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Should I leave school to become an actress? What are other ways to learn acting? please help!?

  • I am 21 and currently attending community college as a theatre major in NYC and will be attending a 4 year college that has a theatre program and puts on alot of productions so I can start somewhere. I also have zero acting experience not even from high school cause we didn't have a drama club. To get to my point I have been studying acting for about a year and I feel I am not growing as an actress. I don't know what it is, but I feel a VERY important component is missing in my training that I feel I am not growing as an actress. Last year I had an Acting I coach who never gives much feedback or criticism she would leave it to the class to critique my performance and most of it was filled with mostly inexperienced performed and the other small percentage were expereinced. I think its fair to say she had favoritism and would spend her time working with more experienced actors than those were beginners. It was VERY obvious to the other students that us beginner actors did not matter and she didn't even bother to work with us to get us a decent level. Currently, I'm in an Acting II class and my passion for acting is beginning to die down (not where I want to quit its more frustration), because I feel like my acting professors do not take their acting classes seriously. I'm VERY serious about learning how to become a better actress, but I feel like no one cares as much as I do. I even feel like the other students don't care because they tend to show up late alot, but in my opinion I think they are really good and better than me here I am on time EVERYDAY, never absent and always reading the script and I'm tying to become as good as them. I have yet to reach that "acting zone" and STAY in it, but I know its inside of me because I think I've felt it once before and its feels like an unstoppable experience and the only people that exist on that stage at that moment is your character and the other actors character that you are talking to. It's like only the actors reality exist and it feels amazing! I don't know if this helps, but I consider myself to be a more hands on learner and once I read a full script and perform a monologue for that character I'm in THEIR world. For example I read the play The Crucible and had to perform a monologue from it and got ALOT of positive feedback because I am familiar with the play and I know what's going on with the character and what she wants. Could that be the problem? Most of the work that he's given us to practice are excerpts from plays and we just have to randomly imagine how the scene might go. Should I just start going out and auditioning for plays? Should I leave college and attend a professional acting conservatory. It's just I don't feel worthy enough to even go to an audition and waste the directors time. There are actors that are better than me and I don't want to hold the production back with my inexperience. I don't expect to get lead right off the bat, but I don't feel like I am on a decent performing level. What should I do? I really do love acting and would love to pursue it for the rest of my possible if possible, but it's just I feel like no one is meeting me halfway and realize how important this is to me.

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    what youre really asking is should i leave school to become a waitress since thats what happens to about 90% of people and they never do make it into acting

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I think most actors have this exact question. If you ask 20 accomplished actors how they finally 'made it' you will probably get 20 different answers. Every person is different and learn different ways. Some people respond well to learning in a university setting, other people don't. You have to know what works best for you. Based on what you're saying, a conventional class doesn't seem to suit you. I would say try and get an acting coach, or take acting classes somewhere. Big universities that teach acting doesn't make good actors. In fact, that atmosphere can sometimes stifle creativity.

David

take some real professional acting classes. a good instructor will let you know if you have enough talent to get anywhere at acting or if your wasting your time. you don't need years of training to start this. take acting classes and when you have learned how to audition for things and can give a reasonably good audition, look for open calls to audition for. local theater and student and ind. films are open calls you can get yourself on. as far as just acting goes a degree is not going to guarantee you anything and there are quicker cheaper ways to per sue acting than waiting on a degree before you can do anything.

R K

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