How to Prepare your First Acting Class
So you have got a gig as an acting teacher! Great work friend. Proud of you. Welcome to the wonderful, rewarding, powerful and enthralling work of training actors. Finally, you get the chance to impart...
So you have got a gig as an acting teacher! Great work friend. Proud of you. Welcome to the wonderful, rewarding, powerful and enthralling work of training actors. Finally, you get the chance to impart...
Beats. One of the most common terms in acting training and also one of the most amorphic. It seems like every acting teacher you speak too will have a slightly different interpretation of what exactly...
The last few crazy years, have brought about many things, most of them unimaginable terrors, but a few of them have in a weird way – been kind of better than the way we used...
Becoming an actor is just like becoming a plumber, or any other trade for that matter. It consists of a desire to do it, training to do it, experience doing it and finally contacts and...
Quick! Grab the tea and terrible weather! It’s time to do a British accent and fast! For the purposes of this article, we’re going to be doing a Southern Standard British accent—a modernised version Received...
Acting is 90% preparation and 10% perspiration. Some actors make it look so easy, like they have just turned up and opened their mouths. But trust me when I say, for every flawless, easy performance...
In recent years, Canada has become a filmmaking mecca on par with only L.A. The sheer number of productions being made over there is staggering and the influx of actors from round the world to...
As a coach for the StageMilk Scene Club, every month I watch a lot of self-tapes. Probably somewhere in the region of 50 tapes a month, and it is incredibly frustrating to watch actors sabotage...
Want to spice up your showreel? Looking for great scenes to show off your comedy chops? Or stuck at home for extended periods and just want to have a good ol’ fashioned chuckle at some...
You don’t get a theatre named after you by chance. August Wilson was the first and only (to date) African-American playwright to get a theatre named after him. Born in Pittsburgh into a diverse community...