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I Don't Need an Acting Class — 240 episodes

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Title
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Working on Text

2

The Partner and their Behavior

3

Making Active Choices

4

Living Off Your Partner

5

Empathy and Sympathy

6

Believe Your Choices

7

Character Traits and Actions

8

Actors Talk Acting

9

Working On A Monologue

10

The Actor's Personal Connection

11

Talking Out

12

Living off your Partner

13

What to work on

14

Seeing What's Not There

15

Talking Out Revisited

16

The Technique Works!

17

Building a Character

18

Connecting Through Specifics

19

Fighting Clichés through Specificity and Events

20

An Encyclopedic Possibility of Choices

21

Your choices must feed the text

22

Everything is Something

23

There is no shortcut to learning to act

24

Impulse instead of Action

25

The Dreaded Vocabulary of Acting

26

NYC Classes Begin January 12th

27

NYC Classes Beginning October 27th!

28

Bonus Video Ep: Let It Happen

29

Why Your Acting Choices Must Feed the Material

30

Filling The Choice

31

Playing Characters Beyond Your Experience

32

What Worked and What Didn't

33

Casting Directors Need to See This

34

Announcement!

35

What is Personalizing?

36

Plays Are Difficult

37

Bonus Ep: What Separates the Good from the Great

38

Bonus Ep: The Imaginary Vacation

39

Season 7 is Wrapped!

40

Avoid Boring Yourself to Death

41

What Does That Mean

42

A Tear in the Curtain

43

Everything Can Be Magical

44

Your Attitude Towards Your Partner

45

The Acting Lie Detector

46

Milton à Marseille

47

Being Active Always

48

I Have (Another Round of) Notes

49

I Have Notes: All My Sons

50

Looking for A Revelation

51

Robot Drama

52

Wandering with The Rainmaker

53

The Structure of Musicals

54

You Can’t Take You Out of It

55

Weird Actor Things

56

Being a Pleasure to Work With

57

Ordinary People (In Extraordinary Circumstances)

58

Milton The Mechanic

59

The Nature of Modern Theater: An Analysis of Loose Ends

60

Don't Say It Unless You've Built It

61

What Makes A Person

62

Enlighten The Audience

63

Bonus Video Ep: How We Talk About Our Pain

64

Bonus Content for The Price of a Latee!

65

There Is No One Secret to Acting

66

Upcoming Spring Classes!

67

Trusting Your Creative Impulses

68

VIDEO: Mark Ruffalo Goes Rogue

69

Mark Ruffalo Goes Rogue

70

What Acting Is and Isn't

71

Telling Someone Else’s Story

72

Observing The Art of Seduction

73

The Sin We Commit Without Knowing It

74

Think Like an Actor

75

Be Outstanding

76

Active Relaxation

77

Playing Witch-Twins on American Horror Story

78

Bonus Video Episode: Working Slowly

79

The Given Circumstances Are Everything

80

Making the Inactive Active

81

Putting In Your Own Words

82

Connecting with The Character’s POV

83

Bonus Video: Milton on Meisner

84

Bonus Episode: One Line of Dialogue

85

Improvising Your Character’s POV

86

Your Own Way of Working

87

Creating The “Other”

88

All You Need for TV

89

Acting Is Human Logic

90

Getting Hired

91

Trust Your Homework

92

We Have Tools

93

Want to Study with Milton Justice? Register Now.

94

Trailer: I Don't Need an Acting Class

95

Bonus Episode: Don't Rely On Your Voice

96

Pacing Notes Are Dangerous

97

Bonus Episode: The Struggle Is The Play

98

Conversation with Sharon Carnicke

99

26 Different Kinds of Films

100

Instinct is Developed

101

Your Character's Ethics

102

A Scene Outside the Play

103

We Want to Hear from You!

104

Living Off of Images

105

The Plot Is Not The Problem

106

A Police Procedural Audition

107

Active Listening

108

The Character Is Not You

109

The Actor’s Contribution

110

What Are We Saying With This?

111

What Would You Do If You Had the Part?

112

Introducing...Bonus Content for Subscribers!

113

Exploring the Inner Conflict

114

Am I Doing This Right?

115

Suddenly Strindberg!

