PROFESSIONAL SCENE STUDY SERIES

PROFESSIONAL SCENE STUDY SERIES with MULTI AWARD-WINNING STAR OF AUSTRALIAN FILM, TELEVISION AND THEATRE, KERRY ARMSTRONG: A scene study masterclass series grounded in the Uta Hagen Method.

Ongoing 12-Week Program
Sundays I 5:30pm – 9:30pm

Commencing November 15, 2026

Kerry Armstrong is one of Australia’s most accomplished screen and stage actors and a technically grounded acting teacher.

Kerry trained at HB Studio in New York with Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof, after receiving a scholarship. While in America, she performed major classical roles including Juliet, Ophelia and Isabella, appeared in Dynasty, Murder, She Wrote and One Life to Live, and became a founding member of The Actors’ Gang alongside Tim Robbins, Helen Hunt and other Oscar Award winning actors.

Her landmark Australian performances include: Sonja in Lantana; a beautifully restrained, emotionally complex performance, Heather Jelly in SeaChange; warm, funny, vulnerable and enormously loved by audiences. Leading roles in MDA, Bed of Roses and The Wrong Girl, and more recent work including Frayed, Spreadsheet, Darby and Joan, Strife and the 2026 Stan series Dear Life.

In 2001, she achieved something extraordinary: she won the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Feature Film for Lantana and Best Actress in a Television Drama for SeaChange in the same year, demonstrating her range – delivering highly naturalistic dramatic work and distinctive, heightened comedy equally well. 

What makes Kerry so valuable as a teacher is that her work is rooted in Uta Hagen’s approach: truthful behaviour, specificity, imagination, sensory reality, relationships and actually living within the circumstances, not presenting an idea of the character. Kerry also understands how to translate that depth into screen performance without making it look laboured or overprepared.

She is instinctive, emotionally courageous and unconventional. Students may initially find her teaching different from a neat, academic class because she works personally and intuitively, but that is precisely where its value lies. Kerry uncovers the individual actor, not manufacture identical performances.

Kerry represents a rare bridge between rigorous New York training, classical theatre foundations, a sustained professional career and truthful Australian screen acting.

Very few emerging (or established) Australian actors are given such intimate and continuing access to an artist of Kerry’s calibre, experience and award-winning body of work. We feel incredibly fortunate to have Kerry based here in Melbourne, and privileged that she continues to invest so generously in the development of our actors.

As part of a direct teaching lineage connected to Uta Hagen and HB Studio, Kerry embodies everything Film & Television Studio International has stood for over the past 25 years: exceptional training, artistic integrity and the opportunity for actors to learn directly from extraordinary working professionals.

Places Strictly Limited.

Your Commitment:

• 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 Non Disclosure Agreement.
• Strictly for actors 18 years+

“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