When People Ask Me What My Job Is, I Say Without Hesitation: “I’m An Actor.”
As a graduate of the Evening Conservatory in 2022, my time at Atlantic provided an ideal environment to hone my craft, consolidate my skills, and springboard into the professional world. Prior to enrolling at Atlantic, as an actor with more than a decade of experience and training in academic and community theater, I realized that […]
“What comes from the heart, goes to the heart”
Every Monday at 5:30pm I enter the Google Building in New York City through a pair of gigantic glass double doors. This ritual upon first examination appears grossly quotidian, but upon further, much deeper reflection it occurs to me that there was I time I felt like buckling at the knees at the very thought […]
All That Exists is this Moment: My Time at Atlantic Acting School
All that exists is this moment: my time at Atlantic Acting School originally appeared in The Equity Magazine, December, 2018. The hustle and bustle of New York was the perfect backdrop for the intensity that was the 2018 Summer Intensive at the Atlantic Acting School. It was such beautiful opportunity to take a deep dive into the […]
By Training, I Learned to Trust
Alexandra Rigby is a recent graduate of Atlantic Acting School’s Full-Time Conservatory program. My time at Atlantic Acting School taught me many things, the most important of which was how to trust myself. I arrived with a partial scholarship and as a grant recipient of the American Australian Association’s Dame Joan Sutherland Fund. I had […]
Anna Chlumsky Talks Developing an Audition Prep Technique
Anna Chlumsky is a meticulous list-maker. From the way she approaches auditions to her methods for getting in the right headspace for her projects, the Emmy-nominated “Veep” actor has mastered the art of preparedness. Over the course of her career—she began as a child actor in the ’90s—she’s learned skills from training both in the […]