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themoment-before · 2 years

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Do you have any tips or advice for teaching one-on-one acting classes. I’ve always taught group classes, but I’ve been asked to coach one student privately and I’m not sure what to do. What do you do with your one-on-one students? The student is 12, if that helps.

For me, it usually depends on what the student is working on. My typical approach (for high-school aged and older) is to coach students on specific pieces, similar to how voice lessons work. For any given piece we’ll do character work, environment work, objective work, dialect work if needed, those sorts of things. I also have some warmups from grad school that I use, mainly visualization/grounding exercises to help students get out of their heads and into their bodies.

With younger students, they don’t always have a specific piece to work on, so I find it helpful to keep a sense of play in lessons and focus on exercises that help them understand how to connect with their emotions and their body. Sometimes we’ll take a small chunk of text and go through it with different emotions/states of being—“Say it like you’re angry! Say it like you’re confused! Say it like you’re cold!”—which helps them understand how these manifest physically/mentally in their own body. Helping younger students learn how to navigate and use their instrument is one of the best things you can teach them.

Another exercise I like for younger students is a visualization-based improv/movement exercise. I’ll give them a situation to imagine themselves in (ex. getting ready for school in the morning), and have them mime their way through it. I’ll guide them by asking questions along the way—“How cold is the water? Is your sweater scratchy or soft? How heavy is your backpack?”—to get them to flesh out the details of their environment. This helps them learn how to create a rich imagined world and make it feel real to them, reminding them that no detail is too small to make an impact.

I also watch for alignment issues with young students—posture issues, breathing too high, swaying, putting weight on one foot, etc.—because it’s easier to address them now than later on if they become ingrained. Building a grounded, healthy physicality for them now will help with their future training.

Since this is a student you’ve already been working with in a group setting, it’ll help that you’re familiar with their level of experience and general knowledge of acting. You’ll know which exercises they’re ready for, which may not work for them, and their openness to new techniques.

Always remember that the learning process goes both ways—they’re learning these new skills, and you’re learning how they learn. Working one-on-one is always more personalized than group theatre games or scene work, and sometimes your approach requires tweaking along the way based on how each student learns best.

You may find Viola Spolin’s book Theater Games for the Lone Actor helpful in your coaching; it’s full of acting exercises intended for one person to do on their own, though some exercises may need slight adaptation for use with younger students.

Best of luck on your coaching journey!

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davidaugust · 4 days

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Worked with an acting coaching client on a scene shooting soon, and among other things we played with knowing what your character is after while simultaneously not believing the other characters are being totally honest with what they're saying. Cool how perception and intention can interplay.

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macproject · 5 days

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jadeestebanestrada · 8 days

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Remembering showcases past

Melissa Weltner performs a monologue from Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in Jade Esteban Estrada's 1st Annual Actors Showcase. One of my favorite photos of that glorious night.

Next class: May 15 via Zoom. DM for details.

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mielabong · 1 month

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Working hard isn't enough

It's hard to accept that working hard isn't enough.

Especially if you're someone like me who makes every effort to be a hard worker or get better at working hard every day.

Sometimes hard work burns us out.

Hard work doesn't always speed up results or processes.

Hard work has no place in what isn't meant for us.

While we glorify hard work, sometimes it's not the smartest choice, because things like time or favor are outside of our control.

We can't brute force our way through things.

We have a limited capacity to how hard we work. We can't floor the gas for the entire duration of the road trip. What about the stop signs, crossing people or animals, sharp turns, downhill roads, or fog in our path?

We need stopovers, pacing, refueling, and sometimes a change of driver. We aren't objects like cars, yet these objects need stopovers, paging, and refueling. What more humans?

Where did we get the idea that hard work is king? That it's the best advice we can give anyone? That it's the only place we should pour all of our energy into?

Where is the space for us to advocate for nuance, tact, recovery, pacing, kindness, or prudence?

When weightlifters try to increase their weight, they don't start at the heaviest. They work their way there. They try to study the best way to lift and prep with less weight to get to the goal weight.

Likewise, we don't just work hardest right away or all the time. We have to look for ways to build skill so that the upcoming work is less difficult.

Sometimes, working hard, because it's exhausting, frustrates us, especially when we do not yet see results of our hard work. I know this from personal experience.

There's a very turbulent dissonance that takes place in the part of you that is so willing to give your all yet you're witnessing life events, people, or even your own mind or body not keeping up with you.

To work hard is only 1/10 of your our entire battle as actors. And I'm talking about a single battle, not even the whole war, the bigger picture.

Working hard has a time and place, but not everything in the process of pursuing our passion requires that much passion and fire. There are going to be glacial, frustrating, unaligned, downward-spiraling, entangled, (inhale), almost hypnotically listless moments that absolutely have no place for you to "work hard" out of.

