Archive for May, 2009

Amy Lyndon on actor training and achievement

Amy Lyndon owned and operated Gold-Levin Talent Management for 9 years and has been a Booking Coach for close to 18. She created The Lyndon Technique: The 15 Guideline Map To Booking, which has helped 1000’s of students learn how to book jobs and consistently earn their living as actors. [See a review of the [...]

Developing intuition to enhance acting performance

Praising one of the stars of her upcoming movie “Bright Star,” director Jane Campion commented about Abbie Cornish: “She has to be very true to her instincts, she doesn’t know how to betray them; it would be a little death to do so. “She is weirdly strong, gracious, intuitive and bold and fabulously stubborn at [...]

Personal development for actors – Jeffrey Tambor on using fear

Actor and teacher Jeffrey Tambor describes how fear can impact presence and creativity in performances and auditions, and how to shift the experience of fear. “I think the main idea behind my teaching is the issue of fear and how we use that to our advantage,” he writes. “We are all fear-based creatures. And fear [...]