Creating Behavior with Charlie Sandlan

Emotion is an area of acting that is mostly misunderstood, and often causes a great deal of performance anxiety.  How do you organically and truthfully access emotion?  Most actors indicate, or fake it, and many try to squeeze it out of themselves like getting juice from a lemon.  Charlie talks about the difference between quantity and quality, the ways an actor can come to life, and the artistic...

#004 Perhaps you can relate; you have a dream of being a professional actor. You get headshots, type up a resume, and spend a few years putting together a hodgepodge of classes.  And then you have a realization. "I don't really know how to act, I have no way of working."  This is a defining moment for anyone who really wants to be an artist.  What do you do when your realize that wh...

Join Charlie for his first interview.  He talks with actress Candace Maxwell, a former professional dancer, now trained actor, who currently appears in the CW show Katy Keene.  Candace talks about her first professional job on season 6 of the Starz hit series Power, and her audition for the role, a sex scene with Larenz Tate.  Candace is also a former student of Charlie's, and they talk about...

#002 We are in precarious times.  America's racism is tearing at the fabric of our lives. The world is in crisis, and throughout history, the artist has always risen up from our collective despair to bear witness and testify creatively about our human experience.  In this time of searing injustice, quarantine and isolation, how does the artist, the actor, care for their artistic soul, while a...

#001  Charlie Sandlan talks about who he is, and the winding artistic journey from actor, to owner and master teacher of the Maggie Flanigan Studio in NYC.  Charlie will describe what Creating Behavior will be, and why he has decided to share his 30 years of experience with everyone interested in understanding more deeply, the craft and beauty of acting and the creative process.   You can follow C...