As a young actor in my early twenties I was consistently compared to a young Marlon Brando. For me Marlon Brando was and is the Buddha of acting. Looking back, while I deeply appreciate that comparison, what I bring to my craft as an actor is unique to me and the talent I’ve been fortunate to be gifted and entrusted with.
For the past twenty years I’ve taught sold-out workshops, with my wife, Michelle, in helping talent in the industry — actors, writers, directors, casting directors — have more success with a greater sense of well-being. At its inception it was called Acting Success Now and soon after became known as Inside Game — Go In and You Win! Michelle and I were also popular guest speakers at SAG–AFTRA during this period.
These past eleven years I’ve taught, and continue to teach, a pioneering approach to acting I call, The Art of Not Acting. Along with the great talent in my classes I coach some wonderful actors for projects — Bob Wisdom in Dark Wolf being one. Working with actors in this capacity has kept my own acting abilities and talent highly toned and refined.
This along with years of life experience has brought me to a depth of understanding humanity — its complexities and its spirit — in ways I could have never imagined. All of the above makes it an energizing time to be the actor I am today.
Ten years ago I did a number of private sessions under the brilliant eye of the late acting coach, Harold Guskin. After the very first scene I read for him he said, “You should be working all the time.” It wasn’t the time for that to happen just yet. It is now.
