The Best Memorization Tool
Why sleeping on fully drilled lines is the fastest route to effortless recall, and the speed-run test that tells you...
Why sleeping on fully drilled lines is the fastest route to effortless recall, and the speed-run test that tells you...
A two and a half minute performance of Antony's funeral oration, and what its refrain, evidence and final pause ask of...
A checklist for getting your IMDb profile complete: contact info, photos, self-submitted credits, missing credit...
How to write an Instagram bio that says what you do, shows your personality and formats with line breaks and emojis.
Kate Winslet on letting preparation go, reading the source novel, holding focus on set and why you should never...
Six practical ways to point social media traffic at your actor website, plus what not to post to get it.
Philip Quast takes Javert's soliloquy apart line by line: the argument inside a lyric, and why he has to reach ahead of...
Karl Malden on what made Brando different: the full pause, being guided versus dragged, and the studio fight over...
A four minute talk on the one idea that dissolves acting's difficulties: once you are ready, there is no performance to...
Stella Adler on acting with your soul, choosing imagination over emotional memory, and playing action in the body...
Casting director turned image coach Sam Christensen on decoding the note "just be yourself," using the slate, and...
A casting director's case for why an actor should own a website even though it will never book a job by itself.
Four coaches who disagree with each other about memorizing, nerves and preparation, and the places they all land in the...
Henry Thomas booked Elliott on an improvised scene with no script. What the recording actually shows about playing one...
Objective and emotion as two separate tools, and a way to reach real intensity without mining your own life for it.
What a summer intensive gives you when you cannot commit two years to a conservatory.
A senior agent on what belongs on an actor's site, and the one contact detail to leave off it.
Marci Liroff on booking the room instead of the part, why the breakdown is cliff notes, and what she thinks of paid...
A casting director on the ways well trained actors lose the room before they have read a line.
Ken Davitian on booking Borat by convincing the room he had no business being there.
A producer on real timelines, and why a project going quiet for years is normal rather than a bad sign.
William Esper on deciding what kind of actor you want to be before you decide where to train, and where the American...
Larry Moss on attention, breath, script analysis, and the psychology that stops talented actors long before technique...
Six practical tricks for getting lines down, including two that have nothing to do with repetition.