Inspiration for the Actor

ACTING, CRAFT OR ARTFORM? Some would debate whether acting is an art form or simply a craft. Acting is both a craft and an art form. This article reveals my thoughts on how when you approach acting with personal reverence and soul, it becomes an art form. THE ACTOR...

Passion is the soul’s language, all that aches, all that yearns and longs for, all that is deep and filled with the unresolved…this is the passionate soul. “Without acting I cannot breathe.” – Sir Laurence Olivier To touch this place of soul is to feel the ache, the...

If there is anything I have learned from my students it is this: Fear is the enemy of the creative spirit. Only a space held in love can set creativity free. Humiliation, domination, and interference are tools the egoic and insecure director or acting teacher resorts...

The word Inspiration means “to breathe in”. When we breathe in or take in with awareness, we become receptive and we connect to the body. We are ready to “act”. We will feel the impulse to act because we are connected to the body. We are inspired to act. With only the...

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” – Oscar Wilde THE ACTOR AS STORYTELLER The actor’s performance is a service the actor provides to...

ACTING FROM SOUL Soulful acting is inspired from something greater than the individual ego. It has the quality of being elusive. The audience senses something intangible yet so real. It captures, and has the power to draw an audience in. It is not interested in...

CHARACTER ACTING Lately there have been many questions and new ways of looking at character. I find that when actors hear the word character they begin to imagine something outside of themselves. The character is not outside of you. You contain everything inside of...

No-one in this entire world can deny the innocence of a child the spontaneous combustion of spirit the essence of beauty and soul in a child’s eyes the lack of self-consciousness the pure joy of being the ease to play the ease to hurt the ease to love Let us come back...