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Amazing Acting Teacher Lynette Sheldon Returns To Sydney

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Mitch

These past few months, I once again got the privilege of working with the amazing and inspiring acting teacher, Lynette Sheldon. Previously, she has worked with well-known Australian stars such as Zoe Ventoura (Packed To The Rafters) and Dichen Lachman … Continue reading →

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Give My Regards To Broadway

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Mitch

New York is an amazing city for anyone. It has so much to offer. For an artist, it is one of the most exciting cities in the world. I recently took a little trip back to one of my favorite … Continue reading →

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Working With Pinter, A Man of the Theatre

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Mitch

There was a program on ABC a few months ago called Working With Pinter which I recorded and finally got to watch the other day. And I’m grateful I did. It was a program about Harold Pinter, one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Acting, Reviews | Tagged ABC, act, acting, Actor, actors, audience, awards, Betrayel, British, British playwrights, candid, collaboration, collaborative, community, creative, dialogue, directors, emotions, entertain, experience, film, film community, grateful, Harold Pinter, industry, influential, influential British playwrights, inspiring, instinctual, instinctual process, interviews, intuitive, lifetime, literature, man of the theatre, modern times, most intelligent groups of people, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize for Literature, Pinter, plays, playwright, process, program, read a book, recorded, respect for actors, scenes, self discovery, special parts, stories, subtext, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming, theatre, theatre and film, theatre and film community, trained, watch, well known plays, won, Working With Pinter, writers | Leave a comment

Tomorrow When The War Began: Does it represent the best of Australian Film?

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Mitch

I first read the Tomorrow When The War Began series early in high school. It was one of the most exciting collection of books I’d read. The story was brilliant. 7 teenagers living in rural New South Wales head out … Continue reading →

Posted in Acting, Reviews | Tagged 14 years, 50 years, acting, action, action film, Actor, actors, adventurous, Asian, audience, Australia, Australian, Australian film, Australian film and television industry, Australian story, Australian writer, believable, books, budget, bush, Caitlin Stasey, camp, car jacking, casting, Casting Director, casting directors, character, characters, Chinese, Chinese restaurant, Chinese tea, Chris Pang, clichéd, clichés, collection, compelling, country, Deniz Akdeniz, development process, dialogue, director, directors, drama, Ellie Linton, epic, exciting, feature, feature length, film, film's, filmmakers, foreign force, funding, general public, genres, great film, great films, Greek, Greek character, high, high budget, high intensity, high school, high stakes, home, Home and Away, Homer Tannos, industry, Kevin Holmes, Lee, Lee Takkam, Lincoln Lewis, minorities, multi-cultural, multi-cultural nation, nation, Neighbours, New South Wales, novel, piano, played, plays, population, profile, read, represent, rev-head, rural, scene, scenes, script, series, shot, soap, soap star, special effects, stereotyped characters, stereotypes, stories, story, Stuart Beattie, studio, studios, style, teen soap, teenage, teenagers, television, telling, Tomorrow When The War Began, tone, turnover, tv, tv shows, virtuoso, war, war drama, writer, writer/director | 3 Comments

Broadway Smash-Hit, August:Osage County Comes To Sydney

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Mitch

What do you get when you mix an incredible script with an amazing, world-renowned theatre company? August: Osage County. Last week I went to see this Tony Award-Winning Broadway smash for the third time (I saw it twice on Broadway … Continue reading →

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Cameron Mackintosh’s Miss Saigon: A Wonderful Journey

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Mitch

When I heard that Cameron Mackintosh’s Miss Saigon was coming to Australia, I was immediately excited. Here was a show that I grew up with and knew quite well. I had seen the Australian production that was on at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Acting, Stories | Tagged acting, Actor, animated, Asian, audience, audition, Australia, Australian, British, business, callback, Cameron Mackintosh, Capitol Theatre, career, cast, Choreographer, computer, costume, creative, creative team, crew, director, drinks, ensemble, Eurasian, food, Geoffrey Garratt, GI 9, God Why, helicopter, Her Majesty's Theatre, Hotel, international, Kim, Laurence Connor, lead, material, Melbourne, Miss Saigon, Mitchell Winter, numbers, Opening Night, panel, party, previews, process, produced, production, rehearsal, set, show, singing, Sofitel, soldier, stagecraft, Surry Hills, Sydney, teching, Thai, theatre, Thomas Mann, Thuy, US, Why, workshop | Leave a comment

Acting Training with Lynette Sheldon

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Mitch

Earlier this year I had the privilege of working with a fantastic acting teacher called Lynette Sheldon. Originally from Australia, she went to New York and trained extensively with the likes of Stella Adler and Larry Moss. She has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Acting | Tagged acting, Actor, actress, Australia, coach, director, discovery, exercise, exercises, experience, Larry Moss, Los Angeles, Lynette Sheldon, magic, Neil Labutte, New York, perform, play, process, Reasons To Be Pretty, scene, script, Stanislavsky, Stella Adler, Sydney, teacher, training | Leave a comment

Dustin Hoffman Inside The Actor’s Studio

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Mitch

The other day I watched for the first time Dustin Hoffman’s Inside The Actor’s Studio. What an amazing human being! So dedicated to the craft of acting. And such an incredible and diverse body of work. He was so open … Continue reading →

Posted in Acting, Reviews | Tagged Academy Award, achieve, acting, Actor, Actor's Studio, AFI, All The President's Men, Award, BAFTAs, Benjamin Braddock, California, Dustin, Dustin Hoffman, Emmy Award, Gene Hackman, Golden Globes, Hoffman, Hook, Inside The Actor's Studio, Kramer vs. Kramer, Life Achievement Award, Los Angeles, Los Angeles High School, Marathon Man, Meet The Fockers, Midnight Cowboy, Mike Nichols, Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium, Nelson Mandela, New York, ooooh, Pasadena Playhouse, Rainman, Santa Monica, Santa Monica College, success, talented, The Graduate, Tootsie, work | Leave a comment

Growing Up Eurasian In Australia

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Mitch

I was born in Sydney, Australia. The product of an Australian born Chinese father and a mother of Irish and Norwegian decent. My father was a restaurateur. He ran a restaurant called Chopsticks that was initially started by my grandfather … Continue reading →

Posted in Stories | Tagged Actor, anniversary, Asian, Australia, background, banquet, birthday, Cantonese, China, Chinese, Chopsticks, ethnic, Eurasian, food, gift, Hapkido, industry, Irish, Karate, Mandarin, Norwegian, professional, restaurant, restaurateur, Sydney, Team Asia, types, wedding | Leave a comment

Auditioning for Disney’s The Lion King

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Mitch

I was 17 years old. My first year out of school. I was training at NIDA(National Institute of Dramatic Art) in the Singer Dancer Actor course. My experience to this point had been limited. Mainly just high school productions and … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Actor

Amazing Acting Teacher Lynette Sheldon Returns To Sydney

Give My Regards To Broadway

Working With Pinter, A Man of the Theatre

Tomorrow When The War Began: Does it represent the best of Australian Film?

Broadway Smash-Hit, August:Osage County Comes To Sydney

Cameron Mackintosh’s Miss Saigon: A Wonderful Journey

Acting Training with Lynette Sheldon

Dustin Hoffman Inside The Actor’s Studio

Growing Up Eurasian In Australia

Auditioning for Disney’s The Lion King

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