Conducting a workshop is not only a teaching job for me. I choose the subjects for my workshops according to my own questions and professional interests, in order to deal with the secrets of our craft that are not yet opened to me. Upon entering my workshop you’ll automatically become the collaborator, the researcher – not only the student. Please consider that when choosing your involvement.

Currently running and nearest programs and classes:

Shelton Theater, San Francisco, January-February 2012 (first class on Saturday, Jan.21)
For more information of schedule and enrollment please visit Shelton Studios website.

     This 5 week long class will immerse its participants in the process of professional understanding of dramatic text and the techniques of transmitting it into performing structure.  The program will be particularly focused on the Method of Action Analysis (analyzing the script with the help of dramatic action) as one of the most authentic contemporary methods based on the ideas proposed by K. Stanislavsky.

 -- A new educational program GITIS-West  

is launching in San Francisco in fall 2011 - for more information and details please go to: GITIS-West page of Facebook

The Program in devoted to classical Russian theater tradition - from the basics of Stanislavsky's System, through Etude Method and Method of Action Analysis to the very recent development known as Theater-As-A-Game.  The Program consists from 3 intensive sessions, first two of which will be held in San Francisco in fall 2011 and early spring 2012, and the third session in summer 2012 will happen in Moscow, on the premises and with professors from GITIS - Russian University of Theater Arts.

 -- Michael Chekhov Workshop in Taipei, Taiwan  

the last session was conducted in July-August 2011, next session is in planning, for more information please visit  ITE website 

Unique acting technique proposed by one of the greatest Russian/American actors and theatre educators ever – Michael Chekhov – will be practically studied and exercised with application of modern approach to this method developed within the contemporary theory of Theater-As-A-Game.  

Mr. Liptsin, the award-winning stage director of international niveau, one of the leading developers and researchers of this theory (recent PhD on educational aspects of Theater-As-A-Game), will introduce his approach to the main elements of Michael Chekhov’s technique as well as will take you through the process of developing a scene and a monologue, using those elements. This multipart course is proven to be the most effective way of understanding and mastering the contemporary applications of emotional and physical acting to the art of performing on stage in our days.  The course was very successfully presented in the United States, Russia, France, Canada, Ukraine and Germany.  It’s for the first time now that it will be taught in Taiwan.  

-- Classes-rehearsals in preparation for the last year  production of the Twelfth Night  by Shakespeare - Moscow Slavic University, course of Professor Novikova - April-May 2012

-- Master-class on Michael Chekhov technique   with students from Directing Department at GITIS University, Moscow, course of Professor Kudriashov - May 2012

Academy Award nominee Michael Chekhov brought a unique technique of acting to Hollywood. The Moscow Art Theater’s most brilliant star, he escaped from Russia following a controversial portrayal of Hamlet. His system turned Stanislavsky’s acting theory on its head and empowered the legendary Hollywood stars and directors of the 40s, 50s and beyond to create their most memorable work on stage and in film. The range and scope of the noted artists to be inspired by Michael Chekhov’s coaching is astonishing: Ingrid Bergman, Lloyd Bridges, Gary Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Jennifer Jones, Gene Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Robert Walker, directors Martin Ritt, Arthur Penn and many others…

    This workshop proposes a practical experience of immersing into the mystery of emotional acting. One of the best actors/teachers of the 20^th century Russian and American theatre – Mikhail Chekhov – whom Stanislavsky called, “my system as it is,” created a unique volume of practical advise for actors who are interested in blossoming their imagination and artistic spontaneity on stage. 

    Mikhail Chekhov’s method of training actors and developing characters on stage has captivated the interest and attention of many acclaimed theatre professionals all other the world since it was published in 1946 under the title “On the Art of Actor”. This method was substantially adapted to the contemporary theatre by such renowned Russian directors and pedagogues as Maria Knebel and Mikhail Butkevich.

    Oleg Liptsin, who was a student of Mikhail Butkevich in Moscow in the mid-80s and since then is practicing and developing the adapted method in his directing and teaching in different countries, will read, analyze and exercise with you the most important parts of M.Chekhov’s system.
    During this intensive workshop each participant will have a chance to apply a theoryfrom M.Chekhov's book to his own acting experience in preparing a monologue, scene or a character from such classical authors as Shakespeare, Gogol, Moliere and others. The workshop can also be seen as a tool for elaborating your repertoire for future auditions.

• The Etude Method of text analysis and rehearsals (Stanislavsky-Knebel-Efros)
• Towards the Theatre-Of-Game (Mikhail Butkevich and his book)
• The undercurrent in A. Chekhov’s plays
• Risky games of Moliere
• How to transform a non-dramatic text into stage performance?
• Theatre of Russian Absurd (Kharms, Vvedensky)
• Structured improvisation – a new way of acting
• Directing a modern show