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

How to Build Your Successful Character

Lesson One: Witness vs. Judgement

She wore an oversized sweat shirt and leggings, barely a stitch of makeup, and her black hair peppered lightly with grey was pulled up in her signature pony tail.  There was nothing superficially fussy about the woman but she exuded the elegance of a dancer, the grace of a performer, and the passion of a true teacher.  She also taught us one of my favourite lessons.  Cathy was our Movement… Read more →

A Call to the Quiet Ones

  I am used to that look. The look I get when I try to explain how someone like me, introverted and generally averse to attention, becomes an actor. Of course, after years of training in, well…talking, I don’t come across as introverted or quiet.  Most people over-generalize actors and create an image of them as attention hungry, overly exuberant, always-performing… Read more →