MARK’S WORKSHOPS

workshops - WEBINARS

Sign up to attend my workshops and webinars, which explore strategies to deepen and accelerate your artistic progress.

Let’s spark your artistic imagination!

Let’s spark your artistic imagination!

Mark’s imaginative, rigorous, and soulful work guides actors to discoveries that are at once both astonishingly truthful and wonderfully unexpected. As he is in person his work is refreshingly optimistic.
— Michael Wilson, Director
 
 
 

CHARACTER AND CHARACTERIZATION

“Mark Olsen remains one of the most influential educators of my life. He has the unique ability to balance life and art, and the even rarer skill of helping his students to nurture both. He approaches his work with great discipline and a light heart. He is also an original thinker and encourages his students to be the same. I wish everyone could spend time in class with Mark.” 

Ty Burrell, Actor


PERSONAL practice AND PRESENCE

Every once in a great while, you experience something so profoundly special that you recognize, almost from the first moment, that it is going to make a life-long impact on you. This is how I felt from my first contact with Mark Olsen and his teaching. If you were to ask me, “Who as been the most important teacher in your life?”  --I would say without hesitation: Mark Olsen. Mark’s classes will push you, gently, out of your comfort zone, and lead you to discover a deeper awareness of your body and spirit than you have ever known. Perhaps more than anything, I would say that Mark’s penultimate teaching gift is to inspire each of his students to unlock and shine forth their inner artist, and to recognize the unique potential of what they can create. 

Gabriel Grilli, Theatre Artist, Actor, Writer


working the muscle of attention

Mark has a beautiful way of combining the physical self with the spiritual self; a journey that becomes as much about finding one’s potential strength physically, as well as a journey of complete self-discovery. And all this is explored while staying firmly grounded in the world, the art form, and the self.

Andrea Runge, Actress


SESSIONS ROTATE MONTHLY

All Webinars $50.00 Workshops: Variable between $200.00 and $300.00


PROJECT BASED
Courses

Here our work is aimed at securing doable goals and moving step by step to a finished product. This can be a one-person show, development of a stage play, stage or movie musical, film, T.V., animation, as well as special comic or serious works devised for social media.

 
 
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gestation, creation, completion

Launch into a creative journey designed to take your stirrings and swirling ideas from their raw unformed state into a form that is vivid, clear, and presentable.


Week 1 — Excavation and personalization
Week 2 — The clarifying process
Week 3 — Selection and refinement
Week 4 — Review and Reveal

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tinkering, polishing, completion

This project work is aimed at taking a completed or almost completed work and putting it through the paces, creatively tinkering to unlock the treasure chest, polishing the gems, and moving it to a final form that is ready to be appreciated.


Week 1 — Honoring the template
Week 2 — Notes and counter-notes
Week 3 — Bringing it to a boil
Week 4 — Advancing structure

Week 5 and 6 — Bringing it home


4-week project courses: $800.00
6-Week project courses: $1,100.00


private Coaching

We will create a personalized plan with regular classes to build momentum, and help you reach your artistic goals.

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FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION

PRIVATE COACHING SESSIONS $150.00 hr.