Actorium
An Acting School Rooted In The Meisner Technique
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...
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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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Everybody
Michelle Meyrink+Our goal is authenticity in acting and in life. We welcome...
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Leaving the beauty pageant behind
Michelle Meyrink+When I first started auditioning, I remember I would walk in and I’d think “omg how am I ever going to get this? all the other actresses reading for it are so f&^%ing beautiful! How will I ever get something?” This was LA in the 80’s, and I don’t...
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Homework for Monologue Study
Michelle Meyrink+NOTES FROM ACTORIUM’S HOMEWORK FOR MONOLOGUE STUDY: Spend an hour a day sitting with your monologue ‘feeling’ it out. 1. Don’t rehearse it aloud. When you rehearse aloud you are nailing your coffin. You’re creating a dead performance. You...
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