Why Do Actors Act?

I’m going to stretch my “frozen rubber band” imagination and answer the extremely common question, “Why do I act slash why do I like acting?” Ask a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle what their favorite pizza is and you won’t hear the same...

Are Actors Good Liars?

The question “Are good actors good liars?” bothers me a great deal. Stepping beyond the fact that I am an actor, the implication that a profession exists entirely in falsehood is baffling. Are we as a culture willing to believe actors live to pretend, and...

Act(ing) Your Age or the Part

Social structure demands that we act our age. In Japan I was told that at some undefined, though understood, time in life ice cream became a thing of the past. Oddly enough the experience I had reflected that sentiment. In the USA it can be heard on the playgrounds,...

The First Hour of the Day

Waking up at 6am every morning, to feed the kittens, sounds exciting horrible insane to most people I know. During the summer it’s great, the sun is out and it feels great opening your eyes. A new day. Sure, that changes in the fall/winter here in the north east...