The Artistry of Acting for Everyone
Finding Your Inspiration
To give yourself over to a role you must find your way to fall in love with the story. Find a way to reach the core of the playwright's inspiration. Find what it is that moved them to write the story. It will be through your investigation of the story that you’ll...
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Learning Agility and Fear of Failure
In order to learn, especially in something as complex as an art like acting, movies, stories, theatre - you have GOT TO learn how to fail. You've just got to. It feels so incredibly bad at first. It feels like failure means a dead end right? But it's the opposite. You...
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Facing Discomfort For The Sake of Authenticity
The poet frees the words. The painter frees the hand The singer frees the voice. The actor frees themselves. Acting and the actor are one thing. They are not separate. In acting you always train to free your limitations to authentic self expression. : If I...
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Acting and Process
When you create something new - whether it is as simple as changing a hairstyle, or as complex as designing the software to guide a rocket landing on Mars - there will be a period of time when you’re not sure which direction to take, when you’re not sure if it will...
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Individuality
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” Joseph Campbell. I know no better way to becoming a better actor than to becoming *more* yourself: dropping the persona, dropping the act that we present to the world and to ourselves. Although the development of...
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Embracing the Negative
Embracing the negative is an interesting process, and Michelle’s blog post detailing it out in 3 stages was super helpful at describing the journey I was stumbling through. It’s true. Of all the steps, step 3, portraying the flaws, is the hardest. I’ve been...
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