Author: Celia

Honest Animation

When an actor is genuinely engaged, her facial expressions and gestures come from her inner experience. I call this Honest Animation. It’s not imposed from the outside. It’s not just the actor’s natural performance mode. The expressions seem to spin from the inner agitation. The actor genuinely feels the desire and frustration of the character’s predicament and her gestures and facial expressions pop off of that Engagement.



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Levin Valayil

in a leading role in “The Fabulous Lipitones” at Virginia Rep
October 2015

Additional Resources

Need a vocal coach for singing? Speaking, accent reduction or dialects? Need a good headshot photographer?

Here’s are some of the best:

I do not receive kick-backs from any of these professionals. I recommend them because they get dramatic results.

– Robert McCaskill

Kimberly Stern – Singing Teacher / Vocal Coach

I’ve been sending her actors for years.



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