Presenting...Harand Camp of the Theatre Arts! Join us for another gleeful summer on the beautiful campus of Carthage College in Kenosha. Now celebrating 57 years of non-competitive musical theatre...
www.actorsfoundry.com "Confidence" is a misused term that produces falseness. Actors must pursue self awareness and let themselves be fully seen. The Actor’s Foundry is...
www.actorsfoundry.com "Choice" has become a diversion from the actual work at hand, misguiding actors to an audience intellectually-driven perspective. We must submit to what is written,...
www.actorsfoundry.com When you bring tricks to your work the camera will know. The audience will see you as inauthentic and not "know" you or "get" your work. You MUST know...
www.ActorsFoundry.com The art happens separate to the craft. It’s crucial, but must have it’s specific time for exploration. The "art" is building your instrument through self...
A very long, stressful, unproductive day today... But at least I got some training in at the end of it ^_^. My back is still bothering me and effecting the accuracy of my kicks. And to make it...
www.ActorsFoundry.com We actors want to think of ourselves as artists. When we’re doing the work, this is not the case. When we accept that we are CRAFTSPEOPLE, we pave the path to artistic...
Here is Alpha working on some of her tricks. She took a Pet Acting class taught by the awesome Paula P. I’ve been pretty lazy with practicing her tricks so I decided to make this little video...
6 year old Jessie Bavly performs in, "The Show 2011." The Performance Factory...offering training in musical theater, dance and acting. tpfnotes@yahoo.com for more information. (Newton, MA)
www.ActorsFoundry.comThe audience is there to have animal connections to animal behaviour. Even the best most experienced actors miss the mark from time to time. You must protect your focus and...
www.ActorsFoundry.com We are both privileged and cursed to act today. The 3-channel universe has given way to constant access to real human behaviour. This is our competition, and our blessing - it...
www.ActorsFoundry.com We intellectualize ourselves away from the animal, feed the ego, and create false behaviour - OR we allow for true human ANIMAL behaviour to occur - that’s Acting. For...
www.ActorsFoundry.com Reality is the day. If as an actor, you are working from your head, the audience’s animal will repulse it - exactly as we do to "fake" or...
Making its World premiere at The Cleaning Show was the Jangro training spectacular DVD called ’Jangro products, training, health and safety’. It cost thousands to produce by a top...
www.ActorsFoundry.com We WANT to follow our instincts. The trouble is that when it comes to story our initial instincts are intellectual choices that are not born of story understanding, so most...
www.ActorsFoundry.com "Blocking" does just that when it’s not discovered through process. To START with blocking is to lock a performance down before the story is understood. On...
Tips for Atlanta and Gwinnett actors for the acting industry. This blog features tips on how to market yourself on the internet. Great for children, teen and adults to enhance acting classes or...
www.ActorsFoundry.com "LIFE" is always in motion. "To Be" is "To Do". When we wrap our heads around that, we can evolve past the notions of "success or...
Damion Omar Lee: www.selfreflections.yolasite.com Damion Omar Lee born and raised in Brooklyn NY possesses the same raw, intense, resourcefulness onscreen as did the streets he grew up on....
www.ActorsFoundry.com "CHEMISTRY" is a term that is often (mis)understood to be a natural phenomenon. It’s NOT. It’s the JOB of the actor to create "chemistry" it...
www.ActorsFoundry.com Our research lab is the world. The studying never stops - there’s a "one foot in and one foot out of life" perspective the actor has - observing dissecting...
We remind the audience they are alive. We experience "shock of existence moments" that most experience only a few times in their lives regularly. Process and self knowledge are at the...
As artists, our job is to "hold a mirror up to society" and reflect real life back to real life. If it doesn’t happen in "real life" it’s not allowed to happen in...
www.ActorsFoundry.com Acting continues to evolve as humanity evolves. It is a dynamic, growing thing, and we must pay attention - we cannot sit on definitions from the past, we must use those as a...