Dog Days of August
Dog Daze of Summer—The Actor and Mental Health Do you remember how Romeo and Juliet starts? The Montagues and Capulets are roaming the streets of Verona. And it’s HOT. It’s …
Dog Daze of Summer—The Actor and Mental Health Do you remember how Romeo and Juliet starts? The Montagues and Capulets are roaming the streets of Verona. And it’s HOT. It’s …
The acting industry can be a roller-coaster. The ups are so exhilarating and the downs can be super hard to deal with, heartbreaking even. AND as actors we’re super sensitive …
As Actors it is easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of continuous auditions and, as a result, beat ourselves up when we dont book the jobs …
Actors and emotions – they go hand in hand. Every artist has an instrument – piano, paint and canvas, pen and paper. Art is supposed to make the observer FEEL. …
Do you ever feel totally shut down and unable to access your emotions when you’re acting? For a lot of actors that can be a big problem. Sometimes we are in the habit of disassociating from our feelings in life and that can boil over to our acting work. Sometimes we just get blocked from a particular feeling we need to delve into. Sometimes we’re just having a bad day, or week, or month and we feel as dry as the Sahara Desert emotionally.
So what do we do? Steven Spielberg ain’t gonna wait for our emotional tide to turn.