“Plan” Your Vacation but Stop Trying to Plan Your Acting

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,Read 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 yourRead 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 lessRead 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’tRead 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 ofRead 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 futureRead 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 ourRead more