I Don't Need an Acting Class
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I Don't Need an Acting Class
Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/actingclass/subscribe 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 i...
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Bonus Video Ep: Let It Happen
This acting class session focuses on the fundamental tension between allowing authentic moments to emerge versus forcing them through overthinking. Th...
Why Your Acting Choices Must Feed the Material
In this episode, Milton Justice explores the critical concept of matching your acting choices to the specific material you're working with. Using exam...
Filling The Choice
In this episode, Milton Justice explores why actors struggle to make choices substantial enough to serve their material. He contextualizes modern acti...
Playing Characters Beyond Your Experience
Milton and Kaleb explore how to authentically portray characters whose experiences are completely outside your own. They discuss the crucial role of s...
What Worked and What Didn't
Milton interviews student J.P. McCloskey about his off-Broadway experience in the Stephen Metcalfe play Strange Snow. J.P. identifies a major challeng...
Casting Directors Need to See This
Milton shares insights from a panel with top New York casting directors including Bernard Telsey and Billy Hopkins. The key revelation: casting direct...
Announcement!
The Actor Lab is an acting studio founded by industry veterans Milton Justice and Patrick Quagliano, and producer Walker Vreeland. The studio aims to...
What is Personalizing?
Welcome back to I Don't Need an Acting Class and our first episode of Season 8! In this first episode, we hear a coaching session between Milton and s...
Plays Are Difficult
In this bonus episode, Milton explores the fundamental challenges of theatrical performance. He begins by praising a student's vivid storytelling abou...
Bonus Ep: The Imaginary Vacation
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. We're so grateful for you. In honor of the holiday we're releasing some audio from 5 years ago, all about an exercise cal...
Season 7 is Wrapped!
But we still have a lot going on. Check out out website: www.idontneedanactingclass.com for all the latest events. Happy Holidays to all of you and we...
Avoid Boring Yourself to Death
In this episode, Milton discusses the importance of understanding specific relationships to text and sequence of thoughts. The discussion highlights a...
What Does That Mean
This episode delves into the importance of conveying big ideas in acting. Milton emphasizes the need for actors to grasp the magnitude of concepts in...
A Tear in the Curtain
You have to give yourself permission to fail. If you’re too afraid of being bad, you’ll block your creative energy. Like Venessa Redgrave, indulge you...
Everything Can Be Magical
Or we should say: everything must be magical. To YOU. This week’s episode is a lesson in connecting. We hear a student, Grace, go from “reporting” to...
Your Attitude Towards Your Partner
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The Acting Lie Detector
Talking out or improvising text helps us connect to what we’re talking out, sometimes by way of letting us know we are lying. In that sense, talking o...
Milton à Marseille
Milton will be teaching a week-long acting workshop at Clap Class in Marseille! The class will be held in English. Must have experience in film, telev...
Being Active Always
Two topics are covered in this episode: our tendency to be disconnected from what you’re talking about, and our tendency to be disconnected from what’...
I Have (Another Round of) Notes
Milton gives another round of notes to Chris who is doing a monologue from All My Sons.
I Have Notes: All My Sons
This week, Milton coaches Chris on a monologue from All My Sons. This episode is both audio and video. You can watch the video version on Spotify.
Looking for A Revelation
This week’s episode calls to mind the Steve Martin quote: “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” You want to make choices that are so inventive that they...
Robot Drama
In this longer-than-usual episode, Milton coaches the class through Jed’s audition for a TV series in which an out-of-control robot is stealing childr...
Wandering with The Rainmaker
In this episode, Milton begins talking through The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash. It’s an example of how we can begin working on a play by ourselves. T...
The Structure of Musicals
Two of Milton’s students are currently starring in an off-Broadway musical, and this week he discusses his recent work with them. He talks about the s...
You Can’t Take You Out of It
This episode gets back to the HUGE topic of using your own life, featuring an in-depth conversation amongst the class. It culminates with the followin...
Weird Actor Things
Let’s face it: acting is weird. So are actors. The issues we have…the circumstances we find ourselves in are unlike that of anyone else. Some examples...
Being a Pleasure to Work With
Even when you're getting bad direction, or someone in the cast inappropriately gives you notes... Even when you feel like you're the only one who know...
Ordinary People (In Extraordinary Circumstances)
Milton begins this week’s episode talking about a client whose personal life reflects the circumstances of the character he’s playing. It’s yet anothe...
Milton The Mechanic
Milton Plays A Car Mechanic
The point of this episode is that, while we always need to work hard to make our work believable and interesting, th...
The Nature of Modern Theater: An Analysis of Loose Ends
In this episode, we take a look at the play Loose Ends by Michael Weller. We do so through the lens of realism and the contribution that Ibsen, Strind...
Don't Say It Unless You've Built It
Whether it’s stage or screen, you have to be able to analyze the text to figure out what world you’re in, what’s going on with your character and how...
What Makes A Person
This week, Milton explores a few of the ways we can gain insight into character. We can observe a stranger on the street and then, using a specific ch...
Enlighten The Audience
We begin our 7th season with a call to save acting. Together, we can do it! One of the biggest elements that is missing in acting today is understandi...
Bonus Video Ep: How We Talk About Our Pain
In life, we usually don't relive a painful experience when we're talking about it. That doesn't mean it doesn't affect us. It's just that we're not ac...
Bonus Content for The Price of a Latee!
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There Is No One Secret to Acting
Season finale! The problem with trying to learn acting in a linear way is that no creative art is linear. You can’t fit a lifelong craft into one box...
Upcoming Spring Classes!
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