Tag: Acting
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The Beauty of Playing to Type in Larp
This blog discusses why it’s actually good to play similar characters and how to create around your favorite character traits.
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Permission to Grieve (in Gaming…)
(Cover photo by Bret Lehne at Inside Hamlet 2017, Run 2.) This blog is a touch more personal than I usually write, but sometimes the personal can help you reflect on things professionally. I hope people take the lesson from this that I did, and my own reflections help others see their work and ability…
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Meyerhold Onto That Feeling
(This is an old post from an old, old blog I used to run. It seemed quite relevant to my work nowadays, so I wanted to repost things here. Written by Ericka Skirpan, 2013) It has always been important to me, as a gamer and a storyteller, to live in the moment. Now, you may…
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Method Acting vs. LARPing: A Dangerous Mix
I’m going to preface this post by saying I have a BFA in theater, have been acting (and studying various forms of ‘method’) for 25 years, was a director for 10 years, and have a lot of LARP feelings about this. What Americans recognize as ‘Method Acting’ nowdays is not something that can or should…
The Space Between Stories 