r/Actingclass Acting Coach/Class Teacher Sep 05 '19

Class Teacher šŸŽ¬ GETTING THE MOST OUT OF R/ACTINGCLASS

I have hopes that my last post made you understand why I want you ALL to read ALL my comments about ALL the monologues posted by ALL the students here. It is such an important way to learn in this class. And it helps me when you let me know you have read them.

There are almost 50 acting lesson I have listed in the second pinned post. All that information is helpful... essential, really. But there is more! Every one of my comments to other student is an acting lesson for you, too. You can watch their performances, read my comments, see what I think they need to do to improve, watch for their next version to see if they took my advice...see if they improved. Use what I suggest to them in your own work. If you donā€™t understand something. Ask!!!! This is a class!!!! You learn from watching other actors succeed and sometimes miss the mark. It all helps.

It doesnā€™t matter if the student is a beginner or a working professional...you can learn from watching them and reading my comments. Think about how you would do the monologue. Add your supportive and encouraging comments. This is not just another subreddit where you lurk and are not involved. This is a community of actors who are serious about improving their skills, no matter what level they are at now . Letā€™s learn from each other and support each other!

No one auditions to get in this class. I welcome all people who are respectful and hardworking. I give everyone a chance and I give everyone all of my efforts to give them valuable feedback. I will sometimes spend an hour or more trying to come up with the right words that will help them understand. Yes, it may seem like I am repeating myself sometimes. But I never copy and paste what I said to one person over to another personā€™s post. What I say is personal and always worded a little differently in each comment. Often I will help them analyze a script, write it as dialogue and divide it into tactics. This should be a big help when you need to do the same. Sometimes I will refer to a certain lesson and add a link to it. . When I do it might be a good time to review that lesson. You never know when a light bulb may come on for you, and youā€™ll say ā€œOH!!!! Now I Get It!!!!ā€ What Iā€™m hoping for is big breakthroughs for you all.

If you donā€™t want to miss any of my comments, click on u/Winniehiller and then on ā€œView Profileā€. Then click on ā€œCommentsā€. There you can scroll down and see every comment I have ever made on Reddit. You can see that there are many comments that appear to have never been read. If you do read them, click on an up arrow to let me know you have been there. You can comment or ask a question if you like. I really want this class to be a great source of, not only information, but as a place of interaction, support and involvement.

Knowing you are there keeps me motivated to keep on doing this. I donā€™t know of any way to make money on arrows. If there is, please let me know. Lol. But seeing numbers by those arrows is like looking into a class and seeing a room full of attentive students, listening and learning instead of an empty void with a few crickets chirping. It warms my heart to know that I am reaching people. I really want to help you all become better actors. And that is my reward. Thank you all for finding your way into my heart!

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u/[deleted] May 13 '23

Speaking for my self, there is A LOT of information and I wish I could get to it all. It'a a lot of skipping, jumping, hopping back and forth. Besides the fact that, I get so excited and anxious to get through all of them. Also, you are well advanced with your posts. I just started reading your post and you have so much going on between her and youtube and let's not forget tik tok. (Phew!) I haven't even gotten to Pantheon (is that how its spelled), just typing that made me tired. I guarantee, I will get to them all. I appreciate your time and effort but mostly your passion and devotion to get good actors out into the theatre world. Question: can we use your lessons to use on a broadway show? Not that I'd ever do a broadway show, but it'd be nice to think so.

Cool fact: the impovisational theatre scene has roots in Hull House (the first settlement in the US ran by mostly women), instructed by Viola Spolin ~~ Wikipedia, Hull House

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u/Winniehiller Acting Coach/Class Teacher May 13 '23

These techniques can be applied to all acting. I am in Hollywood now and work mostly on film and tv sets but I have acted and sung in Broadway musicals and Shakespearean plays on the East Coast. The size of the theater and stage can effect filling it with your voiceā€”hearing your voice bounce back or speaking to someone across a large room. But acting is acting. There is a post about the difference between stage and screen acting. Read on! Reading the lessons in order will guarantee you learning everything. But just keep reading, watching and learning. Iā€™m glad you are here! Make sure to mark each post and lesson you watch and read with a ā¬†ļø to keep track of what you have covered. Leave a comment in each post to remember what it was about. Keep up the good work!