Chris Fields Acting Studio

Specialties

Prospective students ask me, «What do you teach? Do you teach ‘Method,’ ‘Studio,’ ‘Meisner’?» I always respond that I teach acting. I say that in fact there is no one right way to act, that just as musicians or athletes know there isn’t only one way to play a note or throw a ball, it’s the same for us. I tell them that there is a lot of acting you don’t talk about, you actually can’t talk about, that the strongest work is personal and private and simple and specific. I say that acting is about connecting, simple human connection and our responsiveness to another based on that contact and our understanding of the material as dictated by the moment. I say your job is to be of service to that moment which is to be of service to the script. I say you come to class to work; that learning is experiential based which is a fancy way of saying that you teach yourself by doing. I say be driven, be hungry, you didn’t come to LA to wait tables, that those who do their work, get work.

–Technique (Meisner/​Repetition)

–Scene Study

–Audition Technique

–Private Coaching

History

Established in 1994.

Chris began teaching as an Adjunct Professor at SUNY Purchase in 1989 and since then has maintained a private studio in New York and Los Angeles. Over the years, his students have included Peter Facinelli, Danny Strong, Dave Giuntoli, Zach Quinto, Christine Estabrook, Kirk Acevedo, Emily Bergyl, Sprague Grayden, Mitch Pileggi, Sarah Carter, Emily Rose, Michael Learned, Ethan Embry, Sarah Jane Morris, Meghan Ory, Grant Shaud and Scott Wolf, to name a few.

As a director, most recently, he won the 2015 LADCC Award for direction for Tommy Smith’s Firemen and the 2014 LA Weekly Award for Best Comedy Direction for his production of Gary Lennon’s A Family Thing.

Meet the Business Owner

Chris F.

Business Owner

Chris Fields is a director, actor, teacher, and producer.

As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway in James Duff’s Homefront with Carroll O’Connor and Frances Sternhagen directed by Michael Attenborough, off Broadway in Gary Sinise’s original Steppenwolf production of Orphans, Michael Greif’s Machinal at both Naked Angels and The Public and the world première of David Ives’ Words Words Words at The Manhattan Punchline, to name just a few. Regionally, he’s worked at The Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, The Philadelphia Drama Guild, The Rep Theatre of St. Louis, The Missouri Repetory Theatre and was a proud member of the acting ensemble for Lloyd Richards at The Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. On film: Alien3, The Game, Fight Club and Zodiac for David Fincher as well as Jurassic Park, Apollo 13 and Stargate among others. He’s also been in numerous hour, half-​hour, mini-​series and mow’s on television.