116

The "Why" That Turns The Dial

117

What We Need to Get Where We’re Going

118

Experiencing the Research

119

The More You Know

120

Choices That Free You

121

Margo Martindale: "Make a Stab at It"

122

Character Colors Prevent Cliché

123

Some Elements of Character

124

We Are Someplace

125

The Loss of Meaning

126

Find Your Life Fascinating

127

How Not to Marry a Performance

128

How Objectives Can Cripple You

129

The Ability to See

130

Understanding The Playwright’s Struggle

131

Be Believable AND Interesting

132

Technique is The Antidote to Panic

133

Pt. 2: Let the Play Tell You What to Work On

134

Pt. 1: Let the Play Tell You What to Work On

135

What Do I Need For This Audition?

136

Revelations on Acting

137

A Small Favor

138

Thank You for a Great Season 4!

139

When Your Scene Partner Sucks

140

A Private Coaching

141

An Introduction to Tennessee Williams, Pt. 2

142

An Introduction to Tennessee Williams, Pt. 1

143

Realism and The American Play

144

To Remember About Script Analysis

145

Pt. 2: ABCs of Audition Prep

146

Pt. 1: ABCs of Audition Prep

147

Always Come from Somewhere

148

Building the Past

149

Not Defining a Character Exclusively

150

The Time It Takes

151

The Legacy of Largeness

152

Translating an Effect Direction

153

Diving Into The Time Period

154

Interpreting the Play

155

No, But What's Really Going On?

156

Pt. 2: So Much More Than Ourselves

157

Pt. 1: So Much More Than Ourselves

158

*Coming Soon*

159

Thank You for a Great Season

160

The Idea as a Tool

161

Permission to Rehearse

162

When Your Choices Stop Feeding You

163

Stealing from the People That Interest Us

164

Real Life Vs. Theater

165

Exploration & Gestation

166

Finding Words That Work For You

167

What Kind of Person Would Do That?

168

The Joy of Acting

169

Judging The Characters We Play

170

The Ability to Visualize

171

Thoughts on Blocking

172

Ways to Raise the Stakes

173

Can You Play Two Actions at Once?

174

Knowing When It’s Not Working

175

Working On A Character Trait

176

Take Yourself out of the Mix

177

What Makes a Good Choice

178

Soul Problem Vs. Plot Problem

179

Playing a Part You Know S*** About

180

How to Talk Out

181

Where Our Research Should Lead Us

182

The Accurate Conductor

183

The Shorthand of Emotions

184

This is the Scene Where…

185

Building the Place in the Age of Zoom

186

Getting to Know You

187

Big Ideas That Are Part of Us

188

What Cloud Am I Under?

189

Interview Your Character (Like Oprah)

190

How Is This Character Different From Me?

191

What’s Going On?

192

Show Them What They’re Looking For

193

Working Slowly

194

Falling Back on “Performing”

195

Trial and Error

196

The Action Changes

197

How Do I Know If It’s a Good Choice?

198

The Impulse to Begin

199

What Am I Trying to Say?

200

How Time Period Influences Character

201

Be a Snob About Your Process

202

A Return to Rasbor

203

Observing Human Behavior

204

Have Relationship with Everything

205

Staying in the Play

206

The 2 Whys

207

The Educated Imagination

208

Know Where You’re Going

209

Going There, Wherever There Is

210

The Past in the Present and the Past

211

Greasing the Gears

212

Events

213

Acting as an Artform

214

The Method is a Culture

215

Coming Soon: Season 2

216

Finding What's Actable

217

Putting It Together

218

Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

219

The Pitfall of Trying to Recreate a Performance

220

Acting is Hard

221

Play the Cause, Not the Effect

222

More Is More

223

Everything is Something

224

Assume Nothing

225

Size Matters

226

What's the Big Idea?

227

But It’s All A Lie!

228

But It’s Such a Cool Choice!

229

2+2= 4ish

230

Zadacha

231

Tomatoes, Cucumbers & Toilet Paper

232

A Sequence of Thoughts, Not a Cluster of Words

233

Dear Milton, Please Help Me

234

Building a Believable Backstory

235

I Relate to Her

236

A Brief History of Acting

237

Talk It Out

238

Deadly, Deadly Facts

239

The Biggest Sin

240

Who Needs Technique?