Aaron's Notes

Week One: Kindred Spirits

Jan 03, 2023

Happy Tuesday! Welcome back to Acting Class Daily. We’re taking our weekly work further with access to my handwritten notes for each audio chapter, the glossary gigantum and … a new nominee for our digital wall.

Dramatic Society (1998)

My first ever role - in a truth-telling moment that made me fall in love with acting.

NYU’s Meisner Studio (2000)

Vicki never sat in judgement of our work … she lived through it fully with all her humanity. Heartbeat by heartbeat. Radiating with joy, so proud of our success.

I loved arriving before class to take advantage of the calm focus of our space. Here’s a shot of our lil’ group that cut lunch short - all to *earn* being “ready to work.”

Utah Shakespearean Festival (2003)

Taking a break from rehearsing the wedding in *Much Ado About Nothing*.

The first actors I ever directed! (USF’s Youth Shakespeare)

Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre (2005)

The grad school crew at Zoe’s Diner, our favorite spot in Cambridge. They even created this very breakfast special for us called “The Waffle Slammer!”

Outside the front steps of the Moscow Art Theatre school.

X Repertory Theatre Company (2008-2011)

Theatrum Elysium / Elysium Conservatory Theatre (2011-2018)

GLOSSARY GIGANTUM; a giaaaant glossary.

Each week, we’ll use this space to define in greater detail one of the terms, or turns of phrase, that make up The Elysium Aesthetic.

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We had a tradition of capturing quotes on the Elysium walls. The torch has now been passed to the digital realm. Here’s this week’s nominee … and the .GIF it inspires:

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