• If you are: 
• a professional musician seeking musical inspiration
• a student who loved music before you started studying and now feels overwhelmed.
• seeking the love of making music after years of not finding it, and now coming back to playing.
• a music lover who played an instrument when you were younger, stopped, and have said for years, “I wish I never stopped taking those lessons.”

I can teach my students no matter where their current abilities lie – from the ...

“Basically, what you are doing out there is you. When it comes down to it, what the people see, what they want to see, is not a role or a character or a piece of work. What they want to see is you: your breath, your thoughts, your laughter, your violence, your pain, all of it.” - James Cromwell

I often begin my initial interviews with performers by asking: "What are you good at?" and then ask, "What terrifies you?" Every artist must first understand what their strengths are, and then make sure that the thing they default to is a choice, not a habit. This requires courage on the part of the performer, a willingness to get up in front of their peers and feel helpless, to take a leap of faith, to endure temporary discomfort. There are very few ...

The Trigger Approach is a script analysis technique I originally learned studying with Richard Seyd that I have expanded on and added to. It is a way of breaking down text, thought by thought, that helps the actor stay in the moment. I ask people not to memorize their lines but rather to focus on the impulses or triggers that create their thoughts. The result is that you focus on listening to a much greater degree, and lines feel more spontaneous in ...