Course: Introduction to Acting

In this video, Johan’s in the wings giving some final words of advice before we walk on stage. If you really understand your choices, then that’s all you can do …

And now you can put it all together. This part of the work you need to do on your feet. The only way to really see what you have at …

In this video, Johan talks about how the text will offer specific clues as to how we might play a certain moment. This can be thought of as the musicality …

In this video Johan talks about using the text in the way that Meisner described as a roadmap to behavior. When reading the script, you will get ideas about how …

In this video, Johan talks about how to add the words on top of all the work we’ve done so far. To use your lines to answer whatever the moment …

At the end of last week, I asked you to think about what we’ve discussed here as you watch the performances of others. And as you’ve started applying the concepts …

This week we will search the text for not just what you’re doing, but how. We will do this in three steps: simply adding the words, the text as a …

In this second week we’ve looked at the building blocks of a dramatic situation. The goal has been to specify a few clear choices we need to make to understand …

As you may have realized the work will be part finding clues in the script and part using your imagination to make what you find specific and interesting and meaningful …

Now it’s time for you to start applying what you have learned so far on a written text. Remember that last week I asked you to choose a scene to …

In this video, Johan talks about how we are now ready to start listening and answering from a specific point of view. He then goes on to talk about how …

In this video, Johan talks about feelings and emotion in acting. Thinking too much about different emotional states, and how to project them, will usually only serve to make us …

In this video, Johan examines the idea of scene objectives and why understanding this concept is one of the trickier parts of acting. A common misunderstanding is that the point …

In this video, Johan talks about what an activity is, and how to set it up so that you can focus on the doing without having to worry about pretending …

As an acting teacher I’m a big proponent of having a method for your acting studies. I think that it’s usually beneficial to have a clear formulated idea to start …