THE WELL
A Character Intensive
with Peter Kalos
THE PHILOSOPHY
It's not you. It's the character. This course was built over nearly two decades of teaching actors how to find someone other than themselves — not through imitation, but through a deliberate, physical process of discovery. You'll work with a historical figure or archetype you choose yourself: researching them, building them, and ultimately living inside their public life, their private life, and the parts of them they'd never show anyone. This is not a lecture. Every session is live, interactive, and built around doing — not watching.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Four sessions over four weeks. Two hours each. Live, every time.
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Week One — Building the physical and psychological foundation of your character, drawn from your own personality and the people around you. In Week One, you'll build the prototype of your character.
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Week Two — The character's upbringing: casting the real people in your life as the people who shaped your character, and building the moments that formed them.
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Week Three — The three lives every character carries: Public: what they show. Private: what they only reveal to intimate friends or family. Secret: what they'd never admit to anyone. You'll build out all three and learn how to adjust each one for use in a scene.
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Week Four — Now you know your character. You'll learn how to bring them into a monologue and a scene.
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Closing — Each week builds directly on the last. By the end, you'll have a fully built character, and a process and structure you can apply to future roles and characters.
LOGISTICS
Delivered live via Zoom — not pre-recorded, not self-paced
Small group capped at 10 actors, to keep the work personal
Camera on; full attention expected — this is a working room, not a webinar
Homework between sessions — this is where a lot of the real work happens
Open to working actors at a professional or semi-professional level. This isn't for beginners — it's for actors who already have skills and want to elevate them.
DATES & TIMES
Starts Wednesday, September 16.
NEW YORK — Wednesdays, 8:00pm ET
LOS ANGELES — Wednesdays, 8:00pm PT
INVESTMENT
$1,100 USD for the 4-week intensive program — paid in two parts: a $550 deposit to secure your place, with the remaining $550 due one week before the course begins.
Please note: the deposit is non-refundable. If your plans change, we're happy to apply it as credit toward a future workshop.