Actorium
An Acting School Rooted In The Meisner Technique
Obstacles to the Super Objective
Michelle Meyrink+Character Development: Obstacles to the Super Objective When taking on a role, one of the first exercises is the identification of "the battle" that your character goes through. What's life without a battle right? When does it ever not happen? The first step then is...
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Clarifying Goals in Acting
Michelle Meyrink+The training that we do in scene study at Actorium is based on Meisner and Method techniques. The ultimate goal in this training is for the actor is to be living and responding freely in the moment. This is an important factor at every level. I judge an actor’s work...
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Stop Doing it Right
Michelle Meyrink+In the beginning, actors work very hard to do a scene, or play a role 'correctly'. They struggle to meet the demands of the script to the point where they follow it like an architect may follow a blueprint. They no longer allow themselves the freedom of natural...
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Outside the Lines
Michelle Meyrink+In order to be able to fulfill a role you must be able to extract a character from the script. What does extract a character from the script mean? It means you are able to play the character as a separate entity. You are able to separate the character from the story....
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Actorium’s Super Shy acting program
Michelle Meyrink+How could you have an Acting class for Super Shy people? Here's how... In a regular acting class, at the outset of training, our goal is to teach 'un-acting'. How can someone stop acting and bring their true, pure, honest self forward? How can someone unmask...
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Michelle Meyrink+In my initial training as an actor, like many of us, I had done nothing but performance based training until I encountered Peggy Feury at the Loft Studio. I remember my first day in scene study class. The first one up was Meg Tilly working with some guy on a...
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