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I Don't Need an Acting Class — 254 episodes
The Scene Starts Before You Speak
Don't Talk Away Your Talent
It's Enough
More Kick Ass Choices
Kick Ass Choices
Trust Your Preparation
Slow The F••• Down
Simplify Your Choices
Living Off Your Partner
Talking Out a Preparation
Specificity • a Key
Getting to Depth
Before the First Line
The Human Being Behind the Character
Working on Text
The Partner and their Behavior
Making Active Choices
Living Off Your Partner
Empathy and Sympathy
Believe Your Choices
Character Traits and Actions
Actors Talk Acting
Working On A Monologue
The Actor's Personal Connection
Talking Out
Living off your Partner
What to work on
Seeing What's Not There
Talking Out Revisited
The Technique Works!
Building a Character
Connecting Through Specifics
Fighting Clichés through Specificity and Events
An Encyclopedic Possibility of Choices
Your choices must feed the text
Everything is Something
There is no shortcut to learning to act
Impulse instead of Action
The Dreaded Vocabulary of Acting
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Bonus Video Ep: Let It Happen
Why Your Acting Choices Must Feed the Material
Filling The Choice
Playing Characters Beyond Your Experience
What Worked and What Didn't
Casting Directors Need to See This
Announcement!
What is Personalizing?
Plays Are Difficult
Bonus Ep: What Separates the Good from the Great
Bonus Ep: The Imaginary Vacation
Season 7 is Wrapped!
Avoid Boring Yourself to Death
What Does That Mean
A Tear in the Curtain
Everything Can Be Magical
Your Attitude Towards Your Partner
The Acting Lie Detector
Milton à Marseille
Being Active Always
I Have (Another Round of) Notes
I Have Notes: All My Sons
Looking for A Revelation
Robot Drama
Wandering with The Rainmaker
The Structure of Musicals
You Can’t Take You Out of It
Weird Actor Things
Being a Pleasure to Work With
Ordinary People (In Extraordinary Circumstances)
Milton The Mechanic
The Nature of Modern Theater: An Analysis of Loose Ends
Don't Say It Unless You've Built It
What Makes A Person
Enlighten The Audience
Bonus Video Ep: How We Talk About Our Pain
Bonus Content for The Price of a Latee!
There Is No One Secret to Acting
Upcoming Spring Classes!
Trusting Your Creative Impulses
VIDEO: Mark Ruffalo Goes Rogue
Mark Ruffalo Goes Rogue
What Acting Is and Isn't
Telling Someone Else’s Story
Observing The Art of Seduction
The Sin We Commit Without Knowing It
Think Like an Actor
Be Outstanding
Active Relaxation
Playing Witch-Twins on American Horror Story
Bonus Video Episode: Working Slowly
The Given Circumstances Are Everything
Making the Inactive Active
Putting In Your Own Words
Connecting with The Character’s POV
Bonus Video: Milton on Meisner
Bonus Episode: One Line of Dialogue
Improvising Your Character’s POV
Your Own Way of Working
Creating The “Other”
All You Need for TV
Acting Is Human Logic
Getting Hired
Trust Your Homework
We Have Tools
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Trailer: I Don't Need an Acting Class
Bonus Episode: Don't Rely On Your Voice
Pacing Notes Are Dangerous
Bonus Episode: The Struggle Is The Play
Conversation with Sharon Carnicke
26 Different Kinds of Films
Instinct is Developed
Your Character's Ethics
A Scene Outside the Play
We Want to Hear from You!
Living Off of Images
The Plot Is Not The Problem
A Police Procedural Audition
Active Listening
The Character Is Not You
The Actor’s Contribution
What Are We Saying With This?
What Would You Do If You Had the Part?
Introducing...Bonus Content for Subscribers!
Exploring the Inner Conflict
Am I Doing This Right?
Suddenly Strindberg!
The "Why" That Turns The Dial
What We Need to Get Where We’re Going
Experiencing the Research
The More You Know
Choices That Free You
Margo Martindale: "Make a Stab at It"
Character Colors Prevent Cliché
Some Elements of Character
We Are Someplace
The Loss of Meaning
Find Your Life Fascinating
How Not to Marry a Performance
How Objectives Can Cripple You
The Ability to See
Understanding The Playwright’s Struggle
Be Believable AND Interesting
Technique is The Antidote to Panic
Pt. 2: Let the Play Tell You What to Work On
Pt. 1: Let the Play Tell You What to Work On
What Do I Need For This Audition?
Revelations on Acting
A Small Favor
Thank You for a Great Season 4!
When Your Scene Partner Sucks
A Private Coaching
An Introduction to Tennessee Williams, Pt. 2
An Introduction to Tennessee Williams, Pt. 1
Realism and The American Play
To Remember About Script Analysis
Pt. 2: ABCs of Audition Prep
Pt. 1: ABCs of Audition Prep
Always Come from Somewhere
Building the Past
Not Defining a Character Exclusively
The Time It Takes
The Legacy of Largeness
Translating an Effect Direction
Diving Into The Time Period
Interpreting the Play
No, But What's Really Going On?
Pt. 2: So Much More Than Ourselves
Pt. 1: So Much More Than Ourselves
*Coming Soon*
Thank You for a Great Season
The Idea as a Tool
Permission to Rehearse
When Your Choices Stop Feeding You
Stealing from the People That Interest Us
Real Life Vs. Theater
Exploration & Gestation
Finding Words That Work For You
What Kind of Person Would Do That?
The Joy of Acting
Judging The Characters We Play
The Ability to Visualize
Thoughts on Blocking
Ways to Raise the Stakes
Can You Play Two Actions at Once?
Knowing When It’s Not Working
Working On A Character Trait
Take Yourself out of the Mix
What Makes a Good Choice
Soul Problem Vs. Plot Problem
Playing a Part You Know S*** About
How to Talk Out
Where Our Research Should Lead Us
The Accurate Conductor
The Shorthand of Emotions
This is the Scene Where…
Building the Place in the Age of Zoom
Getting to Know You
Big Ideas That Are Part of Us
What Cloud Am I Under?
Interview Your Character (Like Oprah)
How Is This Character Different From Me?
What’s Going On?
Show Them What They’re Looking For
Working Slowly
Falling Back on “Performing”
Trial and Error
The Action Changes
How Do I Know If It’s a Good Choice?
The Impulse to Begin
What Am I Trying to Say?
How Time Period Influences Character
Be a Snob About Your Process
A Return to Rasbor
Observing Human Behavior
Have Relationship with Everything
Staying in the Play
The 2 Whys
The Educated Imagination
Know Where You’re Going
Going There, Wherever There Is
The Past in the Present and the Past
Greasing the Gears
Events
Acting as an Artform
The Method is a Culture
Coming Soon: Season 2
Finding What's Actable
Putting It Together
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
The Pitfall of Trying to Recreate a Performance
Acting is Hard
Play the Cause, Not the Effect
More Is More
Everything is Something
Assume Nothing
Size Matters
What's the Big Idea?
But It’s All A Lie!
But It’s Such a Cool Choice!
2+2= 4ish
Zadacha
Tomatoes, Cucumbers & Toilet Paper
A Sequence of Thoughts, Not a Cluster of Words
Dear Milton, Please Help Me
Building a Believable Backstory
I Relate to Her
A Brief History of Acting
Talk It Out
Deadly, Deadly Facts
The Biggest Sin
Who Needs Technique?