The 3 Most Important Things They Never Teach in Acting Class

Actor training works across several dimensions

Most acting classes follow a formula similar to this (with some variation, of course): warm-up exercises, sometimes imaginative play or improvisation, a discussion by the teacher of one or another of various principals the teacher would like to focus on for that class, and then an application of the work such as a monologue or scenes performed by the students to which the teacher will make comments and adjustments. This is a tried-and-true method...