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It was very exciting to see Edi Gathegi, my former NYU Grad Acting student as one of the stars of the new “Superman 2025″ movie. Annie Piper was also one of his teachers in Grad Acting and she was as thrilled as I was to see him in this film based on the characters from DC Comics. He plays a …
The lovely Frick Museum has re-opened after extensive renovations and Stacey, Jeremy and I visited. The last time I was at the Frick was when Stacey’s NYU Grad Acting class was taken there by Larry Maslon who was their “Now of Then” teacher.
I finished the Spring semester with my wonderful Second Year NYU Grad Acting students.
I had my final Techniques of Voice and Text Class with my NYU Third Year Students.
I saw NYU Grad acting alums Stacey Linnartz and Jeremy Rishe in Barry Kaplan’s new play “The Limits of Admiration”.
This last weekend, I saw a fascinating production called “The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler written by Jeff Whitty. Jeff was my student at NYU in the Graduate Acting program and I still remember the first play he wrote. It was for “Free Play” which is a Third Project where the students write, produce and act in their own productions. …
As I was waiting for the final run of “Timon of Athens” at the Public Theater (starring Richard Thomas as Timon) last night, I heard one of the actors ask Barry (Edelstein, the director) if he was tired. This was at 9:30p.m. and the cast and crew had been in technical rehearsal since noon. Barry said “No, I’m not tired. …
In the last two weeks, a number of actors have asked me to suggest a monologue for Shakespeare auditions that no one else does. I don’t think it exists. Are some monologues used more often than others? Definitely. But these plays are so famous and there are so many companies performing them that it is difficult to find something that …
I’ve been thinking about breathing for actors. Why is that something so basic and something that we all do naturally, seems to be so difficult? When I was explaining the principles of breathing for actors to my new class of private students last week, I was thinking how odd it was that I was explaining breathing. We’re alive so we …