Acting Tip: It's Not About The Lines
The dictionary definition of rote is mechanical repetition with little intelligence, which is a strange place to start...
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Why every actor should take an Improv class
Why improv is training for listening, adapting and confidence, and how it exposes the places your character work is...
Acting Tip: Commitment Issues
Another result-oriented note with no instructions attached. The fix is in the intention, and there is a four-part test...
Listening for actors
The note given more than any other in class, why anticipation is the thing ruining scenes, and how to practice a skill...
January Reset
Craft goals instead of result goals, a weekly self tape, and the cheap ways to fill yourself up creatively when nothing...
ENVY
Why the other actors in the hallway are not your competition, judged against a standard rather than each other, and...
Acting Tip: Take note and deliver
Be specific. Commit. Give me more subtext. What those notes actually mean, and why saying sure and guessing is the...
Do acting showcases work?
Why a coach who could sell showcases does not run them, who they still work for, and what to do with the money and the...
Shooting on Location: A Survival Guide for Actors
The part nobody mentions about location work is the loneliness. How to set up the housing, the visits and the routine...
Cosmetic Surgery For Actors
You do not need it, you are allowed to want it, and there are working reasons a face that moves is worth more than a...
Acting Tips: Auditions are Incubators of Your Fears
Fight, flight, freeze and fawn all show up in auditions. Which one is yours, why it is normal, and the four questions...
My Hollywood Family Story
A coach descended from one of Hollywood's great writer-directors on why she still started with nothing, and why nepo...
You Need To Fight For Your Audition
Most actors audition to avoid losing a job they do not have. What it looks like to go the other way, and where the line...
The Worst Actors That I've Worked With
Four types a coach dreads working with, what they have in common, and the preparation nobody ever sees that keeps...
Studio Party!
The character party exercise: work out what you get cast as, find a real person who is it, and learn to do one thing...
Does Hollywood share your values?
The full conversation on lines you will not cross: guns, nudity, kissing, swearing, and the difference between a value...
Acting Tips: Think the Character's Thoughts
The note is confusing until you work backward from the times it happened by itself. What was different, and how to make...
You're Never Too Good
Background, commercials, verticals, soaps and student films. Why the only good reason to decline is that you do not...
How we prepare actors for work
Why auditioning is not the job, what a technique foundation is for, and the mistake beginning actors make in the first...
How to stay creative between acting jobs
What to do with the empty stretches, cheaply, and why the skill you pick up for fun keeps turning into the thing that...
Don't move to LA for acting. Just join our online classes
You do not have to move yet. Why online class is now closer to the actual job than the room is, and what to build where...
How to nail your callback
The main instruction is to change nothing unless asked. What to do with a note, how to handle a long wait, and why...
Don't wait for Hollywood to tell you that you are an actor
Nobody arrives with a wand to make you an actor. What to do with the years before anyone hires you, and two examples of...
What’s it like being an on-set acting coach? And should you hire one? #actingcoach #acting #actors
What a coach actually does on a production, who hires them, and why the biggest names use one when nobody makes them.