Choosing Your College Theater Program

Choosing Your College Theater Program

by | Oct 19, 2020

Answers for High School Students Determined to Pursue an Acting Degree but Totally Stressed Out by the Process!​ Covid has changed many things, but it has not changed how anxiety-producing and puzzling the process of selecting a post-secondary acting/theater program...
Monologues for College Auditions

Monologues for College Auditions

by | Oct 15, 2020

Answers for High School Seniors Determined to Pursue an Acting Degree but Totally Stressed Out by the Process! Typically at this time of year I am knee-deep in conducting monologue workshops and privately coaching high school seniors who are knee-deep in the...
Take the A Train(ing)

Take the A Train(ing)

by | Sep 22, 2020

When I was four years old, I stepped foot on a stage for the first time. I played the Dolly everyone sang hello to, a bah-bah black sheep that had some wool, and two other roles that clearly did not make a lasting impression. By the time the curtain came down, I was...
Making Friends with Monologues

Making Friends with Monologues

by | Jun 8, 2016

If you wanted to frighten a group of actors with something they’d find ghastly and dreadful, you could turn to vampires, zombies, or ghosts. Or you could just tell them to prepare a monologue audition. For actors, it seems, monologues and zombies have much in common:...
Race, Oscar, Race!

Race, Oscar, Race!

by | Jan 19, 2016

There has been quite a stir in entertainment news lately as one influential actor after another tweets, or posts, their outrage at the lily-white list of Best Actor contenders that was revealed during last week’s Oscar nomination announcements. In short order the...