This is a one semester advanced acting class that explores process from the outside in as well as from the inside out utilizing tools that encompass naturalistic technique and post modern methods to train artists to bring dynamic naturalism to their work on stage and screen. Through Viewpoint training, improvisation, research and guided rehearsal, students investigate multiple approaches for creating a role, devising staging, deepening emotional connection within the context of monologue and scene study. Texts include contemporary and classic drama as well as student devised works. Students are encouraged to work on self generated projects (C.O.W. pieces) to explore strategies and process. Goals of this class are to impart a thorough understanding of the actor's process and responsibilities; to craft work that is multileveled, detailed and well researched; to build performances that are unselfconscious and fully rooted in the individual artist's personal truth.