The Actors Studio opened its doors in the fall of 1980.

It was established with the purpose of providing the actors with a place where they can acquire and test their acting skills without any pressure (presented by the producers, directors, editors, stage managers, lectors and the production, money, career, fame, ambition…).

In 1988 we expanded our activity to Croatia, Zagreb’s Actors Studio (Zagrebacki glumacki studio).

In 1989 we established the International summer seminar in Groznjan, Istria, Croatia.

Ed Kovens about us (http://edkovens.com/hail.htm):               

Janez Vajevec (the older of the brothers) is a Slovenian actor who was interested in the Actors studio approach to acting. He wrote to Elia Kazan and met him in 1970 in NY. Kazan proposed him to join the Lee Strasberg Institute.

Janez studied at the Institute from 1970 to 1979 with Domenic De Fazio, Geraldine Barron, Ed Mitchel, Ben Piazza, Al Morgenson and with Lee Strasberg in his master class. He studied also with Domenic De Fazio when he came to Paris. Later (1981) D. De Fazio came also to Gorizia (Italy) and in Ljubljana to see the work and lead workshops.

Andrej studied with Domenic De Fazio, Geraldine Barron, Marc Marno, Hedy Sontag and others in 1979. In 1980 Janez and Andrej started an Actors studio in Ljubljana and a few years later (1986) in Zagreb (Croatia).

The every-year Groznjan's method-acting workshop has been organized for more then fifteen years. (It was held also during the years when there was the war in Croatia!)

Tomi Janezic first met the method at the Academy from a famous Slovenian actor (at that time professor there) Boris Cavazza (father of Sebastijan!) in 1995 (Boris studied the method with Janez and later went to NY to see the Actors studio work as an observer etc.) and he started to work in Janez and Andrej's studio the same year.

Tomi:

“We started our own Studio (Studio for the Reasearch of Art of Acting) in 1996. (To continue with a few actors some actor's training which we started before that as students.) I first went to Groznjan's workshop in 1997 and studied intensively since then in both studios. I directed in Mladinsko theatre for the first time in 1997/98. In 1998I gathered a group of actors from this theatre with a few others (who I worked with before and were method trained) to start a creative process, which was based in the method."

"Actors who work in Mladinsko theatre studied mainly with me, but also with Janez and Andrej (I brought the whole group to both studios sessions during our rehearsals to work with them, the whole group went to Groznjan's workshops etc.). We studied with different teachers and worked on different acting approaches and techniques but we all learned the method mostly from Janez.”