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In our need for control and for answers, we’re often searching for the right formula in acting. The step-by-step process that’s magically going to get us ‘there’. But, what if the true magic is in the unknown and the unexpected? Learn to trust the mystery, with Tony, in this week’s VLOG.Read more

Our acting work is often a mirror for how we exist and interact in our day-to-day lives. With so much going on in the world it can be easy to shut down, to not feel, to disconnect. But, when we do that we deny ourselves the beauty of our own vulnerability and that shows upRead more

America’s Declaration of Independence was issued almost 250 years ago, but there are major universal philosophies held in that document that speak to us, in a very real way, today. When you look at your life, what sort of prisons and systems of tyranny do you subject yourself to on a daily basis, and howRead more

You are capable. You are an artist. You are a storyteller. But, why do so many of us not recognize that within ourselves and continue to tell our own stories as if we are less than? Find out how to rewrite the narrative, with Tony, in this week’s VLOG.Read more

Our self-preservation instincts, up til now, have served us well. They’ve kept us safe. Protected us. Allowed us to survive. But, when our walls are always up, it keeps us from allowing moments in our life, and in our acting, from TRULY affecting us. Find out the true magic behind the curtain, with Tony, inRead more

For so many of us, most of our life is spent in an attempt to hide the “ugly” parts of ourselves. Our scars. Our wounds. Our brokenness. But, what if we reframed the way we look at those “ugly” parts and saw them instead as what makes us human, unique and interconnected? Find the beautyRead more

In our work and in life, we encounter things that trigger us ALL THE TIME. But, instead of letting that shut us down or put our walls up, what if we leaned into the honest feeling of what was being triggered? Scary, yes. Vulnerable, yes. But, also deeply authentic. Turn your triggers into treasures, withRead more

When we get in a scene we can often let our idea of the script get in the way of the actual moment. But, real-life doesn’t happen that way. The way we plan things rarely unfolds in the way we anticipate, and our interactions with people typically aren’t planned or calculated at all. So whyRead more

We all have masks and suits of armor we’ve built up and put on, to get us through some of our more vulnerable times. And they worked. We survived. But, what happens when we’re still clinging to those things, years later, when they’re no longer serving us? Learn how to set aside the act andRead more

Our creativity, as artists, is SO much more than just the instincts we have in class, or on set, or when we set out to ‘perform.’ So why do we limit our inspiration and confine it to when we think it’s appropriate or when it fits? Learn to listen to your great ideas, with Tony,Read more