As a professional actor, one of the most challenging tasks is memorizing lines fast. Fear not, in this blog, we have compiled 20 clever memorization techniques. These tips will help you become a master at memorizing lines in no time. From rewriting your lines to utilizing the power of repetition, chunk memorization, and timing techniques, …
Eight vocal warm ups we use before rehearsal and before a show, lip trills to vocal fry, each one explained so you can do it in the car. Ten minutes, no equipment, and a note on what to do when you’re sick and still have to perform.
Confidence, teamwork, poise, conversation, empathy, memory, less stress and the ability to hear what a person is really saying. Eight things an acting class builds in people who never plan to act, from a studio that has trained doctors, lawyers and sales teams alongside working actors for twenty years.
My son booked nine commercials by the time he was ten. Here is how he prepares for an audition, in his words, what I’d tell his parents (which means me), and how a kid becomes an actor in the first place. No promises, one small test to run tonight.
The nerves never go away, and they shouldn’t. Bad nerves come from work you didn’t do; good nerves come from caring. How to tell them apart, how to change the word you use for the feeling, and the one time I jumped out of a plane.
Three rules for what to wear to an audition: something you feel confident in, a hint of the character without the costume, and the feeling the client is selling. Plus the time I gave my wife an acting coach’s answer when she wanted a husband’s.
There is one way to work as an actor, and it is to work as an actor, every day, before anyone is paying you. The 56 hours a week you already have, what to do with them, and why the audition you did last week is already over.
The question we hear most: what can I do at home so I stop getting the same note every week? Three things, every day. Work your diction on everyone you talk to, five minutes of breath, and find a physical life for your lines.
Improv usually needs a partner. This one doesn’t. Name five things about a topic, then make it harder: the logical move, the bold move using A to C, and the question that grounds any bold move: if this is true, what else is true?
A confident slate is a first impression, and the secret to giving one every time is thought life: replace the camera with someone you love, and for a darker character, change who you’re talking to. Two slates, one principle.
From the casting side of the table: never talk down the product, never make the other actors look bad, and take direction the first time. Three habits that end an audition before the read starts, and what to do instead.
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