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SQUIRCULAR™: An Actor's Tale BLOG
Summer Hill Seven
Actor - Attorney - Author
My philosophy of acting and thus life has transcended anything that resembles philosophy. It is now about what I do and not merely what I think. I experience happiness with a smile. I experience thought with a word. I experience life with action.
As a child, Summer Hill Seven studied and taught from the Bible and Quran. He became a 5%er and later a youth Imam with the American Muslim Mission. At Richard Stockton College he served as the first African-American student body president and first two-term president. At Princeton University and the New York University School of Law he emerged as a national student leader in the same year that President Obama became the editor of the Harvard Law Review. After leading a protest & take over of the dean’s office at the NYU School of Law and establishing the Nelson Mandela Scholarship for the National Black Law Students Association, Seven transcended the paradigms provided by the American political system in pursuit of a more powerful vehicle to provoke social change. He found acting. He found theater. Poemedy found him.
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ON ACTING⁉️
On Acting By Summer Hill Seven We have mostly agreed that film acting is very different from stage acting. We spend most of our time telling students of acting how they must learn different skills, methods and exercises not only for different arenas also for different genres of writings. We do not do it in vain. We do it with good intentions. Like a parent seeking to protect a child, we caution our students about 'hot stoves' or looking 'both ways' before they cross the street. The result, often is another voice with a long list of 'don'ts' repeatedly running in the actor's mind during the playing. Some of us, first as actors, later as teachers, out of a need to survive, have focused on what is common to every type of acting in every time and place. Some have focused on breathing (Linklater), or alignment (Alexander), or emotional recall (Method), etc., as the common trait in all great acting. I call my method Poemedy. It too is inspired by a desire to actively pursue what is common to all acting. Poemedy is, at once, old and new. It does not replace, rather it seeks to advance the conversation. Poemedy does not seek to reiterate existing approaches, rather reinvigorate the conversation about approaching the sacred art of conjuring eternal human conditions. The approach can be simply stated as the relentless pursuit of that which is, at once, poetic and laugh inducing, in the script. This approach is as applicable and effective in Shakespeare on stage as it is in a web series script. In fact, we assert that film stardom is at the crossroad of poetic speaking and comedic timing. We welcome an opportunity to continue this conversation in person. After all, a new approach to discussing acting is only useful when applied to actual acting work. #acting www.poemedy.com
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