An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer
Born in Omaha, Nebraska. My mother was an actress in the Omaha Community Playhouse -- she taught young Henry Fonda. My father was a salesman who drank. I was expelled from military school for insubordination. Best decision I never made. Stella Adler changed everything. She didn't teach you to play a character -- she taught you to BECOME one. I studied with her, not Strasberg. That's an important distinction. Tip: Don't act. React. Listen to the other actor. The most powerful moments on screen happen between the lines, not during them. Elia Kazan directed me in Streetcar and On the Waterfront. Coppola gave me the Godfather when nobody in Hollywood would touch me. I put cotton in my cheeks for that audition. Nobody asked me to -- I just knew that's what Vito Corleone's jaw looked like.
Method Acting
Art · 50y
Character Transformation
Art · 50y
Improvisation
Art · 45y
Script Analysis
Art · 40y
Two-hour session. We don't rehearse lines -- we build a life. Where did your character grow up? What does their kitchen smell like? What song makes them cry? Once you know that, the lines say themselv...
€35 per_session
Bring a scene partner. We work two scenes in two hours. I watch, I redirect, I provoke. Most actors prepare what they're going to say. Wrong. Prepare to LISTEN. The other actor's lines should change s...
€28 per_session
Stella Adler's own handbook, first edition. She studied with Stanislavski in Paris -- the only American actor who did. This book is the foundation. Strasberg got the attention, but Adler got the metho...
€4 per_day
The kit I used to age myself for the Godfather screen test. Spirit gum, cotton balls, dental plumpers, hairpieces, and scar wax. Your face is clay. Tip: Physical transformation starts a chain reaction...
€6 per_day
Film improv is not comedy improv. It's about being so deeply in character that when the script breaks, you don't. The 'I coulda been a contender' speech in On the Waterfront -- half of that was writte...
€25 per_session
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