Bruce Ornstein Acting Workshop, Manhattan

He is great. Very thorough! I will be studying with him for a long while.

Great class! Bruce is an excellent teacher and the class is terrific! It's exactly what I was looking for and I'd recommend his classes to anyone looking to improve their craft.

Bruce is a really great teacher and takes the time to work with people individually. His criticism is helpful not judgmental.

If you like only getting 5 minutes to act in a 3 hour class where most of it is devoted to non-acting activity (like running around screaming for the 1st hour and then talking about the biggest shame in your REAL life for the next hour), then this is the place for you. Acting teachers that make acting class into weird pop-psychology experiences are usually pretty messed up themselves. And I knew it was time to go when he was unreachable for 2 the two weeks my scene partner and I called him to get a scene to rehearse and then he threw my scene partner under the bus and said something like, "Do you think she is going to hold up her end of the responsibility?" to which I replied that she and I had been in complete communication and both of us had tried to reach him, and he had been the one who flaked. I have been acting for 20 years and wanted to get into a nice fun acting class and this was just not it. Also, beware when an acting teacher makes statements like, "If you really care about your career, you will do ______________." And the blank is something that in your gut the teacher should not be asking for. Statements like that are manipulation and work especially well with young, enthusiastic students who want to give the entertainment industry their all. Sadistic people in the entertainment industry know this and will use this... So just be careful.