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
The Human Being Behind the Character
Continuing work on the Frank Gilroy play, The Subject Was Roses, this expert from Milton's in-person class begins to explore the road in to building a character with more depth.
16 Jun 16min
Working on Text
Working on a play begins to give actors the foundation of working on any text they get. These are excerpts from my Script Analysis class at The Actor Lab in New York.
12 Jun 12min
The Partner and their Behavior
We're combining two exercises in this class. (1) Seeing someone 'on the street' and being able to make decisions about who they are, based on their behavio and (2) building an attitude towards them.
26 Mai 14min
