• Reading the Scene

    Updated: 2010-09-30 16:02:40
    I am constantly surprised by how few actors can actually read a scene.  I mean, they can literally go through the words, and they can tell me what happens.  But when it comes to turning the conversation into something they can act upon, the dialogue with them turns into a gloopy soup of generalisms and [...]

  • OCTOBER ARIZONA ACTING CLASSES 2010

    Updated: 2010-09-30 03:43:33
    OCTOBER ACTING CLASSES 2010 Only a few spaces remaining! Enrollment Line: 480-313-9901 Tuesday- Meisner Technique Starts October 5th, 2010 7pm - 9pm Wednesday- Improv Starts October 6th, 2010 7pm - 9pm Thursday- Sketch Comedy Starts October 7th, 2010   7pm - 9pm YOUTH CLASSES Saturday- Kids and Teens Commercial, Film and Improv Acting Starts October 9th, 2010 10am-12pm

  • Strasberg’s Notes: Still Not Convinced

    Updated: 2010-09-26 00:09:33
    In The Lee Strasberg Notes, Lola Cohen attempts to show us more of Strasberg, master of method. I was told recently by a method actor that if I read this book, I would know just how wrong I was about method acting. Having read everything published about or by Strasberg, I read this book vigorously, [...]

  • Winter’s Bone

    Updated: 2010-09-24 23:40:33
    I am not fond, nor do I make a practice of reviewing on this blog.  My role as a coach is to support, critique and develop the skills of the actor, not to tell you what I like and dislike with regard to art in content or form. Nonetheless, having spent the afternoon watching this [...]

  • Do not Waste It!

    Updated: 2010-09-19 19:35:19
    My wife and I recently visited my hometown on the occasion of my Mother’s 60th birthday, after the meal we went to my cousin’s house and sat talking with my uncle, a man who missed our wedding because he was fishing. He sat and talked about his engineering business, how he built it up with [...]

  • Actor Hits & Misses (Part 1)

    Updated: 2010-09-19 05:01:54
    Two industry voices. Both Jack Menashe, senior agent, President of Independent Artists Agency, and casting director, director Paul Russell are candid in their views about the do's & don't's about the do's and don't's in pictures, resumes, emails and marketing.

  • Within your own Character

    Updated: 2010-09-13 16:00:28
    From the airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka… You bring certain facets of your personality to every role you play, acting in the end is not becoming someone else but revealing, augmenting or hiding certain aspects of your own character. Your character leaks out of every performance. This is not to say that is necessarily recognizable [...]

  • Freaky? Or Fabulous? You Decide.

    Updated: 2010-09-12 05:01:51
    Either freaky or fabulous these actor headshots; it's your call. Your vote. Imagine you're the casting director, agent, director, or producer and receive what follows. What's your first impression?

  • Breaking with Tradition

    Updated: 2010-09-11 11:21:21
    The old ways, the traditional ways are the foundations on which we build. For this reason, we respect them as the building blocks of development but we do not cling to them like the ten commandments. When we make a break with tradition, when we move away from Stanislavski, when we declare that Strasberg is [...]

  • Dramatic Impact was Covered on the CBC

    Updated: 2010-09-07 18:38:24
    The next installment of “One Big Massive Retweet” will be posted by mid September. I’ll be talking about other theatre podcasts that I find inspirational. I can’t aplogize enough for not having posted anything in so long. I’m in the startup phase of my new promotions business, Often Seen New Media, Inc. Great news though for Dramatic [...]

  • Uncertainty

    Updated: 2010-09-07 16:30:56
    At times in our life, and our career we have moments of serious uncertainty. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our abilities and we often doubt our place in this crazy business called Show. If you feel this way, you are not alone. Artists of all kinds tend to experience the crisis of uncertainty from time [...]

  • The State of Play

    Updated: 2010-09-05 18:00:21
    I am afraid to admit that the standard of acting in my adopted country is very poor. The critics seem easy pleased by competent performances that do not go a scratch deep. There is no craft, and the schools and colleges of drama do little to develop a craft, just stick to ancient acting principles, [...]

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