Yes, work hard and go to as many auditions as you can, but if you don't work just as hard on ensuring rest, you'll fall into a pit of such poor, burnt out health (physical, mental, or existential) that one day, even just one audition, will hurt.

I speak from experience.

We have so much we have to do as actors! We need social skills, empathy, studiousness, and life experience. There's so much to do that we can't possibly barrel through everything. How do you even brute force through life experience? I mean...??

Because life is unfair by nature, we cannot brute force our way through the industry on hard work alone.

The ugly truth is, hard work is not sustainable.

The goal is not to become a hard working actor. The goal is to be an actor who knows how to work hard when needed.

Please remember that you are an actor, not a horse or some machine known for working hard. Working hard is not the only choice you have. Don't work so hard that you one day run out of the capacity to do so when you need it most.

Pace, dear actor.

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jeffblimchat · 2 months

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andrewwoodactingstudio · 3 months

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acingtheact · 3 months

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cyarskaren52 · 4 months

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They performed as if the rent was due and the home was about to face foreclosure

Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman, The Last of Us

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In the Amazon comedy’s fifth and final season, Borstein — who has already picked up two Emmys for her role as Midge’s indefatigable manager Susie Myerson — was tasked with playing her gruff, potty-mouthed alter ego through multiple decades amid some extreme emotional highs (Susie breaks Midge!) and lows (Susie breaks up with Midge!). And there was nary a false note in her work. In fact, the Susie-centric, Friars Club roast-themed sixth episode ranks among Maisel’s finest hours, in large part due to Borstein’s remarkably restrained comedic and, ultimately, heartbreaking performance. — Michael Ausiello

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Dominique Fishback, Swarm

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Devery Jacobs, Reservation Dogs

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Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face

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Zahn McClarnon, Dark Winds

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Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear

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Elizabeth Olsen, Love & Death

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Bel Powley, A Small Light

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The Morning Show alum was immediately lovable as Miep Gies, one of the people who risked everything to help Anne Frank and her family hide from the Nazis. Watching her take Miep from floundering young woman to steely member of the resistance was riveting, thanks to Powley’s choice of making Miep utterly unable to hide any of her emotions. Her turn in the finale, particularly when she blended devastating loss with a determined hopefulness as Miep comforted Otto Frank, was nothing short of a masterclass. — K.R.

Ramón Rodríguez, Will Trent

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You don’t deliver a freshman season that earns a rare average grade of “A+” from TVLine readers without having something really special going on. For ABC’s Will Trent, that added oomph came from a stellar cast led by Rodríguez. Readers of the Will Trent novels by Karin Slaughter may have needed a minute to process the TV series’ casting, but Rodríguez from go brilliantly encapsulated both the investigator’s insightful strengths and his haunted, personal weaknesses. The season finale, in which Rodríguez cycled Will through an array of intense feelings, cemented his perfection in the role. — M.W.M.

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Everyone brought their A-game to the final season of HBO’s riveting corporate drama — Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin could easily be on this list, as well — but Snook blew us away with her final episodes as scheming sister Shiv Roy. She was still quick with a cutting insult, but she also dove deep into Shiv’s true feelings as she faced unprecedented crises: first, the sudden death of her father Logan (with Snook submitting a career-best performance) and then the sad decline of her marriage to Tom. The worst of times for Shiv, though, brought out the very best in Snook. — D.N.

Patrick Stewart, Star Trek: Picard

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Meryl Streep, Only Murders in the Building

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Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, BEEF

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TVLINE'S YEAR IN REVIEW!

Performer of the Year: The 20 Finalists

By Team TVLine

December 13, 2023 7:00 am

Not even a months-long actors strike could stop the steady stream of phenomenal TV performances we were gifted in 2023.

All year long, Team TVLine has recognized the small screen’s most compelling work via our Performer of the Week column, honoring actors from broadcast, cable and streaming series as they brought their characters to dazzling, devastating life. But now, we’re tasked with naming a Performer of the Year â€” a decision that seems almost impossible, given the abundance of talent in the last 12 months.

To make the choice a bit easier, we’ve narrowed down the field to the 20 finalists below (named alphabetically), a list of nominees that doubles as a “ballot” of sorts. (Note: As is TVLine tradition, any contenders comprised of multiple co-stars â€” for example, BEEF‘s Ali Wong and Steven Yeun â€” compete as and will be considered one finalist.)

On Wednesday, Dec. 20, we will crown one of the nominees (and only one!) our 2023 Performer of the Year, dethroning the 2022 victor, Better Call Saul‘s Rhea Seehorn. And while our esteemed panel of judges wonâ€™t necessarily be swayed by the Comments section, weâ€™re itching to see if our 20 finalists line up with your favorite performances of the year.

Keep scrolling to see whoâ€™s in the running from this yearâ€™s shows, then drop a comment with your thoughts on who might be named Performer of the Year 2023.