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Becoming Effortless

Effort. Webster’s defines effort as “work done by the mind or body: energy used to do something.” I spend more time than you can imagine thinking about, analyzing, and trying to minimize effort required by a body to achieve anything – including the effort required to do nothing. My senses...

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March 1, 2016

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Rethinking The Actor’s Instrument: It Shouldn’t Hurt

We are not doing a great job of teaching our actors to care for their instruments properly. This is clear to me when I read (regularly) about an actor in a particularly difficult physical role answering questions with an attitude of “of course my back hurts every day,” “I have...

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August 24, 2015
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#2amt / academia / actor training / actors / classical theatre / development / dramaturgy / education

The Return of Puppet Hamlet!

I would wager that, when faced with a show you don’t know, you do something similar to the math I do. You cobble together the basic geometry of the show from the elements you do know. In the spring of 2014 I had some of that math to do… The central...

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March 4, 2015
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Managing Audition Anxiety: Tangible Practices

Actors are not alone in needing to manage nerves, but compared to most professions, yours is unique in terms of how frequently you are placed in nerve inducing situations in order to get the job. Think of the engineers, nurses, teachers, etc. you know, and then of the frequency they...

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February 17, 2015
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The Show Must Go On: Working When Sick

The 2014-15 theatre season is underway, causing me, desperately, to try not to fret over photos of strangers in first table reads as they begin to train their instruments to say those words (repetitively) throughout the rehearsal process and within eight shows a week (plus student matinees). I see actors...

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October 30, 2014

actor training / movement / social media / storytelling / well being

Technology and The Actor’s Instrument: Part Two

SOLVING THE PROBLEM AND REPAIRING THE DAMAGE As a Pilates teacher/movement consultant who specializes in how clients move/behave within their own environments, I spend a lot of time out of my studio space needing to be connected to clients via text, email, and social media. I use my phone and...

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October 10, 2014

actor training / movement / well being

Technology and The Actor’s Instrument: Part One

IDENTIFYING THE ISSUE AND ADDRESSING THE REPERCUSSIONS What is required of your body to do your job? As an actor, specifically a stage actor, the better question is what isn’t required of your body to do your job? I study the physical impact of specific careers on the bodies practicing...

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October 2, 2014

Becoming Effortless

Rethinking The Actor’s Instrument: It Shouldn’t Hurt

The Return of Puppet Hamlet!

Managing Audition Anxiety: Tangible Practices

The Show Must Go On: Working When Sick

Technology and The Actor’s Instrument: Part One

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