Actors on Acting – The Acting Corps Blog

When we are living well on the other side of grace, it is only the same actions we performed when grace was our guiding force that will steer us back to the true and the eternal. What I mean is that when as artists we lose our way, how do we get back to our purpose, back to the source?

Today I heard a story about a group of young resident doctors at a teaching hospital who gathered around a patient with a fractured arm bone to study the nature of bones and fractures and so on. The dozen or so young doctors ALL took turns probing the fracture while the patient stood by silently, [...]

In Hollywood, it is often said that “It is not enough to succeed, but your friends must also fail.” I suppose that hurt people hurt people. Oh, well…

Our sense of self preservation dictates that we protect ourselves against every kind of possible calamity, real or imagined…yet there is another wisdom; Artaud reminds us that the true artist not only chooses to burn at the stake, but she also signals to us through the flames, describing her experience. Artaud was considered insane, but [...]

Is it too much to ask to be allowed to script our final scenes, our lives’ final exits into the great void of eternal unemployment? Think about it; dying would almost be bearable – we would rehearse all the players, make sure they know their lines cold, and then depart to the sweet sound of [...]