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Character and Situation Analysis: 

When analyzing a role, read the script thoroughly and ask:

• Who am I?
• Where am I?
• What do I want?
• What's in my way?
• What do I do to get what I want?
• What are the other characters doing?
• Why are they doing it?
• How are they doing it?
• Ask the "Magic If": What would I do if I were in the same situation?

Write down your observations and write cues on content and delivery in the margins of your script.

Tuning Your Instrument: 

Exercise Your Mind, Voice, and Body

• Practice vocal exercises daily: volume, enunciation, pitch, quality, regional and foreign accents, and characterization.
• Practice physical exercises daily: stretches, facial and body expression, and basic mime.
• Practice improvisation exercises daily: for quick, complex responses to acting situations.
• Learn the basics of stage movement: how to "cheat" toward the audience without being obvious.
 
• Always look at the world through actor's eyes: "hold the mirror up to nature"
• Read plays and articles and books on the craft.
• Attend a variety of live theatre and film.

 

Developing An Acting Portfolio:

Volunteer for any work in the theatre.

• Join theatre organizations.
• Attend theatre classes and workshops
• Create vivid characters of various ages and backgrounds.
• Prepare several monologues with varied characters and styles: comedy and dramatic, modern and period, realistic and abstract.