Professional Training + Professional Footage
A focused one-day acting and production experience in Danville, Kentucky. Train on camera, step into a scripted short film, and leave with real set experience plus professional footage for your reel.
Taught by Whit Whitman, with 150+ IMDb credits as producer/director. This is hands-on instruction, not a lecture.
Workshop fees are listed by role type. Dates are TBD unless noted.
A sarcastic retail employee finally snaps at their relentlessly cheerful boss about toxic positivity during the Christmas rush, only for the boss to reveal the new seasonal hire standing behind them: Santa himself.
Tone: The Office meets It's a Wonderful Life: fluorescent lighting, awkward silences, and grounded absurdity.
Burned-out store worker in their 20s-30s, quick-witted and blunt with sharp comedic timing.
Overly cheerful manager in their 30s-50s who believes a smile can fix supply-chain issues.
Two strangers at a laundromat spiral into a petty argument over a single Christmas sock, until Santa strolls in claiming it is his, uniting them in mutual disbelief and laughter.
Tone: Before Sunrise meets Love Actually inside a laundromat at 1 a.m.
Smart, defensive, and running late. Too sharp for their own good but secretly lonely.
Creative, messy, and charmingly unbothered. Uses humor to diffuse tension until emotions get real.
A weary mom finds her son's letter asking Santa to make Mom and Dad love each other again. When Santa knocks on the door, she has to admit love does not feel magical anymore.
Tone: The Holiday meets A Man Called Otto. Melancholy wrapped in warmth, with subtle magic.
Mid-30s to early 40s. Exhausted but sharp-witted, using sarcasm as armor while carrying a flicker of wonder.
A precocious kid writes to Santa to say, "I know you're not real, but I wish you were." That night, Santa shows up to talk about why pretending can still be powerful.
Tone: The Polar Express meets A Man Called Otto. Soft lighting, quiet pacing, and emotional honesty.
Age 8-12. Wise beyond their years, skeptical and yearning.
A caring, motherly parent waking her child for morning school.
A couple renting a charming Airbnb hears strange noises above them. When they investigate, they discover something impossible: their own shadows coming up the stairs.
Part of a new couple arriving in the final scene as the cycle resets. Friendly, unaware, and subtly reactive.
Part of a new couple arriving in the final scene as the cycle resets. Ideal for a brief presence and closing-image turn.
In the last hours of a zombie apocalypse survivor's life, bitten and bound to a chair, he pleads for one final mercy: to say goodbye to his 14-year-old daughter before he turns.
Practical and protective, the group's caretaker. She watches over Maya while holding the group's fragile sanity together.
After the fall of civilization, a lone survivor is joined by three others around a dying campfire. As they dream of rebuilding humanity, one man tells a story about Death itself, then reveals he was summoning it.
Calm, enigmatic, almost gentle until he is not. Transforms from storyteller to embodiment of the Reaper.
Resilient, charismatic, and darkly hopeful, masking fear with sensual bravado.
Pragmatic and world-weary. Built for survival, not imagination.
Cynical but tender beneath it. Protective, skeptical, and terrified too late.
These projects are kept here so actors can see the kind of material the workshop program produces.
A meticulous killer lures a woman back to his apartment, only to discover she is a predator far more dangerous than he is.
Genre: Neo-Noir Horror / Supernatural Thriller
Two desperate friends summon a demon for protection, only to discover their target is his wife and she is already on her way.
Genre: Horror / Supernatural Dark Comedy
Two teenage girls livestream the Bloody Mary challenge as a joke, until their viewers start seeing something the girls cannot.
Genre: Urban Legend Horror / Found Footage Psychological Thriller
A babysitter hears her best friend calling from the locked basement, convinced it is a prank, until all hell breaks loose.
Genre: Urban Legend Horror / Psychological Supernatural
A lonely night turns sinister when Sam is visited by two eerily polite children who refuse to leave unless he says yes.
Genre: Urban Legend Horror / Psychological Supernatural
For open roles, dates, workshop fees, age fit, and production questions, email Little Monsters and tell us which short you are interested in.