The Actors Center Journal Vol. 1 No. 2, November 2009 Actor’s Voice: Jayne Atkinson When I left school all I had was the diploma, the knowledge that I had worked hard to get it and that I was talented. The challenges I faced as a young actor starting out were that you either worked...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 1 No. 2, November 2009 Actor’s Voice: Saidah Arrika Ekulona I’m kind of a rare case, my career started right before things changed in the theatre. In 1995, I started working at the Guthrie Theatre 3 months before I graduated from graduate school. We had a luxurious 3 months...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 1 No. 2, November 2009 Ongoing Concerns Circa 2000, the Actors Center administered the Fox Fellowships, now administered by the Theatre Communications Group. Our criteria for a fellowship—essentially a mini-sabbatical for actors—was that you be nominated by a significant cohort of your fellow actors, who believed your work stood...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 1 No. 2, November 2009 Interview With Rob Clare Rob Clare was educated at Oxford University, trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama (CSSD), London, and worked as an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) before becoming a Staff Director at the National Theatre, working primarily...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 1 No. 2, November 2009 Actor’s Voice: Matthew Marceau To the Editor: Thank you so much for making this journal possible. I am an actor in training, currently studying at Ohio University in the MFA program. I don’t know where the most gifted actors are studying, but if the...
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The Actors Center Journal Vol. 1 No. 2, November 2009 Letter To The Editor: Kimiye Corwin Hello there! My name is Kimiye Corwin. I did The Actors Center Conservatory program in 2003, and it changed my life. Since then I have done and MFA program, got an agent, and now I am trying to...
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The Actor’s Center Journal Vol. 1 Num. 1 September 2009 Letter From The Editor Welcome to the first edition of The Actors Center Journal. We will be a bi-monthly trove of information and opinion mostly emanating from anything having to do with the concept of the actor as an artist. Time was when the...
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The Actor’s Center Journal Vol. 1 Num. 1 September 2009 Letter From The Editor What Are We Doing? In 1970, John Gielgud wrote to his friend Irene Worth that he had been given a tour of one of America’s premier acting conservatories and he commented, “Wonderful classrooms, two theatres, superbly equipped—about 70 students who...
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The Actor’s Center Journal Vol. 1 Num. 1 September 2009 A Personal Reflection by Sanjit De Silva “Why do I want to be an actor anymore?” is the question that I seriously asked myself all last year. Why do I want to be involved with the day-to-day struggles of facing rejection after rejection, living...
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The Actor’s Center Journal Vol. 1 Num. 1 September 2009 Interview With Ron Van Lieu For the Teacher Profile of this first issue of The Actors Center Journal, we have a man universally recognized by his peers and his students—past and present—as an authentic Master Teacher. If any human on the earth can unequivocally be...
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