Remember Your Role

These are some tips and skills that are listed on how to audition well and to understand that auditioning isn't about getting a role, but the experience needed to make you a better actor.  Our job as actors whether you are just getting started or are working on Broadway in New York is to understand that your job is simply to audition. So, we need to learn how to have fun while doing it. These...

Do you know someone who wants to start in theatre but doesn't know how to start? This season and series will be the best for them to understand and use to help them get started. Please share this with your friends who want to get started but don't know how. Taking you through the description of auditioning as well as how to find it and what to expect from the audition. This is not the te...

Carrie discusses the feeling of rejection of not getting into a show and how she felt. She still supports people and goes to the show, then we talk through the options available to us to feel better about not being in the show. We work through the possibility to feel good about the experience and not just the result of getting into the show. "Every action you take is a vote for the person you...

Mahatma Gandhi one of the very best leaders of peace and love said, "Honest Disagreement is a Good Sign of Progress." This is something we can learn and use in our lives to make a difference in those we talk with and disagree with as well.  We all deal with so many people and working together in this world we will always have something to disagree with, but if we use this time to realize...

Interesting events that have happened these weeks show how we can support or deal with loss in this life and what we can do to help those that are affected. Carrie Shares the loss of a co-worker and how she dealt with it and what she thinks would be good to help them. Paul Shares things he deals with and possibly more people deal with these difficulties as well.  Hopefully, it helps you realize yo...

Carrie talks about going to a very funny show at the Hopebox and how sometimes we need to feel those good emotions and how those emotions can be made to relate to us in our lives.  She was laughing hard and it is great for people who are in the audience to express their emotions as well as to help tell the story through the emotions they are trying to portray. What do we do in our theatrical world...

Ever wonder what it is really like on Broadway? Sophia Mancilla has been working there for several years and shares her experience in this podcast to hopefully help you understand the real world of acting on Broadway.  She is very inspirational about how you should love where you are and see your life in a new way as a success, even if you are just cast in the ensemble of a show in Utah. Great ins...

I know its Cliché to say that you can learn to love everyone.  In this podcast, we are going to cover the fact that loving everyone is loving yourself first. I am still working on it all the time, but I am loving myself more every time I think about these principles. Hopefully, it will help you too. Holy moments, by Matthew Kelly https://www.dynamiccatholic.com/holy-moments.html Remember Your Role...

What does it mean to serve others? How is that helpful in our lives? Research shows that we will increase our life expectancy by 44% more if we are able to serve others. How does that work in your life? In mine, I am serving the Hopebox a great organization helping us to serve someone in the community. And although it is nice to help them financially it is the experience that they all come back sa...

I love gathering information from many sites and gurus. This week I have a topic about three energy blocks from Mindmovies.com. I am sharing this information to help with understanding the blocks we have on energy according to this group and using it for theatre to help you act better in life and theatre. This is the quiz I mention in the podcast for you to try. Just thought you might like it. htt...

Trusting in theatre is essential for a great production, but sometimes it is hard to trust.  Trust is for you not for the people you are trusting. The best relationships come from trust not necessarily from always being happy but from creating a world of trust. In this podcast, you will find out why it is important to trust and why we need it in our lives to have the best advantages in our lives....

As you act you will become. I take you through a dictation class we went through and the amazing change to being more genuine in acting as we did physical changes to our characters when we were trying the Southern accents for our show. We would see it helped us to connect better and it also draws in the audience and makes them feel like they are part of the show on stage and not just an observer o...

What is Rejection and how does it affect us? Will the Theatre world help us to handle rejection better?  Elinor Blankenship is a professional Clown, Drama teacher, and top speaker in the area of northern Utah. She has had lots of experience on the production side of youth shows and has done several shows as an actor.  The discussion of rejection is important because it helps us to grow and get bet...

Books that I have read lately talk about just getting information out no matter how messy. We discuss how this makes life easier as we look into the mistakes and make them large to see them better as well as how to overcome them. Also, there is a technique in Japan that when ceramic pots and bowls break they put them back together with gold. It makes them look better and more valuable for being br...

Here is another great interview with Carrie Young talking about how Theatrical Performances are just like joining a family and what it means for other parts of your life. In this interview, we talk about several different parts of our lives that become our family, including theatre show families as well as families you create through networking in your life. Even this podcast is now becoming a the...

I am currently struggling with many things and wanted to talk about them and how I am personally dealing with them, in hopes of you learning that our expectations of life that aren't met bring us pain. However, there is a great way to deal with them with a process I was taught in improv to overcome trials and move on.   Using the principle of "Yes, And" from improv you can get throu...

Carrie Young is an amazing entrepreneur who also loves the theatre, however, has several times stopped herself from auditioning because of various reasons.  In this interview, we have just successfully completed a show that I directed with her and we talk about the things I learned from the experience as well as some moments of learning she had in the process as well.  Please leave a comment on th...

What is the concept of Remember Your Role and Why I started it?  We will cover how my Theatrical world started and why I started teaching and coaching people in my life. This will also give you insight into the world and what to expect from future episodes. You will learn who I have studied with and my certifications to teach what I teach.  This will be a comprehensive get-to-know-me session, and...