This vlog was recorded a week before the Paris and Beirut terrorist attacks but I wanted to use this written post to share my deepest sympathies with the families of the victims of those cowardly acts and use it also as an opportunity to continue to engage us in conversations about what it truly meansRead more
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Instagram model Essena O’Neill gained a lot of attention last week in her video message about the perils of letting the social media machine continue to run our lives unabated. From the media’s obsession with presenting images of what life is supposed to look like and what we need to consume or buy or haveRead more
What is theatre? What is art? Why do we go see movies or watch TV? Listen to opera or classical music? Take in an art installation or a ballet performance? Surely, it’s to have our own experiences reflected back to us. To realize we’re not alone in how we feel, love and think. Fulfilling someRead more
Imagine being an artist in Nazi Germany in the 1940’s. A Jewish singer. A gay ballet dancer. Imagine being an actor in North Korea today. Or a performance artist in Syria. Now imagine not being able to do what you love. Throughout history, the artist has been considered subversive. Especially to dictatorships and regimes hostileRead more
Retrain the brain. The real reason we generally don’t move forward in life with our insights, “Ah-ha’s”, epiphanies, ideas and inspirations is simple. We fail to take action. Act now, think later. The more we think about something, the less likely we are to do it. Science explains this is because the more time weRead more
Let’s do this. Myth #1: “I must protect my heart.” Actually, you can’t. Well, you can, but what’s the point? Trying to move through life constantly shielding yourself from being vulnerable ends up making you move as if through quicksand, carrying a heavy burden on your shoulders that everyone hears you bitching about. And actuallyRead more
Olivia Newton John had a big hit on her hands in the ’80s with the song “Physical.” Let’s get physical, physical I wanna get physical, let’s get into physical Let me hear your body talk, your body talk Let me hear your body talk Hmm”¦she makes it sound so easy, doesn’t she? And for someRead more
There is a Taoist parable in which a farmer had only one horse. One day the horse ran away. The neighbors came to console him over his terrible loss, “You must be so upset. This is horrible.” The farmer simply said, “We’ll see.” A month later, the horse came home, this time bringing with herRead more
Last time I checked, every person on this planet still shared a common denominator. That is, we’re all human. And that’s the call into acting right there. (That’s the call into all art, actually.) To be more human in our work, in our lives, in our interactions with others. To be curious about what itRead more
I have a new acting book coming out next year called, “Book the F*@king Job!” In it, I hope to dispel a lot of the myths still surrounding “acting” and help actors understand that they’re probably doing a much better job naturally than they realize, and that the more we’re taught to question in ourselvesRead more