Acting Exercises for
the Lone Actor -
​Building your Acting and Improv Skill Set
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Lesson 1 - Intro to Voice
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​Acting coach Max Grimm gives you exercises and warm-ups to help strengthen your most important instrument - your voice. This is a great video to do prior to an audition or acting class to get your voice in shape. ​

Lesson 2 - Self with Self

Based on the work of Viola Spolin, Kelley guides you through this first exercise on how to feel your surroundings and stay in the present as an actor with a guided body check to explore how a character would react to their surroundings.

Lesson 3 - Finding Levels in Your Monologue

In this lesson, Kelley uses the improv exercise "Emotions" to help find levels in your monologue as she times you for a minute calling out different emotions. The first minute clock starts at 7:16 and the second one starts at 8:32 so you can time your piece a few times.

Lesson 4 - Subtle Character Traits

​In this segment - we look at how little verbal and non-verbal quirks traits can make your character more believable. Using acting traits used by Steve Carell, Leslie David Baker, John Krasinski, Jennifer Aniston, Kristin Stewart, Harrison Ford, and Jim Carrey, Kelley illustrates how these subtle quirks can make your acting more believable.

Lesson 5 - Actor Be Aware
​In this segment, we look at possible scams that actors can be subjected to like having a casting director or agent insist on paying for auditions or using exclusive photographers that cost you too much money. Also, talent and modeling agencies are inundated with people looking for representation. Reputable firms are not usually trying to recruit in shopping malls. So actors, be aware!
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