by Michelle Meyrink | Feb 23, 2021 | Acting, Blog, Online Classes, Studio Classes
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 | 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 9, 2020 | Blog, Online Classes, Studio Classes, Supernaturally Shy
Acting is an art of expression. And though we don’t train to focus on feeling (as feeling is a result and not an action) the truth is, the deeper a person can experience feeling, the better the acting. But experiencing feeling is hard. When you feel, people can see...
