Denise Fujiwara: Butoh, Cycles, and the Art of Beginning Again
A scene repeats. The text returns, and so do the actions. Yet the character is going through the situation for the first time. As an actor, I am…
Martin Blais
Training
Anik Matern
I was looking for more freedom, sharper reflexes and greater ease in English. Improv with Anik Matern taught me above all to trust instinct and the present moment.
Shawn Baichoo
In stage combat, precision creates the illusion of danger. With Shawn Baichoo, I worked on timing, safety, partner awareness and the acting underneath the choreography.
Mélanie Pilon
What does my face communicate before I say a word? Mélanie Pilon’s Camera Acting I workshop helped me explore my natural casting and what the camera sees.
Denise Fujiwara
One question stays with me, and it connects directly to my work: how can genuine transformation happen when we already have our habits, our reflexes, and ways of…
Richard Jutras
Richard Jutras taught me to dig into a scene instead of looking too quickly for the “right way” to play it — a teacher shaped by more than…
Omnibus 2024 Intensive Summer Workshop
Two weeks learning to think with the body: Decroux mime, improvisation and physical theatre at École Omnibus, ending with a performance at Place des Spectacles.
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: Learning to Become a Text Detective
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: How the Technique Is Actually Trained
Inside Tom Todoroff’s Monday Workshop, the technique leaves the notes and becomes concrete work on text, body, voice and relationship.
Beyond the Guideposts: Relationship, Action, Presence and Danger in Todoroff’s Work
Beyond the Guideposts, the ideas in Tom Todoroff’s work that stayed with me: relationship, action, presence, vulnerability, danger and artistic culture.
Tom Todoroff
How I discovered Tom Todoroff’s approach, and what it changed in the way I read, prepare and approach text as an actor.
Lili Wexu
Some people teach us without ever having been our teachers. Lili Wexu is one of those people for me. I have never taken one of her classes or…
Jean Asselin
I am offering a rose that does not exist. The exercise belongs to what Jean Asselin calls figures of courtesy: I must look at my partner, shift my…
Réal Bossé
Making rather than waiting for emotion: three days of on-camera work with Réal Bossé, exploring the body, breath, action, scene partners and the joy of acting.