by Michelle Meyrink | Oct 17, 2022 | Acting, Blog, Online Classes
Learning to drop the plan and follow impulses is acquired learning. In the beginning, it feels like you’re throwing off a nice, warm blanket. You’ve worked through the scene, and you have it all planned out. You are lying all comfy in bed. And then, the blanket comes...
by Michelle Meyrink | Aug 26, 2022 | Acting, Blog, Online Classes
Our sensitivity is highly intelligent. We know those one thousand moments very well. But when we are dismissing our own experience, trying to prove ourselves to an outside force, sensitivity is an embarrassment. We want to discard it. We feel like we have to squash...
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...
