How to Start an Actor Workshop Business

Business Overview:

If you have a passion for the arts and a desire to help others succeed, consider learning how to start an actor workshop business. With this simple business idea you organize and run workshops to help existing or aspiring actors learn new skills or to improve upon already existing ones. Your workshops will focus upon helping your clients learn and improve in the various areas of acting and performance—improvisation, voice projection, script interpretation, stage combat, and so on. If you are already a professional in the acting world then starting this business would be a great opportunity for you to pass on your knowledge to others, and generate a great income doing so. If not, you can easily take classes that will train you how to teach actor workshop classes or, alternatively, you can hire professionals with experience in the acting world to teach classes for you. Another great advantage to starting an actor training workshop is that it’s one of those business ideas that costs very little to start up, as you can even run your workshops from your own home. As your clientele base builds you will likely have requests for one-on-one training as your clients go on casting calls. They’ll want that specialized attention to prepare for the audition—and will be willing to pay top dollar for it.

A Day in the Life of an Actor Workshop Business Owner:

As an actor workshop business owner, a typical day would start with a quick review of your calendar to check which workshops you have scheduled for the day. If you choose to teach your workshops yourself, then you would then prepare for your classes and review your workshop plans. You clients would then arrive, and throughout the day you would then deliver your workshops—which would focus on specific areas of acting such as stage combat, voice projection, improvisation and so on. During these workshops you would give exercises to your clients, observe their performance and give suggestions to help them improve. Of course, if you were to hire teachers to deliver teach workshops for you then they would plan and conduct your workshops, and you would oversee them and ensure everything runs smoothly.

About Your Customers:

Your customers will be actors who are looking to either learn new skills or to improve upon existing ones, so as to become more adept and successful in their profession.

What You Need to Start:

• A computer with a high-speed internet connection
• A company name
• A business license (if required in your area)
• A studio to conduct your workshops in—or you can conduct your workshops from home
• Marketing (posters, flyers, adverts, etc.)

The Good:

• The startup costs are very low.
• You can run this business from your own home.
• It’s a lively, exciting and high energy business.
• You can meet great people.
• It can be very rewarding as you’ll be helping actors improve and become more successful.

The Bad:

• It can take time to build up your reputation.
• You may have to work with some difficult or temperamental people.

Resources:

• Society for Theatrical Artists’ Guidance and Enhancement
• Bureau of Labor Statistics on Actors
• Wikipedia on Acting Workshops

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