Projection Part 2: Essential Breathing
For the first follow up to my Projection series I want to focus on breathing as an actor. There’s a lot to go into when it comes to the mechanism of breath, but there are a few basics that I want to cover today. We’ve already talked about getting rid of your misconceptions about breathing […]
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Projection Part 1: Projection for the Actor
When I first started acting, projection was a problem I just couldn’t seem to master. It seemed the notes that I got the most were to “project!” and “be louder!” I hate notes like that because they did me no good as it was obvious that I didn’t know how to be any louder. Over […]
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Teach Yourself to Cry On Cue
Boy, oh boy, watching these statistics jump is fun. It turns out my most popular articles so far are those about monologues. Actors from all around the country are trying to find out How to Choose a Monologue, or what is the Secret to Monologue Performance. I hope you found what you were looking for. […]
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The Well-Loved Script
Isn’t it a wonderful feeling when you’ve just gotten cast in a show and you’ve got a brand new, unmarked script? It smells so nice, that pristine paper. No folds, no creases, no marks. It’s such a wonderful moment when you hold that unaltered piece of art in your hand and know that you are […]
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10 MORE Tips Every Actor Should Know
It’s time for 10 MORE Tips Every Actor Should Know. I like lists on Blogs, they help you get a lot of information in a short amount of time so I decided that it might be time for another one. So, without further ado about my Blog preferences, here are 10 MORE Tips:
10. Re-read Your […]
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Do it in One-One-Thousand
As actors, our jobs can effectively be boiled down to that of a means of conveyance, such as words on a page. Actors are a medium through which playwrights talk to an audience and therefore it is up to us to decide how the messages are communicated. We can all agree that how we communicate […]
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