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What Students Have to Say
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EVAN BRODSKY
Columbia University, MFA Playwriting
NYU Tisch, BFA Acting
RADA Shakespeare in PerformanceLea’s care and precision in her relationship with her students goes beyond anything anticipated, because once you know Lea, she will become a part of your life and she will change you. I am constantly thinking about the techniques and lessons that I have learned from her. I will forever be grateful for all that she has taught me and can’t wait to find out all that I still have to learn from her.
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LUX MCCASTLE
Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, BFA Acting
Lea absolutely changed my life. She is the most intuitive and caring person you will ever meet. She teaches theater in its most pure form. She completely changed how I view acting forever. Yes, she made me a better actor ,but she also gave me a home and a place I can always come back to. I will continue to work with her for the rest of my life. Lea treats every student as an individual and takes the time to give you exactly what you need. Not only is Lea a powerhouse acting coach, but she is also a mother and a friend. I cannot adequately express how she’s changed my life and acting for the better. Come work with Lea. It’s the best decision you’ll ever make.
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ISABEL GRAY
NYU Steinhardt School of Music,
BM Vocal Performance, Music TheatreLea changed my life. Not only does she have an exceptional understanding of the craft and technique of acting, she also possesses an innate understanding of the human spirit that enriches her students’ experiences in both her class and their outside lives. Lea is impassioned, empathetic, and directly engages with each individual on a personal and professional level unlike any other teacher I have ever had the fortune to work under.
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AMANDA LONG
University of Southern California, BA Acting
Lea’s the best teacher I’ve ever had. She taught me how to notice my own habits without judgement. She stimulates imaginations and is profoundly in tune with her own artistic process, rituals, and vision.
Lea's intuition is powerfully accurate. She speaks truthfully, lovingly, ferociously. She has acquired more legitimate tools, techniques, and skills than any other teacher I’ve ever worked with. She’s the wisest, the humblest. Her love of the work is ubiquitous. You can feel it in the room, and it stays with you long after you leave.
Above all, Lea teaches people to work from the heart, from truth. She understands deeply. Listens fully. Notices meticulously. Her classes can be terrifying, but they are always transformative. I’ve had such fun, countless laughs and sobs, every class is different, always fresh, always new.
I am so grateful to have met, to work with, and to know Lea. I will cherish what I have learned from her for the rest of my life.
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DANIELLE KOENIG
UCLA, BA, Acting
NYU Tisch, MFA Musical Theatre WritingLea has completely changed my perspective on acting.
Sundays are my favorite days because I get to come to acting class and learn with students that are being molded by a teacher I honestly believe will one day be regarded as one of the defining acting teachers of the 21st century.
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HANNAH PROVISOR
Penn State, BFA Musical Theatre
Meticulous and tough, yet the most nurturing teacher I’ve ever worked with.
If you have the chance to work with Lea, it’s a chance you won’t want to pass up.
You will never find a more skilled, understanding, knowledgeable, or compassionate teacher.
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ANDRES LOPEZ
America is in the Heart, Hi-Arts (Brooklyn)
Working with Lea Floden is one of the great joys and privileges of my life. Under her guidance, Lea has shifted me from an aesthetic and cerebral way of working towards one that is personal, fully embodied, deeply expansive and always in terrifying pursuit of truth. Whether in class, privates or intensives, you are always being nudged towards new heights and uncharted territory, but you are never alone. Lea’s care, love and commitment to her students is unparalleled, it is part of the reason why growth and transformation amongst her students is so rapid and consistent. Even with her breadth of wisdom and deep knowledge of the craft, Lea approaches the work with great curiosity and humility, always creating space for your full self to be present and completely alive.
It seems impossible to articulate just how deeply Lea has shaped my life. From the moment we met, she saw me – in a way few people ever have – and right then, I knew I was home.
Get to Class and Be Changed
Lea offers technique classes for a variety of ages and levels. She carefully screens class members, striving always to have a learning environment that is about the work, not the marketing, and that is safe enough for each student to be willing to go out on the scariest possible limbs, without fear of being one-upped or judged. The result is a class that is always rigorous, always experiential, not pedantic, and always (safely) terrifying.
Classes That Follow Energetic Flow
Synthesize multiple methods.
Lea's teaching style combines unique ways to follow and shift energy with the multiple techniques she learned in the classes of many of the great 20th and 21st century master teachers, including William Esper, Stella Adler, Elizabeth Kemp, John Barton, and many more.
Lea follows the flow of the class, while at the same time following the needs of each student. The goal is always to seek out and remove energetic blocks, habits that inhibit freedom, acting myths that get in the way of truth. She helps students to replace all this with an impeccable sense of truth, a strong point of view, an ability to work from the body-mind (not the neocortex), and the ability to trust a technique in which you do not do anything that something or someone else does not make you do.
Add to this a loving and forgiving approach to breath, a rigorous approach to language, and an approach to structure that comes from deep within, and you have a class that restores one's faith in acting and in oneself.
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New circumstances require new methods.
This groundbreaking class transforms the inconvenience of Zoom into a unique teaching tool. In class, actors learn to make deeper connections to the unconscious, to gain new understanding of the relationship between playwright and actor, and discover a new sense of the great things that can be achieved when the actor realizes that their exploration and discovery of a play does not need to be vastly different from the playwright's original exploration and discovery.
Students find a new relationship between body, spirit and text, all while developing on-camera technique.
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The best way to ace any audition is to build skills.
And the best way to build skills is to get to class.
Lea has ongoing MFA & BFA Audition Classes that work on every aspect of these kinds of auditions. Students build skills, but also work on the details of mastering the overly competitive acting conservatory audition process.
In classes, Lea teaches professional acting technique, but also teaches other skills that include: showing who you truly are, managing “nerves,” truthful and appropriate contact with adjudicators, waiting room skills (these are essential), and correct protocol for follow-up.
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Shakespeare from every angle.
Using the techniques of John Barton, Patsy Rodenburg, Cicely Berry, Declan Donnellan and others, this unique class will liberate you from old-fashioned, cerebral approaches to the Bard.
If you think that you don't LIKE Shakespeare, or cannot do it, think again.
Working with verse can give you great joy, and shift the depth of your work, even in contemporary text.
This approach to the iambic is a MUST for BFA & MFA auditioners.
But it is a game changer for all actors.