Interruption and Conflict
A short, practical method for breaking down an audition scene by finding where you were headed, what interrupted you...
Training Videos for Actors
61 videos
Should I Improvise in an Audition?
When adding your own lines to an audition helps and when it costs you the role, told through two recurring TV bookings.
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...
Damian Lewis as Antony in Julius Caesar: 'Friends, Romans, countrymen' | Shakespeare Solos
A two and a half minute performance of Antony's funeral oration, and what its refrain, evidence and final pause ask of...
Philip Quast gives a masterclass in singing Les Mis
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 Marlon Brando's greatness
Karl Malden on what made Brando different: the full pause, being guided versus dragged, and the studio fight over...
Stella Adler: Awake and Dream! from "American Masters"
Stella Adler on acting with your soul, choosing imagination over emotional memory, and playing action in the body...
FREE ACTING LESSON: Introduction to Acting
Objective and emotion as two separate tools, and a way to reach real intensity without mining your own life for it.
William Esper Studio: 6 Week Summer Intensive (Meisner based training)
What a summer intensive gives you when you cannot commit two years to a conservatory.
Casting Director Marci Liroff on Filmnut
Marci Liroff on booking the room instead of the part, why the breakdown is cliff notes, and what she thinks of paid...
Meisner Technique with William Esper - So You Want to be an Actor?
William Esper on deciding what kind of actor you want to be before you decide where to train, and where the American...
Acting Coach Larry Moss
Larry Moss on attention, breath, script analysis, and the psychology that stops talented actors long before technique...
How to Memorize Lines
Six practical tricks for getting lines down, including two that have nothing to do with repetition.