Big Ideas That Are Part of Us
It’s ironic that in this present global, digital age where information travels at the speed of light, we feel so emotionally disconnected to what’s happening in our world, whether in our own country o...
18 Maj 202121min
What Cloud Am I Under?
Welcome to Season 3! Based on Stella Adler’s work with Stanislavsky, everything we do as actors comes out of the world of the play, or the given circumstances that the writer has given us. One way int...
11 Maj 202118min
Interview Your Character (Like Oprah)
WANT MORE? Become a subscriber for bonus content! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/actingclass/subscribe A great technique that we have at your disposal when building a character, is to i...
16 Mars 202124min
How Is This Character Different From Me?
Actors often ask: “how is this character like me?” But unless we know how the characters we play are different from us, it’s hard not to fall back on playing ourselves, or a variation thereof. Knowing...
9 Mars 202115min
What’s Going On?
One effective way to uncover your action in a scene is to ask: what is going on with him/her/them/you? Actions, as we refer to them in acting, are often misunderstood as “activity” or “plot.” The true...
2 Mars 202118min
Show Them What They’re Looking For
It’s important to realize how conditioned we are to quickly jump to a conclusion about a character when we read lines of dialogue. We will end up playing an uniterteresting cliché unless we slow down ...
23 Feb 202116min
Working Slowly
“Once you go to the script, all creative work stops” Milton says. It’s a provocative statement but it’s true if you consider how most actors jump straight to a performance or an intelligent rendering ...
16 Feb 202110min
Falling Back on “Performing”
WANT MORE? Become a subscriber for bonus content! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/actingclass/subscribe It’s something every actor can relate to: you walk in the room, onstage on in front of t...
9 Feb 202115min
