Best Drama School Glendale Near Me

4worldlovers: “Working with Gregory Berger has been a revelation. His approach centers around unleashing and tending to your innate imaginative capacity. He has taught me how to investigate text with specificity and how to load up my imagination, trusting that emotion follows when adequately provoked by specific imaging. His work involves investigating all senses in order to create three dimensional characters that are unique and born of the actor’s personal interests. Ultimately, my work with Berg has taught me how to trust myself, and that is invaluable!”

“Gregory has helped reconnect me to my imagination as an actor and to my sense of mission as an artist. His method is both rigorous and irreverent, always pushing you to question yourself and your surroundings. By unleashing your innate sense of playfulness, he grounds you in the most active and surprising ways – allowing you to unmask your privacy.”

“Gregory Berger is a passionate and clear instructor teaching real-world craft and practical methods for actors.”

Gregory Berger-Sobeck is a graduate and former acting faculty member at the Yale School of Drama in addition to teaching bi-coastally both in Los Angeles and New York. Additionally, he has taught workshops all over the world including in London, Paris, Sydney, and Tahiti.

Gregory’s many regular private coaching clients include Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o (Us, Black Panther), Emmy winner Riz Ahmed (The Night Of), Winston Duke (Us, Black Panther), and Portia Doubleday (Mr. Robot) among many others.

Mr. Berger has or is currently coaching on the following shows: Titans, Flow, Stargirl, Helstrom, Manifest, Physical, and an untitled Tracy Oliver project.

Mr. Berger opened The Berg Studios in Los Angeles in 1998, where he is the artistic director and master acting teacher. As well as teaching in Los Angeles, Mr. Berger taught on camera acting at the Yale School of Drama. Berg Studios alumni have been Emmy Award Winners, Emmy Award Nominees, acted on Broadway and have had multiple series regular and guest star roles on television. Mr. Berger has also been voted Best Acting Class, Best Classical Class, Best Monologue Coach and Private Coach by Backstage Magazine.

As an actor he has was nominated best actor at the Beverly Hills Film Festival and the S.O.Y.S. Film Festival for the film Persona. The film was also in the semi-finals for the Best Short category for the Academy Awards. Guadalupe the Virgin, another film he starred in, was named best film in the Mexico International Film Festival.

Prior​ to Yale​ he trained at The Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City. He has studied with such legendary teachers as Paul Mann, Michael Howard, Kim Stanley, Nikos Psacharopoulos and Earle R. Gister. His New York stage credits include Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, The Flowing Peach, Romeo and Juliet, The Admiral Bashful, The Shrewing of Blanco Posnet, Molly, Andrew After Dark, Much Ado About Nothing, Faust, and The Colonization. Regional credits include work at the Yale Repertory Theater and The Yale School of Drama: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, King John, Measure for Measure, Three Sisters, and A Ride Across Lake Constance, to name a few. Among his directing credits are Dolores and Sisters at the Company of Angels and the west coast premiere of John Ford Noonan’s POPPS.


Our studio is dedicated to cultivating the actor’s skillset through imaginative and behavioral work. Students strive for authenticity and bold originality by building a repeatable technique.


Our approach is twofold: first providing the actor with tools to make choices from the text, and then leading them to find their own spontaneous behavior. In doing so, the actor’s task shifts from self-consciously asking “What do I look like?” to examining “What do I see?” We believe that this foundation is applicable to film, television, and stage, across all genres and media.


The Berg Studios faculty is primarily composed of graduates of The Yale School of Drama and The Juilliard School. Unique among Los Angeles acting schools, we replicate the techniques of the top graduate acting programs in the country.

We offer on-going classes led by our core teaching staff of working professionals, as well as curated workshops taught by guest faculty from around the world.

Berg Studios was founded in 1998 by Gregory Berger, alumnus and previous faculty member of the Yale School of Drama​, where he taught on-camera scene study.

It is never about right or wrong, but about illuminating one’s own authenticity and originality; which is what casting people want to see!​

4worldlovers:

Welcome to The Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio (EMAS), a dynamic acting training program for those who want to study the craft of acting in a challenging and inspiring environment. Our reputation is for producing exciting and spontaneous actors with reliable acting technique. That is why The Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio is ranked as the top acting program in Los Angeles by CBS and Backstage, among others.


Grounded in the foundations of The Meisner Technique, our focus is on strengthening the actor’s imagination, expanding their emotional range, and discovering what makes them unique. It is your uniqueness that is your most valuable asset as an actor. We want you to learn to be fearless, make mistakes, take risks, develop a reliable process, respect the craft and feel supported along the way! If this is your dream it will take time, dedication and passion to pursue it. If you are ready to make that commitment – The acting coaches at Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio are ready to invest in YOU!

4worldlovers: As a young child, Wayne C. Dvorak grew up on black-and-white movies and was enthralled with acting and actors from the beginning. At age 15, he was scouted as a promising actor while he was in a high school play, and then immediately went into performing in community theater. Later continuing drama study in college, he was mentored at the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota by the celebrated Sir Tyrone Guthrie, who during his lifetime was considered the greatest director on the English-speaking stage including in both London and New York. At the Guthrie, Mr. Dvorak experienced first-hand the rehearsals and performances of star legends like Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, George Grizzard, and Ellen Greer. And he sat in on discussions about writing and directing with the great Arthur Miller and Harold Clurman.


In the early 1970's, Mr. Dvorak came to Hollywood. He continued his study for TV and film in Los Angeles classes, performed at the Mark Taper Forum, and he worked on television with such greats as Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore, Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Angela Lansbury, William Shatner, and Peter Falk. During his acting career, he appeared in such shows as Murder, She Wrote; Hill Street Blues; Seinfield; The Nanny; Evening Shade; Everybody Loves Raymond; and The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case with Anthony Hopkins.

Mr. Dvorak began coaching other actors in the late 1970's because he realized he had a talent for helping his fellow actors understand scripts and bring out the best in their acting. As a result, in 1982 he opened his own acting studio -- the Wayne Dvorak Acting Studio.

When asked why he now dedicates all his time to coaching actors, he says that he simply likes seeing the actor "get it." Says Mr. Dvorak –

"I think there is a difference between teaching and coaching. I think the teacher can give you a body of information and you can get that. So, for example, if someone is teaching you about a noun and a verb and an adverb you can get that because those are definitions and you can pass on information. But a real coach is someone who has an eye for coaching and really understands what they’re seeing. I think that’s a talent. And I think some people who are teaching in Los Angeles really have it. The people that do have that coaching talent can see the person, can see what they can do to guide that person, and know what they can do to make that person freer and deeper in their work."