PROFESSIONAL SCENE STUDY SERIES

PROFESSIONAL SCENE STUDY SERIES WITH MULTI AWARD-WINNING ACTOR, AUSTRALIAN ICON KERRY ARMSTRONG.

Ongoing 4-Week Program
Thursdays I 6:30pm – 9:30pm

Commencing February 6, 2025

An Extraordinary Opportunity to Study with one of Australia’s most Respected Performing Artists. Take your Performance from a Five to a Ten.

Kerry’s scene study is a highly structured course for students with serious professional and artistic intent. It is an immersion in the practical approach to the craft of acting, for the fearless actor willing and able to unlock their true creative self. Participants work on scenes from award-winning television dramas and feature films. Please note this is a no holds barred intensive program. Previous students of Film and Television Studio International are welcome to continue working with Kerry. We also encourage new participants to apply but will require your headshot and resume upon application.

Kerry is an award-winning performing artist who made Australian history winning two AACTA Awards in the same year for Most Outstanding Lead Actress in a Television Drama and Most Outstanding Lead Actress in a Feature Film (where she was nominated alongside Nicole Kidman). Kerry graduated as a full-time student at HB Studios in New York, where she was personally hand-picked by Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagan as their scholarship recipient. An incredible achievement for Kerry who was a teenager at the time, hailing from Australia. Other notable graduates from HB Studios include (but are not limited to) Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Susan Batson, Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway, Cynthia Nixon, William H Macy, to name but a few. Kerry has gone on to have a hugely decorated career spanning many decades in the USA and Australia both on screen and stage, becoming a household name globally.

Kerry has just finished a hugely successful run of playwright Angus Cerini’s latest play, Into the Shimmering World, which premiered at the Sydney Theatre Company to rave reviews. She has completed filming the second series of STRIFE, alongside Asher Keddie; and is currently filming upcoming Series DIVIDED BY ELEVEN; and a highly anticipated series to be announced in 2025.

“Emotional Courage. This series of training is about Respect for Acting, Writing and the dedication required to be a truly great Artist.

You will be required to summon all of your emotional courage, curiosity and stamina, your humour and sensitivity in order to focus on the discipline required to succeed and thrive in this wonderfully complex, collaborative and at times, extremely challenging business.

The reality of long days, and the understanding that you are one part of an entire team, means that you must build a robust relationship with yourself, so insecurity doesn’t overwhelm you when you are required to reveal yourself again and again to bring the story to life.

That is your job. Mine is to help you get there.”  – Kerry Armstrong

• Kerry will share the techniques at the heart of her acting process.
• Students will study scenes from film and television.
• You must be prepared to train within a creative environment that demands artistic excellence and commitment at all times over the duration of the course.
• You must acknowledge your responsibility in the work, to your fellow students, to yourself and to the audience. 
• This program requires physical and emotional stamina, flexibility and awareness.
• Students who are accepted to take part in the Professional Scene-Study Series will be required to sign a disclaimer.
• Strictly for actors 18 years+

Kerry Armstrong is one of Australia’s most renowned stage and screen legends.

Having won many of Australia’s most prestigious film and television awards, she made history when she won Best Actress in a Feature Film for Lantana at the AFI Awards and the IF Awards and Best Actress in a Television Series at the AFI Awards in the same year, for her starring role in the original Seachange. 

Beginning her career on television in her native Australia, she emigrated to the United States in 1981 to train directly under Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York City on an acting scholarship.  With the studio’s Playwrights Foundation, she played Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Ophelia in Hamlet, and Isabella in Measure for Measure.  She then went on to star as Christine in Tom Stoppard‘s Dalliance, had an ongoing role in daytime serial One Life to Live, and starred on Aaron Spelling’s Dynasty as Elena, Duchess of Brahna.  An original member of the famed Los Angeles based Actor’s Gang, co-founded by Tim Robbins, John Cusack and Helen Hunt, Kerry continued to work in the US over the years, starring in Murder She Wrote (opposite Angela Lansbury); CBS telemovie Heart of Fire; ABC mini-series 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; The Edge of Night; Tales from the Darkside; and NBC Universal/Stan series Joe vs. Carole.

Upon her return to Australia in 1987, she went on to star in many television shows including (but not limited to): The Wrong Girl; Halifax f.p.; Ocean Girl; High Tide; Bed of Roses; Come in Spinner; Police Rescue; All Together Now; Blue Heelers; Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left; Skyways; Prisoner; Neighbours; Spreadsheet; Grey Nomads; Darby & Joan; Seachange: A New Beginning and comedy series Frayed.Her starring roles in films such as critically acclaimed feature Lantana alongside Geoffrey Rush and Anthony LaPaglia, as well as her many television credits, have seen her nominated for both national and international awards.

Kerry’s other film credits include (but are not limited to): Director Paul Currie’s 2:22 and One Perfect Day; Director Paul Ireland’s Pawno (for which she received an AACTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Kerry’s 6th AACTA nomination); Jesse O’Brien’s comedy horror Two Heads Creek; Anna Reeve’s The Oyster Farmer; Darren Ashton’s Razzle Dazzle; Nadia Tass’ Amy; Mark Joffe’s Grievous Bodily Harm; Dean Murphy’s The Very Excellent Mr Dundee (opposite Paul Hogan), and the Australian classic, Bruce Beresford’s The Getting of Wisdom.

Kerry is a founding member of Big H’Art, a highly acclaimed not-for-profit theatre company known for its work in raising community awareness and empowering marginalized people throughout Australia. 

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