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...
Training Videos for Actors
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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...
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...
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...
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.
Physicality of an actor
Acting from the neck up is visible even in a close-up. How to build a body that reads as somebody else, and the...
We Recreated A Scene from Whiplash (Not My Tempo)
A scene study of the Whiplash confrontation recreated in an ad agency, and how its status, repetition and escalation...
VOICE EXERCISE FOR ACTORS 3
A 30-second breath and vowel exercise taught at RADA by Clifford Turner, with a way to make yourself keep doing it.
"Me Earl and the Dying Girl" - Actor Conspiracy Theories
A script breakdown done live with no Google and nothing but the sides. The method matters more than the scene: why...
"Tell Me Lies" - Actor Conspiracy Theories
A live breakdown of a two-hander interrogation: what a redaction means, why a scene break may not be a break, and how...
"Hollywood" - Rated R - Actor Conspiracy Theories Episode 3
A full script breakdown showing how to build character, period and stakes from nothing but the clues printed on the...
My Edited Video
A short two-person scene about a chance street reunion, a gifted lottery ticket and three million dollars that did not...
Using the 5 Love Languages for Acting
How to use Gary Chapman's five love languages to explain a character's emotional leaps when the usual scene prep...
Memorizing lines for actors the easy way. Introducing Go Offbook
A walkthrough of Go Offbook, a free tool that turns a pasted script into color-coded flashcards with audio for the...
Do You NEED Acting School to be an Actor? | How to Act
Working actors in LA and New York answer whether you need acting school, and name the specific classes and lessons that...
HOW TO BE A BETTER ACTOR
John Windsor-Cunningham on the one habit that makes acting interesting: working out what every line means underneath...
Actor's Audition Advantage Video Series
Aaron Marcus, a working actor with over 1,200 bookings, on why untrained auditioning stalls a career and which audition...
[CONTENT] A04 - Brandon Ellis - Broadway (Success Summit 2013)
Broadway actor Brandon Ellis breaks down the audition rounds, the prep, the rehearsal schedule and how a show feeds...
[CONTENT] B03 - Mae Ross - Child Acting & Modeling (Success Summit 2013)
Mae Ross of 3-2-1 Acting Studios on training child actors: confidence, slating, resumes, agent showcases and picking a...
All About... THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE!
What the Alexander Technique is, how releasing neck and shoulder tension changes a read, and where to find a certified...
Stop Writing on Your Script
Why highlighting and margin notes tie you to the page, and how to do the same beat work out loud instead.
How the mind of Heath Ledger created The Joker
How Heath Ledger refused to repeat himself, pursued the Joker directly, and built the character in six weeks of...