
5 Ways Your Students Can Earn Thespian Points Now
Help Your Students Earn Thespian Points with This Quick-Start Guide During the school year, your to-do list is long (and getting longer daily!), which can make coordinating opportunities for your
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Help Your Students Earn Thespian Points with This Quick-Start Guide During the school year, your to-do list is long (and getting longer daily!), which can make coordinating opportunities for your
It’s that time of year again – Arts in Education Week is back, running from September 10-16. Established by Congress in 2010, the program helps highlight the power of arts
This conversation style workshop, for all heritages, shares recent moves to diversify actor training curricula in high schools. Participants will leave with key take-aways from the field of “black acting
In this webinar, Acting Teacher Robyn Cohen (Artistic Director of The Cohen Acting Studio and Professional Actor), will explore with attendees the Meisner technique and its powerful foundations and fundamentals.
There’s what you want, and there’s what you really want By Jon Jory In January, we talked about tactics: the different ways you go about getting what you want. Now
The first of three articles on how to use the tools of acting By Bruce Miller When I began teaching acting twenty years ago, I was determined to make the
By Rena Cook How do you know the difference between the sound of a violin, a cello, and a standing bass? What is it about the quality of the sound
How to make yourself look good If you’re planning a career as an actor, auditions are going to be a fact of your professional life. Might as well get used
The second of three articles on how to use the tools of acting By Bruce Miller Actors and playwrights have more in common than one might think. Both are charged
By Judylee Vivier We inhale our first breath the moment we are born and embrace life; we exhale our last breath in the moment of death. Breathing is the source
An acting game that teaches lying for the stage By Bruce Miller Harold Clurman, the great director and theatre critic, once referred to good acting as “lies like truth.” He
Sam-I-am in acting class By Bruce Miller The students in my B.F.A. acting program spend hours every day for four years developing their craft. Yet I still find that many
About a hundred things to ask school representatives You have questions. So do we. The process of selecting a place to study theatre is a two-way street. The school wants
Strategies for using understudies By John D. Newman The auditorium of our high school was filled with a thousand sixth graders for a matinee performance of our 2003 production of Crazy
Helping your students build characters through observation By Peter King If your students are anything like mine, they are already masters at modeling. And why shouldn’t they be? They’ve been
Ten ways to tune your performance By Jon Jory I’ve been chatting with you about acting for several months now. Among other tools, we’ve discussed the action (some people call
Film acting basics By Nancy Bishop Actor training at the high school and college level has long been focused on theatre acting. Yet the vibrant images of film and television
In the world of the play, everyone counts By Michael Deahn One of theatre’s great truths is that no actor is an island, with the possible exception of Sir Ian