Stephen Atkins 

Another summer is in the air. Pride is around the corner. A Summer of Bravery, Summer of Bedazzlement, a Summer of Belonging. In the 1980s and 90s, many of us lived in a strange double exposure. Like many other groups of people, we existed, but not in the stories our own culture told about itself. Mainstream film and television rarely reflected our lives unless we were jokes, victims, cautionary tales, or coded shadows at the edge of the frame. Meanwhile, outside the screen,

Now is the time that many students start their training journey by auditioning for schools. Here is some advice when you're looking around. Seek variety. Specialized training is not the only way. No single acting method is acting itself. A method is a telephone. It is the device actors, teachers, and directors use to speak to the art form. Stanislavsky, Meisner, Suzuki, Chekhov, Practical Aesthetics, Viewpoints, Grotowski, Strasberg, Adler, Hagen, Spolin, Lecoq: each offers

Intersection is a deeply human human trait. Not agreement. Not sameness. It's vitally important that different trajectories meet while remaining different. A rehearsal room works this way (when it's working). So does a city. So does a relationship. So does thought itself. The philosophers Deleuze and Guattari were drawn to these unstable meetings in their own ways. Their work resists the idea that identity, meaning, or culture should settle into fixed territories with defenda