COMPANY PRESENTATION
The Intentional Dreams Productions Company is a not-for-profit bilingual Training Center for Actors and Film and Theatre Production Company. Its creation is born of the initiative and strong desire of Gilles Plouffe and of a group of actors, Julie Barbeau, Luiza Cocora, Jean-Paul Figasso, Cindy François, Valérie Gagnon-Laniel, Owain Harris, Liza Stekolnikova, Leigh Ann Taylor, all passionate about the Realistic School of Acting.
The work phylosophy and spirit of the company is inspired by a method called the Organic Creative Process created by John Strasberg.
The company offers a complete training program for actors with yearly showcase presentations. The company also offers continued professional development by generating work opportunities for its members by creating, developing and producing Theatre and Film projects.
MISSION
Our mission is to train actors according to the principals of the Realistic School and produce and present a variety of productions with a well-advised choice of repertoire that truly represents all the creative aspects of the company and by so doing, allow its members to develop and blossom in a wide range of aspects such as acting, writing, directing and teaching.
IMPORTANT FACTS TO KNOW
The Intentional Dreams Productions Company aims to pursue the study of acting according to the realistic school, inspired by renowned actors and teachers such as Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Cheryl Crawford and Harold Clurman and what they did in New York in the 1930's by committing to the study of the Stanislavsky Method. Their belief in and passion for this work method resulted in the foundation of the famous "Group Theatre Company", after they witnessed a performance of Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre Company touring in North America. At that time, they had never seen such realistic, believable acting!
Today we continue to work with the essence of Realistic Acting with John Strasberg, son of Lee Strasberg, who is one of the last direct descendants of this work method that has had an international influence in both the Film and Theatre industries. John's technique, the Organic Creative Process, has evolved from his father's teachings and the Stanislavski Method. His technique defines and trains talent, imagination, intuition and spontaneous inspiration. His basic training develops the actor's knowledge of him/her self, beginning with, and developing from, one's natural capacity to become deeply involved in a character's world. An actor dreams awake, creating a new life from real and imaginary life. He/she makes the invisible world visible; expressing his/her intuitive and conscious vision of life in his/her art. Because an artist has something to say about life!
It is interesting to remind ourselves that this type of technique has influenced the work of such great artists as Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Clifford Odets, Elia Kazan and many other great actors, writers, directors and producers.