Dylan Brown
The fixation with performance has changed for many actors these days. Their view toward performance is less positive. It could relate to the constant exposure and pressure social media places on us, establishing the need for an end point. Being really really perfect. Craving some kind of unrealistic acceptance or praise from an audience of strangers. Sating lifelong inner needs the actor has. I think these perspectives around performing is misguided and eventually blocks the ease of the Player.
The art of acting is a way of life. It’s philosophy and the tools that are given to us by the great innovators aren’t meant for some endpoint relating to performance. These are tools, mechanisms to experience and live your life, by placing your artistry at the heart of your time here. Observe everything and be conscious of how landscapes affect you. Let your expressiveness be fully embodied. Realise obstacles make the aims you strive for more potent and dynamic. Challenges placed before you, if you investigate them, are more likely to create greater flow and presence in your life than disregarding them.
The art of acting is about creating characters of great depth, who have a strong connection to their world. If we are brave and trust the process it can also bring this quality of life to us.
Dylan Brown has worked on many television, film and theatre productions as an actor, including the BBC drama Being Human Luc Besson’s Unleashed, Free at the Royal National Theatre. At the Sheffield Crucible Theatre he played Puck in Michael Grandage’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and also appeared in Paul Miller’s Hamlet.
He has taught at many of the major drama schools in the UK and has provided workshops here and in Europe. He directing credits include Romeo and Juliet (featuring Anthony Howell) at The Drama Centre London, Accomplices by Simon Bent featuring John Simm and Andrew Lincoln at the Soho House London. He also directed Nevermind by Martin Sadofski, which featured Kevin Bishop, Claudie Blakley, Chris Coghill and Daniela Denby-Ashe. He also held the post of in house director and senior acting coach at the Oxford School of Drama for many years.
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