Cynthia Bain booked her first guest star at fourteen and built a young career in features and movies of the week before turning to teaching, and her Studio City studio has specialized in young actors for roughly a quarter century. The organizing idea is playing age: classes serve performers who play 6 to 26, which includes adult actors who read young, a casting reality most schools ignore.
The core is scene study with a heavy script-analysis emphasis, warmed up with vocal work, improv, and audition technique, taught by Bain alongside advanced teacher Jillian Rose Reed and associate Audrey Whitby, both working actors who came up young themselves. Around the classes sit seasonal camp intensives that end with a Friday performance for invited industry, private audition coaching, and on-set coaching with proper child-performer permits; the studio is fully bonded.
Enrollment runs on waitlists, every class had one at verification, with a twelve-class minimum for new students, monthly billing, and free make-up classes. Tuition is not published and the site's schedule page was empty at verification, so email the studio for current sections and rates. Note the current address on Ventura Boulevard; older listings show a previous suite down the street.
Techniques taught
- Eclectic / multi-technique: Schools that draw on several lineages and fit the tools to the actor, not the reverse.
- Improv and sketch: Improvisation and sketch training: agreement, spontaneity, and ensemble play.
Class types
Enrollment and schedule
No formal audition published; free registration, placement via waitlist. Schedule: Ongoing monthly classes; join via waitlist; site schedule page currently displays no class times, contact enroll@cynthiabain.com. Duration: 12-class minimum commitment for new students; monthly billing.
Published pricing
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Instructors
- Cynthia Bain, Founder, Artistic Director, Master Class Teacher & Coach. Former young actor; career began at 14 on CHiPs
- Jillian Rose Reed, Advanced Teacher & Coach
- Audrey Whitby, Associate Teacher & Coach
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Sources and verification
- CBYAS homepage, accessed 2026-07-16
- CBYAS contact page, accessed 2026-07-16
- CBYAS classes page, accessed 2026-07-16
- Team #CBYAS, accessed 2026-07-16
- Summer Camp 2025 page, accessed 2026-07-16
- Cynthia Bain founder page, accessed 2026-07-16
Researched 2026-07-16, last verified 2026-07-16. Facts above come only from these sources. Anything we could not confirm is simply not shown. Report incorrect information or claim this listing if you represent the school.
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