ONLINE LECTURE WITH MARILYN MCINTYRE | SUBSTITUTION & TRANSFERENCE
Live and online from Los Angeles
A human being attempting to navigate through an event, conflict, discovery, decision, or crisis is compelling to watch. An actor creating truthful human behaviour can be compelling too, by using technique to live in the middle of a fictional event and the text to navigate through it.
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.
This lecture will not be recorded.
CONTACT HOURS AND DATES
Sunday, 7 July 10am-1pm*
*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).