
Jess Greenberg
Three takes, two rounds of direction and one simple rule: everything around a self-tape should serve the acting. My workshop with casting director Jess Greenberg.


Three takes, two rounds of direction and one simple rule: everything around a self-tape should serve the acting. My workshop with casting director Jess Greenberg.

The 15 Guideposts of Shurtleff and Todoroff as text-analysis tools for becoming a better text detective without turning the scene into a classroom exercise.

Inside Tom Todoroff’s Monday Workshop, the technique leaves the notes and becomes concrete work on text, body, voice and relationship.

Beyond the Guideposts, the ideas in Tom Todoroff’s work that stayed with me: relationship, action, presence, vulnerability, danger and artistic culture.

How I discovered Tom Todoroff’s approach, and what it changed in the way I read, prepare and approach text as an actor.