective, Goals, and Vision
The Practice-Based Actor Training Program is conceived as an intensive, studio-oriented training initiative rooted in institutional theatre pedagogy and contemporary performance practice. The central objective of the program is to develop the actor through rigorous daily practice, emphasizing process over result and discipline over performance-led shortcuts. The training seeks to strengthen the actor’s fundamental tools—body, voice, mind, and emotional life—so that performance emerges organically from lived experience rather than imitation.
The program’s pedagogical goal is to train actors in text-based and experiential approaches to acting. Through sustained work in script analysis, decoding, improvisation, and rehearsal, participants learn to engage with dramatic text, character psychology, and given circumstances with clarity and depth. Realism-based improvisations and scene explorations cultivate moment-to-moment awareness, truthful action, and relational responsiveness, enabling actors to move away from artificial or mannered performance.
A key vision of the program is to bridge training and professional practice. Studio work extends into structured scene work, open showings, camera exercises, and play production, allowing actors to apply their training under technical and performative conditions. Exposure to camera acting tools and theatrical production processes prepares participants for the practical realities of stage and screen while maintaining a strong foundation in actor training principles.
Overall, the program envisions the actor as a thinking, sensing, and disciplined practitioner, capable of developing an individual process and adapting to varied acting methodologies. The weekly structure encourages continuity, self-observation, ensemble responsibility, and long-term artistic growth, aligning closely with the ethos of national-level theatre training institutions.