Category: Performance: How to be the Star of Your Life

How to Build Your Successful Character

Don’t be Defined

    You’ve asked.  And the world answered. You are tall, short, thin, fat, desirable, funny, intellectual, creative, likeable, unapproachable, promotable, forgettable, formidablelovablehatableuglyprettysexynastymaternalsmart.   I could go on but the point is – we don’t have all day.  In fact, we only have the next five minutes that you spend reading this post.  After that, it’s over.  The Who-Am-I gig? … Read more →

The Smile and its Role in an Amazing Performance

  Whether you’re trying to teach your children positive social skills or are looking to improve your own, this is a perfect place to start.   Why should we smile?   Smiling helps you speak clearly.  Smiling helps strengthen facial muscles that, in turn, help with diction.  A smile also moves the lips out of the way so that frontal… Read more →

Visualization and Anxiety

It’s a way of life – seeing, smelling, feeling every place so that you can evoke the full experience at will and project it onto a blank space of the stage to tell a story.  At least it is when you are an actor.  What if you are not an actor but you want to live a different story, one… Read more →

To Swear or Not to Swear

  I’ll admit.  When you’re speaking, I’ll like you more if you swear at least once within the first few minutes of us meeting each other.  I’ll feel more at ease. But that is not without its conditions.  Nothing gross, gratuitous, or derogatory.  I know.  I’m picky.  Insert the F bomb between every other word and I won’t feel at ease at… Read more →