“. . . everybody’s very eager, you know, to act! Rather than saying, when somebody throws the ball at me, I’ll throw it back. And before that, I’m just kind of looking to find out where the ball is. – Nikos Psacharopoulos
“Try Acting for a Change” classes at St Andrews Church
As a teacher.
As well as training young artists for the theatre profession, I am equally committed to providing an atmosphere of human revelation, regardless of a students’ professional aspirations or abilities.
I believe the height of the actor’s craft is experienced in front of an audience. I believe in training actors for the theatre. I teach my students that our work as artists exists 24/7: our craft can awaken our soul and enrich our daily life. Or as Hamlet says, “the readiness is all.” An acronym of the rehearsal principles I teach is being S.E.R.I.O.U.S.: Study, Explore, Repeat, Independently with Ownership in an Uninhibited and Spiritually devoted process.
It takes twenty years
A tennis pro once asked me what he should do to become an actor. I could only think to ask him what I would need to do to become a tennis pro. If it takes “twenty years to become an actor,” according to Sanford Meisner, and assuming we are not in a play every day, what is going on in the meantime?