Take Note
The practice of keeping a technique journal helps to keep my work alive, puts my focus on curiosity and discovery, and helps me clarify whatever feels muddy.
Choose (Your Options) Wisely
The key to achieving life’s most important goals: being mindful of small choices that mask big consequences.
Serious Play
There’s a purpose to purposeless pursuits: they keep our curiosity alive. Give yourself permission to get busy playing.
Stop Stopping Yourself
There are many obstacles, snags, and flat-out brick walls you can hit with any career in the arts… you don’t have to be one of them.
Freedom From Expectations
You wouldn’t think that releasing your expectations would be a key to enjoying a better life. But releasing expectations can be the ticket out of the “how I think things should be” prison.
Happiness Is No Endgame
Four questions that turn “waiting to be happy” into a life happily lived.
Getting Unstuck
Everyone gets stuck. And when you’re stuck it can feel impossible to move forward. Paradoxically, the actions taken to get stuck are comforting, and the actions needed to get unstuck definitely are not.
Traps, Escapes, and Fighting for Control
Here are the top four audition traps I’ve witnessed (and fallen into myself) and their fixes.
Preparing for New Roles
Role prep of any kind starts with a big-picture overview of the character and narrows down to specific days, specific moments. Once you’re in the daily grind, it’s easy to lose sight of why you started—and only focusing on minutiae
If I’d Only Known Sooner
Three of my biggest regrets, the lessons I learned, and what I’m doing to make sure I don’t have to make the same mistakes twice.