Samantha Sloyan on ‘Carrie,’ Mike Flanagan, Playing Unlikable Characters
Samantha Sloyan on playing Margaret White in Mike Flanagan's Carrie: the freedom of not being liked, drilling a...
Training Videos for Actors
61 videosChoosing a class or a school, what the main techniques actually differ on, and how to tell a good teacher from a well marketed one.
Boyd Holbrook & Hiam Abbass for ‘Atonement’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Boyd Holbrook and Hiam Abbass on an Iraq War drama based on real people: script analysis before research, dropping an...
Acting Masterclass with Sean Astin | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Sean Astin on what Patty Duke taught him on his first set, the training that made him commit to acting, and the...
Theo James and Kaya Scodelario for ‘The Gentlemen’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Theo James and Kaya Scodelario on finding a character in the sides, keeping a series surprising, and surviving new...
Labs, Retreats and Development Programs for Filmmakers | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Programmers from the Black List, the Sundance Institute, Stowe Story Labs and Anti-Gravity Academy explain how their...
Voices Behind the Narrative | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
A SAG-AFTRA Foundation panel of working narrators on being a character inside the story, hearing your own voice...
Léa Seydoux Career Retrospective | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Léa Seydoux on the auditions that failed, learning by watching directors, adapting to every filmmaker, and why her...
Kate Siegel
Kate Siegel on the random Thursday Hush was greenlit, her step by step monologue process, what letting go really means,...
Acting Tips: Actors Who Memorize This, Memorize Faster!
Why some actors are off book in ten minutes: they are not storing words, they are attaching words to a lifetime of...
? THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION - Acting Scene Performed by Cody Martin
A performed scene from The Shawshank Redemption between Andy and Red, useful as scene study material for the...
Acting Tips: How do I get more vulnerable?
A note nobody knows what to do with, and the specific question that turns it into something actionable.
Acting Tips: Sense Memory
The memory system you are already using without noticing, and the six questions that put a scene in your body instead...
Actor Confidence: Your Path to Authentic Performance #shorts
Confidence as something you build rather than something you have, and the one sentence that reframes it: competence...
The TRUTH About 'Overnight Success' in Acting #shorts
What is actually underneath a career that appears to happen all at once, from someone who taught the people it appeared...
Vocal Work for Actors | Why Your Voice Is Your Most Important Tool
The tool actors neglect most, and the specific things a voice class fixes: pitch, tension, projection, placement and...
Showing up as you. The power of authentic presence.
A talk on why trying to give a scene what you think it needs cuts out the only ingredient that makes it work, and three...
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...
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...
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...
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...