Follow your heart

"I spent 46 years building a career, but until now, I never took the time to live my life!"

- Jim G., Take 2 Acting Student

REGINA SCHNEIDER
​TEACHER / ACTRESS

​"When I first started teaching, I noticed that my students all came from such varied walks of life. Some stumbled upon my classes having studied acting in high school, some in college, while others came to me with no acting experience at all, yet always having had an interest in it.

​What is it that draws someone to performing?

​I believe we ALL desire to express, and hunger for connection. Whether we're an artist, accountant, or stay at home mom; whether we are 8 years old, or 108, we humans were born to connect. To share. To tell stories. Our people did it around camp fires, before film...or even theatre existed! We are creative expressive beings naturally.

Something happens when we explore other characters and inhabit someone else's story- we begin to understand people. We find similarities where before we saw differences. We begin to open our hearts to acceptance, when before we judged. Performing connects us....and possibly heals us."​​

​Regina Schneider is a professional actress with a Master's Degree in Acting, from UCLA. She is co-founder of Los Angeles theatre company, Big Dog Little Dog. Regina has trained with some of the top teachers in Los Angeles and New York. A few of her television credits include Law & Order, Blacklist, Rescue Me, A Gifted Man, and All My Children. She has shared the screen with Glenn Close, Vincent D'Onofrio, Kelsey Grammer, Denis Leary and many others. 

Take 2 Actor's Studio is your second chance at a creative life!

If you've always dreamed of being an actor but never gave yourself permission to try, or life simply got in the way, then Take 2 Actor's Studio is for you!  This is a place to reignite those dreams and call forth the performer inside you.  We will approach our work from a personal perspective and also work on imagination to expand our range and understanding.  We explore techniques used by Stanislavski, Strasberg, Meisner, Hagen and many others.