What That Feel Like???

While your other four senses are site specific (eyes, ears, mouth, nose) located on particular parts of your body, your sense of touch can be found all over your skin. A huge part of our brain is devoted to perceiving the world around us through our sense of touch. In her book, Skin, A Natural History, Nina Jablanski explains that TOUCH is known as the mother of all senses.  “Primates use it to patch things up after a dispute, and our levels of stress decline tremendously... Read More

What You Need to Know about Being a (Paid) Actor

or You Can Make It Even Though You’re Black My name is Malcolm Barrett, and I’ve been in an actor’s union since I was 18 starting with Equity, the one for theatre. I got this by auditioning for an Equity play the summer after my highschool year. I did community and local theatre while attending Tisch at NYU. I left school 3 times. Once to do a 6 month tour of “W;t”. Once because my scholarship ran out. And once for good to move to LA and do a TV show called... Read More

Get down on the ground!

Why don’t you just roll around on the floor for a bit. Get. In. Touch. …with yourself. get your mind out of the gutter for a second and think about what it was like to take your first steps. To stick you fingers in the mud to grab that toad. The wonder! the excitement. For a very short time in our lives we are on the floor discovering. We learn to walk and then it’s over. We live in a Vertical world. Get in touch with your horizontal world. Get yourself on... Read More

Touché

This week is all about touch! The senses! Check out these videos on touch, and be…  Read More

Kissing Matthew Mcconaughey

This girl was auditioning for a part with Matthew Mcconaughey.  He was at the audition.  There was a moment in the script where the two characters  had to kiss.  The moment came, and with no warning, he does his thing.  Scene ends, they say thank you, she walks out stunned as the next girl comes in… What do non-Matthew Mcconaugheys do at auditions in situations like that.  Where you have a script and the action reads: “They kiss”.  Or better yet: “Mike... Read More