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Week Twenty Six: The Specific & Improvisational Actor

Jul 5, 2023
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Happy Wednesday! Welcome back to Acting Class Daily. Let’s dig in to this week’s personal crafting work - adding resources, recommendations, and troubleshooting tips inspired by the discoveries and challenges of EA teammates worldwide.


Taking A Break

After reading this sentence:

  1. Gift yourself with a 10 second break.


Your Pace. Your Time. (class clip)
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Recharge Phase (class clip)
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Specific + Improvisational

Taking a moment to wonder at how far you’ve come in your work and express it in Creative Communication:

  1. Find a piece of music that captures your acting muscle of specificity at the start of our time together.

  2. Find a painting that captures your acting muscle of specificity today.

  3. Find an object that captures what it felt like to be in-character at the start of our time together.

  4. Find a passage from a book of fiction that captures what it feels like to be in-character today.


The S&I Actor (class clip)
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EA Physical Practice Playlist (Spotify)

EA Physical Practice Playlist (Apple Music)


This week I’ve added THREE new songs to our EA Physical Practice playlist.

Gravity (Sara Bareilles) to invite the taste of touch, Heal (Tom Odell) to inspire the permission of our lazy, Sunday morning roll, and Departure (Daughter) to inspire your world of standing and spinning into the unknown.

The EA Physical Practice playlist is setup to be used three songs at a time, offering new flavors and colors to each of your explorations.


EA Imagination Practice Playlist (Spotify)

EA Imagination Practice Playlist (Apple Music)


This week I’ve added Elysium (Lostboy, Slashtaq) to our EA Imagination Practice playlist.

The playlist begins with Perpetual Mobile (Penguin Cafe Orchestra) to ignite our Michael Chekhov work, welcome our mischievous Elysium Artist, and stir the feel of forward.

Songs are added weekly, inspiring new levels of permission and play as you cross the threshold into your playground of possibility.


It’s time to highlight a Substacker (or two) that’s sure to tickle the tastebuds and add some spice to this week’s work:

Film Specific Dispatches

Dispatches on independent film and television development, finance, packaging, distribution. All actionable. No fluff.
By Stacey Parks

Let's Talk Improv

all things improv - what's on in Pōneke, NZ and further afield, what we're up to, and what I've seen
By Jennifer O'Sullivan

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