Episode notes
“I would encourage you, as I do if you're an actor, to know your own equipment, know your own psychology, and use the great teachers that are synthesized in my favorite teacher's book, Moss, who I studied with later. There is a book called Intent to Live that distills down Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, Bobby Lewis, and Stanislavski. The great teachers at the Group Theatre believed that the method needed to be altered to be constructive rather than destructive to artists.
I love speaking Noël Coward’s words. As a bon vivant, he wrote musically, to charm us and amuse us. So going and reading Noël Coward is important for actors to learn those cadences and the musicality of a certain era.
Of course, Shakespeare comes to mind. I also think of the female playwrights who delight me now, whether it's Caryl Churchill. She has that singula ...
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Sharon Lawrence, acting, theater, journalism, Katharine Graham, NYPD Blue, David Milch, advocacy, AI, technology, improvisation, method acting, Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, environment, Heal the Bay, climate change, dolphins, ocean conservation, Viola Spsharon