WELCOME TO JOHN BEALE
acting coach
John Beale is a teacher and award-winning actor based in Stratford, Ontario. He is a graduate of the Philippe Gaulier International Theatre School in Paris. He has trained, performed and taught extensively as a company member at the internationally acclaimed Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.
As part of the faculty at Seneca at York University, Humber College, and Randolph College for the Performing Arts he teaches acting, scene study, improv and clown. He is a master clown teacher and has been holding publicly offered performance workshops and coaching actors since 2005.
WORKSHOPS
ACTING COACH
UPCOMING
Weekend Clown Workshop in Halifax with John Beale
August 25th, 26th and 27th, 2023
Friday evening 7-9
Saturday and Sunday
10-5 each day
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Space TBA (Halifax Peninsula)
$300 plus hst
20% discount for students, returning participants, union members.
Pre-registration and payment is required as space will be limited to 16 people.
REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION
416-892-4322
Clown Workshop Fall Series in Toronto with John Beale
6 Tuesdays
Sept 12th -Oct 17th, 2023
6pm-9pm
Sweet Action Theatre 180 Shaw Street, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON
$400 plus hst
$400 plus hst $52 =$452 CAN
20% discount for students, returning participants, union members.
400-20%=320 plus hst(41.60)=$361.60
To register pre-payment is required to secure your spot as space will be limited to 14 participants. Please send an email transfer to this address:
Cancelation Policy
Full refunds for cancellations one week prior to workshop. For cancellations after that point the workshop fee will be put toward any future workshop.
This work encourages us to show up- to explore an open channel between ourselves and others. Clown teaches us not to push too much or shy away but to bring our full selves to the moment - to find our open, sensitive, vulnerable, human and ridiculous quality.
With this clown work you are committed to showing your virtuosity as a performer with such pleasure, openness, vulnerability and presence that we burst out laughing. We laugh because your pleasure to play is great. We also laugh when things go wrong for the clown or they aren’t received the way they thought they would be. We are engaged by seeing the clown deal with their situation. We fall in love with their energy; something we recognize; something deeply and ridiculously human.
"With this work people have to find a way of being beautiful and surprising...and by beautiful I mean being in the grip of pleasure or freedom.”
Philippe Gaulier
This work helps us get unstuck. It teaches us to listen, to re-discover play, not to push too much or shy away but to let go and be attuned to the moment - to find our open, sensitive, vulnerable, human and ridiculous quality. For performers and non-performers.
"With this work people have to find a way of being beautiful and surprising...and by beautiful I mean being in the grip of pleasure or freedom.”
Philippe Gaulier
We are more interesting than we think. We tend to present a polished veneer or a character we think people would like to see -both do us a disservice. With this training we learn about our deeply human and ridiculously funny side. Our idiot twin. The belly laugh from the audience is about the witnessing of something true and human and irresistible. Clear the debris. Step out of your cocoon and discover your beautiful ridiculousness.
TESTIMONIALS
"Dear John, When you did study in my school in Paris I did recognize you as a great actor. When I saw your show I recognized a great writer, poet and actor. But I knew it already. Thanks for your show, your friend, Philippe Gaulier”
Past Participants:
"Your workshop knocked a lot of stuff loose for me in a good way. Very grateful."
"John's workshop and his delivery were brilliant. Being able to play spontaneously allowed me to be at my best creatively. It gave me the opportunity to be "present", feel, let my ego go and unearth some amazing ideas."
"John Beale is a skilled and engaging facilitator. His workshop gave me new confidence in myself. I was brought back to life and discovered a more creative me. I laughed often and harder than I have in a long time. It was a very rewarding experience.”
“Seemed as if whatever plug had fallen out inside my soul was reconnected.”
“Thanks for guiding me through one of the most terrifying and exhilarating moments in my adult life. I very much appreciated your guidance during the last two days, and have certainly found some new perspectives that I would want to pursue further.”
”Thanks a bunch for your stellar workshop. I kind of feel like if I had come to a zen meditation workshop I wouldn't have made nearly the progress towards accepting the present moment as I did with you and the crew. I think i might have a closer understanding of what the Taoist mean by "non-doing" now. Thanks!
“What a stupendous weekend! I thoroughly enjoyed the work, managing to stay pretty loose (vulnerable) as we leapt from one challenging task to another. I do feel I made some real headway in discovering "who I am" i.e. my essence. I surprised myself! Again, thank you for a most exhilarating experience.
John helps you do what is needed most - the acting techniques and tricks to solve problems. Alternative approaches to the material are developed should you be asked in the audition to deliver the work differently.
"Dear John, When you did study in my school in Paris I did recognize you as a great actor. When I saw your show I recognized a great writer, poet and actor. But I knew it already. Thanks for your show,