My acting instructor, Julie-Anne Liechty says, “Acting is being real in pretend situations. Anything else looks like acting.” To paraphrase the Chevrolet commercials, however, most of us are real people, not actors. (Although I have met some pretty real people who are actors and some “real” people who are anything but.) Even if you never…
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Acting classes—should you be taking them? I am. Just so you know, this isn’t something I have done a great deal of—acting or acting classes or film or theater. I am not counting the facades, personas and personalities I may or may not have affected throughout my life. I am also not counting times I…
Read moreI was a factory worker in Russia on November 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Actually, I wasn’t even born yet. But the other day I had an opportunity to be an extra in the television show Granite Flats. The scene in the episode being filmed was taking place on that…
Read moreI like the idea of being a professional. I like it more than being a flake, which according to my way of thinking was participation in fields that involved anything smacking of right brain use—artist, actor, writer, dancer, painter, illustrator, etc. Well, call me a flake now because in February I took acting classes. I had…
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