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Interview with Eric
ERIC STEPHAN KLINE currently teaches all the classes at the Workshop.
Eric taught with Tony Barr for over a decade. During that time he was also a Visiting Lecturer in Dramatic Art at the University
of California at Irvine. He also contributed the section of exercises to the latest edition of ACTING FOR THE CAMERA.
Eric has coached actors for hundreds of auditions and scores of feature films including "Amistad", "The American President",
"City Slickers", "Get Shorty", "The Hurricane", "In Good Company", "Mighty Joe Young", "Nixon", "Payback", "Quiz Show", and
"State and Main".
He has also worked as a visual consultant on a number of television shows, including "Medium" and "Grey's Anatomy".
Oscar Winner Gavin Hood, Director "Tsotsi":
"I also took a lot of classes with a wonderful
acting teacher, Eric Kline, at the Film Actors
Workshop, and the performance techniques
of Eric...it's not really about giving an actor a
line reading, it's about helping the actor...
focus on the other actor, so that your line
comes as a genuine response to what
you're receiving from the other actor, not
just in terms of the line, but the body
language, the emotion, and everything
else that's floating underneath the line,
and between the lines...that technique was
very useful..."
TONY BARR founded the Film Actors Workshop in 1960. Tony was a network executive for over 25 years, first at ABC, then
at CBS, where he was a Vice President of CBS Entertainment Productions. He was responsible for the creative supervision of
"Dallas", "Magnum P.I.", "Knots Landing", and many other CBS series.
Tony was member of the Director's Guild of America, and the Screen Actors Guild, and served on the Board of Governors
of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Tony passed away four years ago at the age of 81. He is still missed by his students, his colleagues in the industry,
and by a whole new generation of acting teachers, for whom he was both a mentor and an inspiration.
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