So yesterday I spent a lovely afternoon visiting my teacher, Robert Neff Williams. He was feeling good and seemed stronger than when I attended his birthday party in March. We talked about many things including his dear wife, Ruth, passing on a few months ago. I told him about an actor calling me this week who wanted to work on …
Interviewing for New Voice and Speech Class
This week I started interviewing for my private Voice and Speech classes. The classes start in October and in addition to the voice and speech work, they include text work (all kinds of texts – from commercial copy to classical material). The Advanced classes combine all of these tools while the actors are working on Shakespeare’s texts. It is very …
Celebrating Victor Pappas
The amazing Victor Pappas, Associate Chair of NYU’s Graduate Acting program is retiring. We had a fantastic party for him on Tuesday night. The speeches from the alums, the faculty, and his friends were wonderful and the anecdotes reminded us of how much he means to everyone. In my speech, I mentioned some of the reasons I love him. One …
Tech/Dress “Timon of Athens”
As I was waiting for the final run of “Timon of Athens” at the Public Theater 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. I’m doing what I love …
New Beginnings
I was thinking about new beginnings a few days ago. It’s because it’s September and September makes me think of going back to school. I always had a new notebook and pencil box for that first day. I was very excited about seeing friends that I had not seen all summer. Had they changed? Was my best friend going to …