WHO WE ARE
about us
Cameron Thor, Alice Carter, and our few instructors have been producing better actors for twenty years here at The Carter Thor Studio.
At The Studio our instruction and programs are geared specifically for the film and television actor, but we also operate The Ventura Court Theater where classes are taught and Studio members can put on shows.
We offer extensive classes in scene study and on-camera, but along with those we have regular cold reading classes, comedy workshops, writing groups, and even a stage combat class! Many of these additional classes and workshops are included in the cost of membership.
Along with these we have a vibrant and on-going guest speaker program with guests from both sides of the camera, past guests have included actress Sharon Stone, director David Fincher, and casting legend Jane Jenkins. Keep your eye on our upcoming guests because you’ll never know who might show up and these are exclusively available to current Studio Members – it’s all just part of our community.
Our 80 seat theater is home to anywhere from 12 to 20 shows a year; each one of them produced exclusively by Studio Members. We give you the theater and you give the theater to the community. If you are creative, ambitious, and love to act - you don’t have to go and lay out thousands of dollars to rent a theater; we’ll give you ours as part of the program. Again, it’s all part of our community.
We’ve never advertised, never had too. We have remained one of the best kept secrets in Hollywood and we like it that way. By being hard to find, it means that only the hard working actor will find us. That’s fine with us; we don’t teach motivation, we teach motivated people how to kick ass!