Seth Barrish is a successful actor, director, acting coach, and co-founder of theater company the Barrow Group. In his book, “An Actor’s Companion,” he strives to extend 25 years of knowledge and experience to others.
What classes are offered at the Barrow Group?The ones that I teach are script analysis classes, directing classes—which are built for directors and actors working with directors—and Shakespeare. I do a lot of teacher training. The school sort of exploded in growth the last three years. People seemed to catch on that we were doing this, and all of a sudden the floodgates opened. It’s thriving right now and we have people come in from all over the world. I supervise the curriculum. I never feel like it’s my goal or job to dismantle how an actor works. I simply am offering tools for them to play with, and they’ll pick or choose what tools they like, what tools work for them and what tools don’t.
What should actors be aware of when auditioning?I find, a lot of times, that we care too much. We try to be so perfect, and it’s important to let ourselves be imperfect and actually not care so much. You hear people talk about how the job they got was the one they
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