Pt. 1: So Much More Than Ourselves

Pt. 1: So Much More Than Ourselves

Welcome back to the podcast and Happy New Year! Milton begins Season 4 of I Don’t Need an Acting Class responding to the misconception that as actors, “all we have is ourselves”— a statement that sounds logical but couldn’t be further from the truth. Only using ourselves as actors can limit us and lock us into choices that come out of our feelings, judgements and perspectives on our characters. In the end, your work is a result of multiple factors: you and your choices, your knowledge of the play, and the research you’ve done to understand the circumstances, the world of the play, time period, your character, the big idea of the play and how your character fits into that. But throughout this process, you must be able to discern what is you and what is the character. Have a question for Milton? Email him at questionsformilton@gmail.com

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Tomatoes, Cucumbers & Toilet Paper

Tomatoes, Cucumbers & Toilet Paper

We've all been there. You look at your script and see something that resembles a list. What do most actors do? They act it as a list and by doing so, sound like they're running down a dull inventory o...

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A Sequence of Thoughts, Not a Cluster of Words

A Sequence of Thoughts, Not a Cluster of Words

WANT MORE? Become a subscriber for bonus content! ⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/actingclass/subscribe⁠⁠⁠ When Milton recently asked Gustavo Dudamel, the conductor of the Los Angeles Philh...

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Dear Milton, Please Help Me

In the Summer of 1980 during the run of a regional production of Boys in the Band, Milton wrote a letter to Stella Adler asking for her guidance. She responded: “The actor in you is beginning to feel ...

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Building a Believable Backstory

Building a Believable Backstory

Whether you’re auditioning for a pilot or in rehearsal for a Clifford Odets play, our jobs as actors is to launch, imaginatively, into the world of the piece, and open ourselves to its influence. But ...

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I Relate to Her

I Relate to Her

As actors, most of us have had the experience of closely identifying with a character we’re playing. In this episode, Milton talks about the mistake so many of us make when we feel like we relate to a...

6 Apr 202011min

A Brief History of Acting

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How did we end up studying acting in the first place? In this episode, Milton puts his teaching in context by giving us a brief history of modern acting technique; from 19th-century realism to Konstan...

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Talk It Out

Talk It Out

WANT MORE? Become a subscriber for bonus content!⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/actingclass/subscribe⁠⁠⁠In this episode, Milton talks about how writing and thinking are great ways for acto...

23 Mars 202021min

Deadly, Deadly Facts

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WANT MORE? Become a subscriber for bonus content!⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/actingclass/subscribe⁠⁠⁠Contrary to popular belief, just because you can answer “who, what, why, where, when...

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