Exactly how best to create rich characters has been much debated in the acting world for over a century. Strasberg believed that digging into one’s personal life was the key to building the character. He encouraged actors to internalize everything before it is externalized. The other prophets of the craft like Meisner, Adler, Lewis broke …

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We work with many varied exercises to help the actor get in touch with themselves, work deeply with inner conviction, and ultimately, validate that the source is there within them. In our work, we attempt to understand the acting blocks that stop the actor from opening up feelings and emotional responses that they would have …

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Great Actors reach out and touch us by what they give from themselves, their availability to themselves, to other actors in the scene, and the material. They fill us with feelings and responses because they have so generously and honestly connected and given of their own rich instrument. They accomplish this communication from a disciplined …

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I would like to illustrate what I have been advocating as a healthy way for an actor to go to their own well of experience in order to open up to character and script demand. I feel strongly that the Emotional Recall, “effective memory” or “sense memory”, first developed by Stanislavsky and reinterpreted by Strasberg, …

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