“Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don’t belong. You will always find it because you’ve made that your mission.” – Brené Brown Her words ultimately reiterate something we’ve been talking about for a long time, confirmation bias. That what you are looking to find and to see, you will. But, howRead more
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There are times we wish it could all just be EASY. That we had the answers. That we could meet our goals, achieve our dreams, and tick the boxes in an orderly and simple fashion. But, that’s not life. And that’s a good thing! For it’s in the journey, the pitfalls, the conflict and theRead more
It’s difficult to restrain from playing Shakespeare BIG. When acting classical material, sometimes actors forget to just be human beings. We pose like we think a Greek statue would pose. They were REAL people. They did what we do! They weren’t statues, and neither are we.Read more
You don’t need the perfect sweater or perfume to be enough. You’re not just another consumer statistic. YOU, just you, are more than enough. Don’t forget that this Holiday season.Read more
Stanislavsky, later in his life, actually redacted a lot of his acting methods. After many realizations, he was trying to get people to understand a lot of the same concepts that AMAW teaches. Instead of “building the character,” he was trying to get people to be in the NOW. It was a more spiritual, emotional,Read more
The time of your life is now. Here’s the crazy thing, when you’re in your 20’s, you think the time of your life is going to be when you…fill in the blank…in some distant future when things start to come together for you, and that’s when you really start living your life. Wrong. The timeRead 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
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