We have lost a champion. Small in stature, Earle was a brilliant man and a fierce advocate for actors and for the theatre. I met him in August, 1960, when attending graduate school at Tulane. Soon after grad school, Earle was appointed Head of the Carnegie Mellon theatre training program. By his mid 30′s,...
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2012 takes on a special significance for most Americans. Whether or not this is a make or break year depends a lot on one’s perspective on current problems and solutions that will lead to one’s own “promised land.” I write this on Martin Luther King day. I not only wish to honor him for...
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In 454 BC, Greek Actors revolted against the producers of the annual theatre festivals that dotted the nation state and were central to its culture. The actors wanted to be paid in relation to their contribution to this national homage to their gods, and the people’s understanding of the nature of human frailty as...
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This will introduce two new Contributing Editors to The Actors Center Journal. Both are well established, mature actors in their early middle age, who also teach. David Horak lives in Canada, has a long resume of performances in a range of Canadian theatres, and began teaching acting a few years ago. Peter Jay Fernandez...
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December, 2011. Dear Friends, So many of you were appreciative of the sentiments expressed in last year’s appeal letter that I have decided reissue it this season. Read it or discard it for your evening’s pleasure, but please help us advance the actor’s voice in this society. To donate online please visit The Actors...
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“What’s in a name?” We are all called upon to reflect on that question from time to time. I remember struggling with that question from the time I was 5 to almost 25, for no good reason, like suppose my first name was “Lance”, etc. But this last week was particularly poignant. First, we...
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Marjan Neshat is a member of The Actors Center Workshop Company. She graduated from SUNY Purchase about ten years ago and she has been working steadily ever since. It would be incorrect to say that she has been making a comfortable living but she has been able to do exemplary work in some wonderful...
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Ken Prewitt and Susan Vogel are married to each other. They live in a perfect house hidden in the trees high above a 100 acre man-made lake an hour and seventeen minutes north of New York City. It is easy to envy the property and their life together but it is impossible to begrudge...
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ARE WE PART OF “SHOW BUSINESS”??? Having just finished The Actors Center’s “Teacher Development Workshop,” and just before that “The New Leagues Actor Presentations,” commonly referred to as a “Show Case,” that question is much on my mind. Truth to tell, that question has dogged me for some forty years. That was not why...
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What began as a simple, clear-eyed way for dedicated actor training institutions to relate to those intermediaries who assist and connect actors to a profession, has become an over-crowded, misconstrued mess. What was meant to provide the best of our emerging actors an introduction to the range of people who need to know of...
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