Hello, my fellow artists! My penultimate blog entry of 2023 is here. One more to go after this! My scene from “Yellowstone” went up this past Thursday in the Richard Lawson Studios scene study class…and it went great! It was my first scene back on a stage and as a returning student in the Thursday class (remember, I did a scene from “Beverly Hills Cop 2” on November 7th in Kelly Tighe’s scene study class which takes place over Zoom.) It was a wonderful and solid first take that I am very proud of. My scene partner (Beth Berlin) and I delivered our product. We put in 20 hours of rehearsal into this first take, plus additional hours of our own individual work into this scene. I played Jamie. Beth played Beth 🙂
It felt great to be back on stage. It felt great to articulate what I was working on and to see it manifest and translate on stage. I’m honored to understand and apply an approach and nomenclature. Richard gave me a great assessment that started with how long it had been since I last put up a scene, why I took a break from class, my commitment and belief with acting, and the importance of Plan A vs. Plan B. And it culminated with him saying that he is certain that I am committed to my acting, to class, and to my journey. He then proceeded to assess my work in the scene and how he saw everything that I worked on. He also loved our fight choreography, which made us so thrilled because we worked so hard on it (the repetition of it, understanding the angles and lines of stage fights, why we are fighting, the progression and chapters of this fight, the story of this fight.) He said it was incredibly believable and violent. Richard said many wonderful things to Beth and I during our assessment, and we are excited to do a second take of our scene! Keep reading below 🙂
And going back to how he started his assessment with me, I am thrilled to look at what 2024 is going to be about for me as an artist.
Chasing The George 