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What’s In a Name?

Recently, I was asked to help someone find a good and qualified acting teacher in or near Tampa, FL. I began searching and started running across names such as The Acting Studio, Actors Studio, Actors Studio School, and other similar titles. All of these are of course intended to make the prospective actor believe that there is some extension or connection to the actual “The Actors Studio”. All of these schools or classes have no association nor connection to the work that was taught by Lee Strasberg in his classes or discussed and practiced at “The Actors Studio”. There is an intentional intent to mislead and an attempt to cash in on the name of a world revered institution that changed the course of modern acting.

Acting, Lee Strasberg, Method ActingDavid GideonFebruary 9, 2010#Method Acting, #Lee Strasberg, #The Actors Studio, #Elia Kazan, #Harold Clurman, #Stella Adler, #Sandy Meisner, #Acting Teachers, #NY #NYC #StellaAdler #Los Angeles #Actor #DavidGideon

Outrageous

The intent of this blog (even when it was germinating in my mind) has always been to try to set the record straight and correct the many myths and misconceptions surrounding The Method. After all, who was better qualified than someone who had studied with Lee Strasberg for 11 years; someone who Lee trusted to teach in his name; someone who Lee taught how to teach; someone who Lee made the Director of his New York school? In other words ME.

Acting, Lee Strasberg, Method ActingDavid GideonJanuary 28, 2010

“The Ability to be Private in Public”

That, in part, was one of Stanislavski’s definitions of good acting. Just the other day, one of my SUNY University students posted a blog on Twitter saying that he had been alone in a rehearsal studio working on a monologue. He said that he felt so free without having other people around to watch and judge him. He’s right of course. We all feel that way from time to time, but HOW do we achieve that every time we’re working; especially when there’s an audience?

Acting, Lee Strasberg, Method ActingDavid GideonJanuary 26, 2010#Method Acting, #Lee Strasberg, #The Actors Studio, #Elia Kazan, #Harold Clurman, #Stella Adler, #Sandy Meisner, #Acting Teachers, #NY #NYC #StellaAdler #Los Angeles #Actor #DavidGideon