Jordan Beswick, C.S.A.

For those of you who don

One morning I was coaching a young man who had taken one of my intensive
acting workshops in Paris, when suddenly he said to me,

When the film version of Peter Hedges

Once during auditions for one of his plays, the multi-award winning playwright, Harvey Fierstein, stopped an actor mid audition from further massacring his text. When asked politely to stick to the lines, the young man fired back an impertinent,

When I was fifteen years old I spent an afternoon with, Bette Davis. A personal idol of mine. The afternoon was arranged by my grandfather, a carpenter who had worked for the movie studios in Los Angeles. He had made a great many friends along the way and one of them was close to the film star.

My grandfather loved that I wanted to be an actor. My parents did not.

My grandfather, I was to learn much later in life, attempted to help me by actually setting up several meetings for me with very influential people. My parents nixed them all.

My parents put every conceivable physical, emotional and psychological obstacle in my way to keep me from being involved in this business. A business that, in their opinion, is spiritually, morally and ethically bankrupt.

Another dream of mine was to live in New York. A city my parents found as repellent as my chosen profession. But they certainly aren

You have the right to ask questions.

The only stupid question is the un-asked one. If you don

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Whenever I teach classes or acting intensives, inevitably I will ask those in attendance to tell me something about themselves. A bit of information about their prior acting experience. Training, work. And the majority of the time I

After a long day of preparation and scheduling for M. Night Shyamalan

Recently, while in the midst of casting M. Night Shyamalan