EMOTIONAL ACCESS with MARILYN MCINTYRE
Live and online from Los Angeles
Emotional empathy and vulnerability are at the core of all compelling acting; whether on stage or for the screen.
Human beings are ‘wired’ to be emotional. Discover and trust the ‘wiring’!
A key element that must never be forgotten is that great acting starts with ‘being’ . Being fully present and living authentically in your own life will allow you to make the ‘actor’s leap’ into the given circumstances of the script and live authentically in the fictional world.
The fusion of personal experience and imagination is what allows an actor to fully personalise the material. Finding where something ‘plugs into you’. Acting is really about preparing to act. Preparation will give you the freedom to be truly present, ‘in the moment’ and act on your impulses. In this lecture Marilyn McIntyre outlines how to have the courage to surrender and be present with the other person and allow things to happen, allow yourself to be affected. Being is what will allow you to experience every take or performance as if for the first time.
CONTACT HOURS AND DATES
Monday 18 May, 11am-12:30pm*
*All class times are listed Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
CLASS FEE
FREE
HOW TO ATTEND
This class will be hosted on Zoom. As some of our classes are hosted in LA and some in Australia, you may not receive your Zoom link until a few hours before the class begins. Typically Zoom links are sent 10-24 hours before a class begins. You do not need to have a Zoom account to participate. You will however need a desktop, laptop, tablet or phone to attend.
CLASS TUTOR
As a member of the Howard Fine Acting Studio faculty, Marilyn McIntyre specialises in teaching Scene Study, Foundation and Personalisation. Marilyn developed the Personalisation program at Howard Fine’s request, as a way of helping actors harness their personal experiences to bring their most authentic selves to their work.
Marilyn studied at HB Studio in New York, with Michael Shurtleff and was also a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Actors Workshop. In Los Angeles, Marilyn had the privilege of studying with Uta Hagen, and is featured on Uta Hagen’s ‘Acting Class’ DVD, performing Hagen’s tenth object exercise: Historical Imagination, in which she plays Charlotta from the Cherry Orchard. She has also trained with esteemed director Anna Bogart and leading members of the SITI Company, as well as holding a Master of Fine Arts (Penn State University) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (University of North Carolina School of the Arts).
Marilyn is a multi-award-winning actor, whose credits include leading roles on and off Broadway as well as in Los Angeles, where she garnered multiple Ovation, LA Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly and BackStage Garland awards, and several nominations for her work with companies such as Rogue Machine Theatre, VS. Theatre Company, Matrix, Open Fist, Deaf West and Interact among others. Most recently she made her fourth appearance in Rogue Machine’s ‘Around-the-Clock’ play festival. Her film and television credits include ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘Cold Case’, ‘Watch Over Me’ (series regular), ‘Judging Amy’, ‘LA Law’ ‘X-Files’, ‘Shuffle’, ‘Heaven’s Rain’, ‘On Holiday’, ‘The Ring Two’, the hit short ‘George Lucas in Love’ and many more. Most recently she worked opposite Brenda Vaccaro in the independent feature ‘30-Love’.
In addition to the Howard Fine Acting Studio, Marilyn also teaches at the Los Angeles SAG-AFTRA Conservatory at AFI, and is the coordinator of the acting program for Elon in LA: ‘Climbing the LAdder’ at Elon University. She has taught at California State University-Northridge (CSUN), the Old Globe/University of San Diego MFA Program, University of Southern California, University of Texas-Austin and Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, among others.