by Michelle Meyrink | Feb 23, 2021 | Acting, Blog
An actor needs an audience. If an actor doesn’t have an audience, then the camera must replace that void. The audience, or the camera, provides a formality, a structure, that gives the actor permission to leave the area of “comfortable and casual.” It’s the formality...
by Michelle Meyrink | Feb 14, 2021 | Acting, Actorium, Blog, Foundations, Online Classes
Foundations class is the heart of Actorium’s training. In this class we use the term: the stake of truth. Truth because, to the degree that you are able to work authentically as yourself, to that same degree you will be able to work authentically in your acting. Not...
by Michelle Meyrink | Jan 12, 2021 | Acting, Blog, Online Classes, Super Task
When you act, you must have a fire in your gut. It’s hidden. It’s far below the surface, but it is always there. A fire. You must sit with the burn. You must stand with the burn. You must speak with the burn. You must listen with the burn. Whether it is comedy or...
by Michelle Meyrink | Dec 24, 2020 | Acting, Blog, Online Classes
I’m very ambivalent about drama teachers and the classes that people go to. I think people’s instincts are crushed by bad drama teaching. I’ve watched it happen…It’s so often that the people who are actually the best are the ones who are thrown out of drama...
by Michelle Meyrink | Dec 16, 2020 | Acting, Blog, Dialogue, Foundations, Online Classes, Studio Classes
We practice speaking and listening. We don’t practice conversing. We practice nothing else but speaking and listening. Nothing else but that simple back and forth of communication. It is a conversation with no subject. But the first thing that happens when two people...
by Michelle Meyrink | Dec 4, 2020 | Acting, Blog
The ability to find humour in a script is easily one of the most important skills an actor can have. It’s humour that differentiates the maudlin from the deeply beautiful. It’s humour that ends the self indulgent drama and gives us the freedom of realism. And it’s...
