Actors have secrets to share with writers I studied acting in Los Angeles in my early twenties and I went on to found and serve for five years as creative director of a nonprofit theater. One of my primary motivations was to learn about conflict, pacing and dialogue as actors embodied the words in my plays and the work of other playwrights. At the acting studio where I studied, the teacher drew techniques from the system developed by Konstantin Stanislavsky (also spelled Stanislavski) that gained prominence in America in the 1930s, known as “the method.” The method technique in a …
Building Complex Characters: Actors Teaching Writers
