Ireland\u2019s national screen acting school has opened its first international campus in Los Angeles, it was announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Bow Street Academy said its new L.A. location marks an expansion of its Dublin-based program, which emphasizes on-camera performance and real production conditions for actors.<\/p>\n
The new campus is led in part by co-founder Gerry Grennell, a veteran performance coach who has worked with actors including Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep and Natalie Portman, officials said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLos Angeles is where the work lives,\u201d Grennell said in a statement. \u201cIt made sense to bring the method here. Not to compete with what already exists, but to enhance it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The academy\u2019s approach, known as the Gerry Grennell Method, focuses on developing actors for on-camera work through techniques that combine psychology, philosophy and performance training.<\/p>\n
Unlike traditional stage-based programs, Bow Street emphasizes filmed performance from the outset, allowing students to work directly with cameras and review footage as part of their training.<\/p>\n
Co-founders Kirsten Sheridan and Shimmy Marcus said the Los Angeles campus is intended to build on the community-driven model developed in Ireland.<\/p>\n
The school offers a range of short- and long-term programs aimed at helping actors develop technical skills and gain industry exposure, according to the academy.<\/p>\n
Officials said the expansion comes at a time of uncertainty in the Los Angeles entertainment industry but reflects continued demand for training rooted in storytelling and screen performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s national screen acting school has opened its first international campus in Los Angeles, it was announced Wednesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2245,2791,2192,11324,48,52,51,47,50,49,23394,4265],"class_list":["post-292426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-acting","tag-campus","tag-first","tag-irish","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-opens","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}