I Don't Need an Acting Class
By Milton Justice
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Academy Award winner and celebrated acting teacher Milton Justice invites you into his weekly acting class, based on his years of study with the legendary Stella Adler. I Don’t Need an Acting Class delves deep into the craft of acting, breaks down concepts, tools and techniques, explores endless possibilities and offers you a foundation on which to build a solid, dependable process. Produced by Walker Vreeland.
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NYC Classes Beginning October 27th!
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Bonus Video Ep: Let It Happen
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Why Your Acting Choices Must Feed the Material
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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Filling The Choice
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Playing Characters Beyond Your Experience
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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What Worked and What Didn't
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Casting Directors Need to See This
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Announcement!
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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What is Personalizing?
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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Plays Are Difficult
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Bonus Ep: What Separates the Good from the Great
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Bonus Ep: The Imaginary Vacation
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Season 7 is Wrapped!
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Avoid Boring Yourself to Death
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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What Does That Mean
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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A Tear in the Curtain
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Everything Can Be Magical
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Your Attitude Towards Your Partner
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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The Acting Lie Detector
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Milton à Marseille
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Being Active Always
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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I Have (Another Round of) Notes
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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I Have Notes: All My Sons
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Looking for A Revelation
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Robot Drama
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Wandering with The Rainmaker
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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The Structure of Musicals
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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You Can’t Take You Out of It
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Weird Actor Things
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Being a Pleasure to Work With
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Ordinary People (In Extraordinary Circumstances)
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Milton The Mechanic
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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The Nature of Modern Theater: An Analysis of Loose Ends
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Don't Say It Unless You've Built It
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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What Makes A Person
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Enlighten The Audience
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Bonus Video Ep: How We Talk About Our Pain
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May 20, 2024 |
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Bonus Content for The Price of a Latee!
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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There Is No One Secret to Acting
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Upcoming Spring Classes!
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Trusting Your Creative Impulses
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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VIDEO: Mark Ruffalo Goes Rogue
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Mark Ruffalo Goes Rogue
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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What Acting Is and Isn't
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Telling Someone Else’s Story
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Observing The Art of Seduction
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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The Sin We Commit Without Knowing It
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Think Like an Actor
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Be Outstanding
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Active Relaxation
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Playing Witch-Twins on American Horror Story
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Bonus Video Episode: Working Slowly
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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The Given Circumstances Are Everything
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Making the Inactive Active
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Putting In Your Own Words
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Connecting with The Character’s POV
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Bonus Video: Milton on Meisner
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Bonus Episode: One Line of Dialogue
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Improvising Your Character’s POV
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Your Own Way of Working
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Creating The “Other”
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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All You Need for TV
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Acting Is Human Logic
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Getting Hired
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Trust Your Homework
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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We Have Tools
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Want to Study with Milton Justice? Register Now.
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Trailer: I Don't Need an Acting Class
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Bonus Episode: Don't Rely On Your Voice
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Pacing Notes Are Dangerous
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Bonus Episode: The Struggle Is The Play
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Conversation with Sharon Carnicke
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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26 Different Kinds of Films
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Instinct is Developed
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May 29, 2023 |
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Your Character's Ethics
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May 22, 2023 |
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A Scene Outside the Play
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May 15, 2023 |
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We Want to Hear from You!
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May 14, 2023 |
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Living Off of Images
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May 08, 2023 |
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The Plot Is Not The Problem
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May 01, 2023 |
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A Police Procedural Audition
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Active Listening
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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The Character Is Not You
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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The Actor’s Contribution
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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What Are We Saying With This?
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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What Would You Do If You Had the Part?
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Introducing...Bonus Content for Subscribers!
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Exploring the Inner Conflict
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Am I Doing This Right?
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Suddenly Strindberg!
