GROK Acting Studio was founded by actor and coach, Sean Rose to help actors develop a technique they can depend on and use in professional practice. Each actor is encouraged to discover their own process and is given the tools, resources, and exercises on which to build a practice that works for them.
The studio offers serious actors a variety of classes in a safe and encouraging environment to take risks, grow, and further their craft and passion for the art of acting. Actors will learn to eliminate any emotional, physical, intellectual and psychological blocks to help them access vulnerability, passion, rage, and a range of emotions essential to displaying the human condition truthfully and encourage the freedom of expression.
An actor has two primary functions: The need to be affected by the world around them and the ability to express that which they are affected by. Blocks in either area will prevent the actor from achieving and meeting the demands of the material. A rich-variety of exercises and processes are provided to eliminate each individual actor’s blocks, inhibitions, and obstacles in their ability to be affected and express deeply, truthfully and enter into the Life of the Human Spirit, and to be the best actor that they can be.
The work enhances the actor’s commitment and range influenced through the works of Stanislavsky, Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, Robert Lewis, Boleslavsky, and more. Actors will understand how much energy is required to move themselves from the state that they enter each session in and to move themselves into the state that is being asked of them by the material. This is a transformational journey towards the self, to display all of the natural and organic gifts each human being is capable of expressing.
There is no right, no wrong, just truth.
About Sean Rose
Sean Rose is the founder of Grok Acting Studio: /ˈgrok/ To understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. Feeling there were few truly artistically driven forums for actors to train, he was inspired to create the Grok Acting Studio
“I believe an actor’s experience each week in session should be a microcosm of all of the sacrifice, struggle, energy, effort, and risk they have already given in just moving to Los Angeles or New York in committing to this great art of the human condition. In each session, actors experience a range of real and meaningful life born out of this risk. These journeys contain depth, danger, excitement, and as artists we learn to express this “life of the human spirit” through the words of the characters. There are no gurus here but we want those who are guiding actors to be capable and willing to do what they are asking the actors to do. There is no one right way or one technique, but a unique path for each actor. Our hope to shine a light on the capacity for the rich, meaningful, and deep life that the actor already contains. Ideally, the word ‘teaching’ in this art could be done away with, perhaps it is more of an unlearning of the rules and restrictions we have brought with us once we decide to be actors, to be human.”
His actors have starred in and auditioned for major films and franchises for WB, CW, CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, DISNEY, to just name a few. His students have also studied under great architects of craft such as Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Bobby Lewis, Harold Clurman and have attended top theater college programs such as Northwestern, NYU Tisch, UCLA, USC, RADA, Rose Bruford U.K., Rutgers, University of the Arts, Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYFA, etc..
Sean Rose credits the teachings and contributions left by Konstantin Stanislavsky, Lee Strasberg, Robert Lewis, Harold Clurman, Stella Adler, Sanford Mesiner, Uta Hagen, Richard Boleslavsky, Maria Ouspenskaya, Arthur Penn, Elia Kazan, Kim Stanley, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, to name a few.