Your Love (for Acting) is the Key
In class this week we got into a really great discussion about acting and how to really get yourself motivated. It all stems from love. Here’s the video, watch it […]
Your Love (for Acting) is the Key Read More »
Determination
Getting Your Acting Goals!
#TechniqueTuesdaySetting the Stage for Success: A Guide to Effective Goal Setting for Actors Welcome to 2024! It’s January and if you haven’t made your New Year’s Resolutions—there’s no time like
Getting Your Acting Goals! Read More »
Romeo & Romeo
Romeo & Romeo—What It Really Takes To Be A Good Actor Last month I got to attend the Utah Shakespeare Festival. In fact I went several times. Living in Salt
You ARE an actor
If you feel the urge to act take it seriously. It means you are meant to act. That you are an actor. And that urge will never go away. I
What skills are in your basket
What Skills Are in Your Basket? Let’s take a minute to talk about what those skills might be and more importantly which of those are totally accessible to you right
What skills are in your basket Read More »
Dealing with No
The acting industry can be a roller-coaster. The ups are so exhilarating and the downs can be super hard to deal with, heartbreaking even. AND as actors we’re super sensitive
Dame Judi Dench
What I really love about Judi Dench is that she didn’t become the icon that she is now, until she was older. She had an early interest in the theatre
Bette Davis
Bette Davis was one of the most popular and prolific actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age. If anyone ever tells you you’ve got her eyes, that’s a huge compliment! Getting her start on Broadway when she was 22, she moved to Hollywood where she did films until she was in her mid 70’s. She was the first person to be nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning two of them. She was known for playing sardonic, intelligent, passionate women and was a bit of a spitfire herself. Do you know she even auditioned to play Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind?
Don’t Want to Look Like an Amateur?
Do you hold yourself back with your acting career because you’re afraid of being wrong or that you’ll make yourself look like an amateur?
That’s a common condition for a lot of actors, in my experience. Even ones who are “established”. But why do we do that? Hold back and don’t try to get an agent or better agent? Stay stuck in our 9 to 5 getting more hopeless by the day? Go weeks or even months without letting those wild horses of our acting drive out to tear up the fields?
Don’t Want to Look Like an Amateur? Read More »
Creating Traction As An Actor!
How does an ice climber feel a the bottom of a frozen waterfall? Daunted, perhaps? Maybe, but once they clamp on those crampons, they know they’re going to have added traction to get to the top. Steel-toothed feet, how could that not give you confidence?
Well, if you’re feeling like where you want to go with your acting is a huge, slippery, wall of ice and you just can’t seem to figure out how to climb it—we just need to get you some steel-teeth for your feet.
But how?
First of all take heart, every actor feels daunted at times. Even famous actors. The best thing to do is start where you are. And then do what you love. Even if it’s for a smidge of time during your work-packed day.
Creating Traction As An Actor! Read More »