Blog 8 - Research and Working EQ

1. What is your working EQ?

• What are the best ways an actor/actress can effectively build character to engage their audience?

2. What is a possible answer to your working EQ?

• What are the best ways an actor/actress can effectively build character to engage their audience?
• By thoroughly researching and reading over the script to find the basic facts about the character, to then be able to use the imagination to build on the basic facts.

3. What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?

• "Stella Adler: The Art of Acting" has been extremely helpful. This book is a compilation of Stella Adler's (one of the most important theatre teachers in american theatre history) lessons/teachings. Her methods are very insightful and very trustworthy since she studied under the great Constantin Stanislavsky.

4. Who is your mentor, or where are you doing your mentorship, and how does what you're doing relate to your EQ?

• My mentor is Julian C. White, a college theatre professor at CalPoly Pomona. He is not only a professor, but also an actor and director. My mentorship relates to my EQ because by helping with with all of the plays he's working on, I will gain more knowledge on many aspects of the world of acting. One of these aspects is character building effectively.