Authenticity isn’t enough. We need freedom in actor training. | Hope Ward | TEDxRVA Youth

Hi, my name is Dr. . Hope Ruffen Ward and I am an actor, director, and playwright. I have been studying theater and music for as long as I have memory.And that memory is filled with anxiety, echoes of not belonging, and a remembrance of a faculty and a curriculum that asked me to change myself beyond the characters that I was playing. There are three main principles in actor training curriculum. Character analysis, speech and dialect, and voice for the actor.Character analysis teaches actors how to analyze ...