Michael Chekhov's Technique Facilitates the Search for Inspired Acting
Now more than ever, the deciding factor in a successful audition or performance is the actor's ability to call upon focused inspiration at a moment's notice.
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How to Find Mental Focus in the Audition Room
You can do anything for three minutes. That's what I tell the actors in my audition workshops. Just like the focused athlete walking onto the field, the actor must achieve a certain mental mindset.
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Stop Focusing on Yourself and Start Telling Great Stories
As great acting teachers have pointed out, you are at your worst as an actor when your attention is on yourself.
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We all yearn for the other to be reliable and trustworthy yet exciting and unpredictable. Never boring. Our relationship with ourselves follows this same blueprint.
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Acting for Theater, Film, And Television are Dictated by Each Medium's Roots
Stage. Film. Television. For the actor, does it really matter? After all, great acting is great acting, whether it's at Manhattan Theatre Club, on the set of "Pirates of the Caribbean," or in front of a "Law & Order" camera, right?
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Auditions: Hate 'em; apparently can't have a career without 'em. They can put a man on the moon, but they can't figure out a more benign way to cast an actor, right?
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How Do You Handle It When You Disagree With Your Director?
At any time, actors can find themselves disagreeing with the director's requirements, for any number of reasons. What do you do in such a situation?
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Acting is About Making Great Choices
The following is an excerpt from "Acting With Impact: Power Tools to Ignite the Actor's Performance."
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Casting Insider Offers Advice on Nailing Your Audition
Your audition begins the moment you walk into the audition room, not when you say your first line. You may give the reading of your life, but if you don't look the part, it won't go further.
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The best acting is generally externally subtle and nuanced. Yet along with all the wonderful performances I see regularly, I also see many in which the actors are doing too much of everything
