A Million Little Pieces

So you’ve found your honeycomb.  Your artistic residence.  No cave is built in a day, but you’ve got things inside.  Your inspirational quote, a painting by your favorite artist.  If you live in LA… maybe your vision board   So now what do you do?  Since we’re talking about impulses, a great place to start is plastique work by Jerzy Grotowski.  It’s time to get physical.  So in your room make sure you can move around comfortably.  Get your... Read More

The Magic Eye

Studying a script is somewhat like looking at one of those Magic Eye books. Remember those books back in the day? Remember taking one to school for show and tell and spending your entire recess staring at one of the pages trying to make out some unknown image that ended up being a goat or a shoe or a sunset? Your classmates huddled around you as you sat in the center holding the book. “Do you see it?” “I can’t see it.” “I think I see it.” “What is it again?... Read More

Countdown

I hear tell that booking an acting job is simply a numbers game. So what do your stats look like? Try something for me.  Start making a list.  Every audition you go on.  The date.  Who the casting director is.  The project.  Did you get a callback?  Did you book?  Throw some other variables into the pot. Start looking at what your trend is.  Which auditions you get good feedback from.  What your average for booking is? Yeah it could be a waste of time.  Negative Nancy... Read More

Searching in the Dark

An acting professor once described the artistic process in terms of knowledge. She drew a circle on a page. She said “everything we know is inside the circle. and it’s the artist’s job to step outside the circle to discover. Once a discovery is made, it’s the artist’s job to drag that discovery back into the circle and as a result, the circle expands.” You’re out there trying to figure things out. Trying to understand what you’re... Read More

Keep Record

By now, hopefully you’ve tapped back into your Mojo and are exploring your impulses.  It’s time to start analyzing all those discoveries, so that later we can track change, and set new goals. Keeping an acting journal is a very important part of your process.  It’s one of the best ways to take your work to an even deeper level.  Recognizing and becoming aware of your own patterns is the starting point of change.  It  might help you discover and rearrange... Read More