Acting Student News Today

Each month, student bloggers from all over the world share their experiences and tips for surviving the college years as theatre students over on our Student Center page. This past month, the bloggers wrote about their strategies for time management as a student and artists, and how they manage to get it all done. Check out excerpts from their advice here!

Actor came 40 years ago in the broadway hit that championship season when charles durning was 49 years old. the first thing that felt like success to him happened when he was 49 years old. as an acting student, he had been told he didnt have a chance of making it for three reasons. youre too short, youre too fat and you have no talent. and his laugh -- his laugh would make that story sound painless when he told it. as i learned today, he had more than his share of pain before becoming an actor, ...

Justice. i was lucky enough to hear his stories about show business, but there was so much more to his life, especially before show business. which i learned about only today reading his obituary, which rewrote my understanding of charles durning. i knew that he didnt make his professional debut as an actor until he was well into his 30s and that his big break as an actor came 40 years ago in the broadway hit that championship season when charles durning was 49 years old. the first thing that fe...

Minutes and i will pay you for your performance. you solve as many as you can. at the end of the 5 minutes i say stop count how many you got correctly. now that you know the number go to the back of the room and shred the piece of paper. tell me how nanny you got correctly. >> totally hon know shonor syst. you destroy the evidence. people reported average 6 problems. what people dont know in the experiment. we played with the shredder. it only shredded side of the page. we can find out how many ...

Problem 1 you know nobody solved everything. the second thing we did was we gave people all of the money up front they paid themselves. the minute he raised his hand you solved everything take the envelope and go home. you see someone cheat in an egregious way. >> lots of people copied him. one way is to say we proved to people in this experiment you can cheat and get away with it. the other thing the demonstration you told people people liked him for the same social group of cheating to which o...

I say, solve as many as you can in 5 minutes and i will pay you. you solve as many as you can. at 5 minutes, i say, stop. and count how many have you. now go to the back of the room and shred the paper. guand you shred the paper. and i say, tell me how many you got correctly. >> honor system? >> and you destroyed the evidence. people report 6 problems. what people dont know, we played with the shredder, stow only shreds the sides of the page, but the main body, we can jump in and find out how ma...

In 5 minutes and i will pay you. you solve as many as you can. at 5 minutes, i say, stop. and count how many have you. now go to the back of the room and shred the paper. guand you shred the paper. and i say, tell me how many you got correctly. >> honor system? >> and you destroyed the evidence. people report 6 problems. what people dont know, we played with the shredder, stow only shreds the sides of the page, but the main body, we can jump in and find out how many questions people solved. and ...

Time. but we dont give enough time. i say, solve as many as you can in 5 minutes and i will pay you. you solve as many as you can. at 5 minutes, i say, stop. and count how many have you. now go to the back of the room and shred the paper. guand you shred the paper. and i say, tell me how many you got correctly. >> honor system? >> and you destroyed the evidence. people report 6 problems. what people dont know, we played with the shredder, stow only shreds the sides of the page, but the main body...

>> and you are working on problem 1, you know that nobody solved everything. the second thing we did, we gave people the money up front and they paid themselves from an envelope. the moment he raised his hand. you solved everything, take the envelope and go home. now you see somebody cheat in an egregeious way. what happens? lots of people copy him. one way is to say, we proved to people that you can cheat and get away with it. the other thing is to say that in the demonstration, you told people...

Solved everything. the second thing we did, we gave people the money up front and they paid themselves from an envelope. the moment he raised his hand. you solved everything, take the envelope and go home. now you see somebody cheat in an egregeious way. what happens? lots of people copy him. one way is to say, we proved to people that you can cheat and get away with it. the other thing is to say that in the demonstration, you told people that if people are in the same social group are cheating....