ONLINE LECTURE WITH MARILYN MCINTYRE | EMOTIONAL COURAGE
Live and online from Los Angeles
As actors, we must have the courage to show up and be seen; each and every time we sail off into the fictional world. It is not our job to create the dragons – our emotions. They already exist.
Our job is to build the boat, sail to the edge of the map and navigate them.
When we have the emotional courage to explore and experience the internal life of our character, we are able to take our audience on a journey into the unknown, to let them experience the character’s world.
This lecture examines and explores some of the concepts and vocabulary we use to understand the difference between internal and external, and how those concepts apply to acting.
Internal contemplation:
Living
Passion and need
Emotion
Empathy
Instinctive - heart and soul
External contemplation
Watching
Desire and want
Feeling
Sympathy
Intellectual - mind
It is never about “playing an emotion” or “having a feeling”. It’s about having an instrument that is ready to serve the script, and create the fiction, through a unique, living human being.
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”
--Brené Brown
This lecture will not be recorded.
CONTACT HOURS AND DATES
Saturday, 1 June 12pm-3pm*
*All class times are listed Melbourne local time
CLASS FEE
$55 (AUD)
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).
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