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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The "Why" That Turns The Dial
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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What We Need to Get Where We’re Going
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Experiencing the Research
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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The More You Know
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Choices That Free You
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Margo Martindale: "Make a Stab at It"
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Character Colors Prevent Cliché
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Some Elements of Character
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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We Are Someplace
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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The Loss of Meaning
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Find Your Life Fascinating
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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How Not to Marry a Performance
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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How Objectives Can Cripple You
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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The Ability to See
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Understanding The Playwright’s Struggle
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Be Believable AND Interesting
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Technique is The Antidote to Panic
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Pt. 2: Let the Play Tell You What to Work On
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Pt. 1: Let the Play Tell You What to Work On
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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What Do I Need For This Audition?
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Revelations on Acting
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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A Small Favor
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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Thank You for a Great Season 4!
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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When Your Scene Partner Sucks
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May 31, 2022 |
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A Private Coaching
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May 24, 2022 |
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An Introduction to Tennessee Williams, Pt. 2
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May 17, 2022 |
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An Introduction to Tennessee Williams, Pt. 1
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May 10, 2022 |
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Realism and The American Play
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May 03, 2022 |
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To Remember About Script Analysis
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Pt. 2: ABCs of Audition Prep
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Pt. 1: ABCs of Audition Prep
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Always Come from Somewhere
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Building the Past
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Not Defining a Character Exclusively
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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The Time It Takes
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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The Legacy of Largeness
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Translating an Effect Direction
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Diving Into The Time Period
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Interpreting the Play
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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No, But What's Really Going On?
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Pt. 2: So Much More Than Ourselves
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Pt. 1: So Much More Than Ourselves
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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*Coming Soon*
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Thank You for a Great Season
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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The Idea as a Tool
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Permission to Rehearse
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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When Your Choices Stop Feeding You
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Stealing from the People That Interest Us
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Real Life Vs. Theater
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Exploration & Gestation
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Finding Words That Work For You
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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What Kind of Person Would Do That?
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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The Joy of Acting
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Judging The Characters We Play
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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The Ability to Visualize
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Thoughts on Blocking
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Ways to Raise the Stakes
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Can You Play Two Actions at Once?
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Knowing When It’s Not Working
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Working On A Character Trait
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Take Yourself out of the Mix
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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What Makes a Good Choice
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Soul Problem Vs. Plot Problem
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Playing a Part You Know S*** About
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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How to Talk Out
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Where Our Research Should Lead Us
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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The Accurate Conductor
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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The Shorthand of Emotions
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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This is the Scene Where…
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Building the Place in the Age of Zoom
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Getting to Know You
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May 25, 2021 |
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Big Ideas That Are Part of Us
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May 18, 2021 |
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What Cloud Am I Under?
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May 11, 2021 |
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Interview Your Character (Like Oprah)
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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How Is This Character Different From Me?
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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What’s Going On?
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Show Them What They’re Looking For
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Working Slowly
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Falling Back on “Performing”
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Trial and Error
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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The Action Changes
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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How Do I Know If It’s a Good Choice?
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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The Impulse to Begin
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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What Am I Trying to Say?
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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How Time Period Influences Character
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Be a Snob About Your Process
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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A Return to Rasbor
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Observing Human Behavior
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Have Relationship with Everything
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Staying in the Play
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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The 2 Whys
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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The Educated Imagination
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Know Where You’re Going
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Going There, Wherever There Is
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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The Past in the Present and the Past
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Greasing the Gears
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Events
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Acting as an Artform
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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The Method is a Culture
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Coming Soon: Season 2
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Finding What's Actable
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Putting It Together
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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The Pitfall of Trying to Recreate a Performance
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Acting is Hard
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Play the Cause, Not the Effect
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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More Is More
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Everything is Something
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Assume Nothing
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Size Matters
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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What's the Big Idea?
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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But It’s All A Lie!
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May 26, 2020 |
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But It’s Such a Cool Choice!
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May 18, 2020 |
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2+2= 4ish
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May 13, 2020 |
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Zadacha
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May 05, 2020 |
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Tomatoes, Cucumbers & Toilet Paper
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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A Sequence of Thoughts, Not a Cluster of Words
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Dear Milton, Please Help Me
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Building a Believable Backstory
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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I Relate to Her
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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A Brief History of Acting
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Talk It Out
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Deadly, Deadly Facts
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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The Biggest Sin
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Who Needs Technique?
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Mar 09, 2020 |