Episode 23: Do Teachers Have to be Actors in the Classroom Today?

We often heard it said that teachers have to be actors today in order to keep the attention of today’s low attention span students. Well, in this episode I agree that teachers and actors do think alike in many ways – but not in the ways most people think. Join me as I explore how teachers and actors think alike in terms of objectives, obstacles, “raising the stakes”, and getting feedback from other actors/students.

Resources for this episode

• The Respect for Acting page at Amazon. The author is Uta Hagen.
• The Audition page at Amzon. Author: Michael Shurtleff.
• The True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor page at Amazon. Author: David Mamet.
• The Sanford Meisner on Acting site on Amazon.