Acting & Voice Training In Chennai

Taught by people the industry still hires.

A performer learns from what a mentor does, not from what a mentor remembers. So the faculty here is kept deliberately narrow: people with current work, teaching the craft they were paid for this year — not stories from a decade ago.

Growing slowly: two faculty positions are being finalised now, and they will be announced only once the names are confirmed.

Yatish Mahadev, Founder of Basement Actors Academy
Founder • Artistic Director

Yatish Mahadev

The Mentor Standard

Three rules for
who teaches here

01

Currently working

A mentor who stops getting industry work stops teaching here. The room deserves today's sets, not yesterday's.

02

On their feet

Nobody lectures from slides. Mentors demonstrate, interrupt, correct and demand another take.

03

Judged by students

A mentor's real portfolio is the performers they produce, and everyone here accepts being measured that way.

Do you teach what you still do?

If you act, dub or direct for a living and can pass it on, we should talk.

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