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The Experienced Actor

August 24, 2010 by Harvey Kalmenson Leave a Comment

Most experienced actors; the successful ones, that is, enjoy being given performance notes by a director. Make no mistake… giving an actor performance notes is a distinct craft within itself. Some consider it to be the art of psychology at its highest state. Some actors have been known to be a little touchy, considering any […]

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Bad Dialogue Partner

February 26, 2010 by Harvey Kalmenson Leave a Comment

You enter the audition booth only to find that your dialogue partner is a dud; a guy or gal who can’t read, can’t act, had garlic for dinner the night before, and is in favor of paying more income tax. At first you might want to say, “Oy vey, why me God?” Then you realize […]

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Dealing With Direction

February 2, 2010 by Harvey Kalmenson Leave a Comment

“Meet and Respect Your Director”I talked Did they listen?If so, did they think with caring?Was there an understanding?Of what I was sharing? I was their man, of national tootNot a chance of disreputeIn all honesty, after my introductionI expected, nay, warranted a salute! Good, bad, sad, glad, mad, happy, snappy, crappy, nappy, lappy, lippy, snippy, […]

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You and the Director

January 22, 2010 by Harvey Kalmenson 1 Comment

The on going question: What kind of a director was he to work with? The question I ask, not as a director, but as the educator would be: What would you do if there were no directors to work with? “Most actors who have not studied the acting craft of voice over will go up […]

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