Trust Your Preparation
Actors often do wonderful preparation—and then abandon it the moment they begin speaking. This episode explores how to trust your work, stop explaining the plot, and let your preparation carry you nat...
4 Aug 18min
Slow The F••• Down
Rushing to make choices means we miss great acting opportunities. In this episode Milton works with one of his students who's going into rehearsals for a play soon.
29 Jul 18min
Simplify Your Choices
There's a tendency to complicate our choices by inventing elaborate plots, when simplifying to something specific will bring us to life. Also being more specific allows you to dig deeper.
21 Jul 14min
Living Off Your Partner
Building a solid relationship with the partner gives you grounding. Knowing who I'm talking to and what my attitude is towards them opens up what's going on in a scene.
14 Jul 11min
Talking Out a Preparation
In this video Milton works with Rashaud as he prepares a monologue from The Laramie Project.
12 Jul 7min
Specificity • a Key
Not just unexperienced facts can deaden our work as actors, the need to explain or report the facts can get in the way of our most creative work. Digging down specifically can help this problem.
7 Jul 12min
Getting to Depth
It's not just enough to be functional or accurate or good enough. There's a road in to our actor work that helps us find extraordinary choices and frees us up to do our best work.
30 Jun 16min
Before the First Line
If you think of the play as a continuation of what has already happened, it gives you a sense of how much work you have to do in order to earn the play. Excerpted from my New York class, we continue o...
23 Jun 17min
