About Us
About Tameka Cruel
Tameka was born and raised in the sunshine state of Southern California. From a very young age she loved to perform in front of large crowds when ever given the chance. Tameka fell in love with theatre from watching her father Sherman Wiggs Jr. perform on the stage. Tameka went on to study at Chapman University in Orange Ca, the alma mater to both her parents where she received her Bachelors degree in Theatre Arts. After taking time away from the main stage, Tameka found herself coaching her son Seth Carr as he got older. Tameka has shaped her son's career and coached him into some of Hollywood's prominent films such as Marvels "Black Panther" where he portrayed the young version of Erik Killmonger who was played by Michael B. Jordan, "Breaking In' starring alongside Gabrielle Union. Also known for TV shows such as Nickelodeon's "Knight Squad" as Fizzwick, Bosch, Code Black , Brooklyn Nine-Nine just to name a few. With much success and such a strong passion for acting Tameka Cruel wanted to create a studio for all young actors to learn how to create an environment with the space that is given ( such as the audition room), utilize a range of different emotions, making strong choices in their scene work, listening skills, and most importantly having FUN!!!
CCC Acting Studio is a place where Creativity ,Confidence and Characters are made!
"Lets Play"
Our mission is to create a fun and disciplined environment for our young actors to explore all elements of developing characters with confidence.
Learning how to utilize the body and voice as a tool rather than focusing on just memorizing lines. Bringing the scene to LIFE! So lets PLAY!
BOOKED IT!!
We all love hearing the words "BOOKED IT!"
But the question everyone wants to know is, what are those actors doing to book the JOB and ROOM.
Making strong choices, staying committed to the character, learning to take risk and being able to take direction when given all lead to BOOKING!
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SCENE STUDY/SCRIPT ANALYSIS
ACTING CLASSES FOR KIDS
This specific class teaches our young actors the basic tools to use and exercise their minds through emotional range and body movement that will be applied in the actor's scene work. Learning how to create a backstory and develop specifics to a character they are playing
Script Analysis teaches our young actors the tools to understanding a scene by breaking to down. Establishing a tone, meaning of primary emotions ( happy, sad, anger, love , fear , jealousy, enthusiastic etc.) Creating subtext to guide you on your journey to be fully connected and committed the scene and character.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
Character breakdown teaches our young actors to find specifics for their characters such as ( age, gender, ethnicity and behavior). Making strong choices for the character instead of the young actor playing his/herself in the role finding moments in the scene to make the audience believe you believe.
IMPROV
Improv for our young actors teaches them to think quick, exercising the brain to create unscripted dialogue to tell a story getting out what we call " who what and who where" creating an environment with a suggested idea while at the same time having a task , using a wide range of big emotions.
AUDITION ROOM
CCC ACTING STUDIO has created space to sharpen our young actors audition skills for both commercial and theatrical auditions. The Audition Room will be treated as true to auditions/callbacks are conducted.