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The Actor’s Mind is a new podcast hosted by Kateri McRae and Anne Penner that explores acting from a psychological perspective. We describe and discuss popular acting tools that are commonly used in actor training, rehearsals, and performances. Then we identify the parallel psychological processes that are likely in play when actors use these techniques. We discuss the success of these techniques from our own experience, as well as why they work given the evidence from psychology and neuroscience. Our guests are experts from the theater and science worlds: actors, directors, teachers, and psychological scientists, who add their expertise and experience to the conversation.
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Kateri interviews Anne!
Anne has the enormous pleasure of interviewing her dear friend and podcast co-host Kateri McRae about her research, her passion for working with college students.
Anne and Kateri bust the myth of the muse and of spontaneous creative inspiration by exploring various tools to strengthen your creative habit. Kateri explains the neuroscience of habit formation; then both offer ways to increase your awareness and control over your productive creative habits and their obstacles.
Guest: Barret O’Brien, actor, writer, teacher
https://barretobrien.com
Anne and Kateri explore the old-school Stanislavski tool called Public Solitude, and then deep dive into an investigation of the psychological concept of Self-Consciousness.
Guest: Bella Merlin, actor, writer, professor
http://www.bellamerlin.com
Anne discusses various fears and internal obstacles actors encounter; Kateri then defines anxiety and stress and explains the difference between the two. Then both Kateri and Anne offer ways of coping and combatting these common fears, anxieties, and stressors.
Guest: Dr. Michelle Rozenman, Assistant Professor in the clinical child psychology Ph.D. Program, who also directs the BRAVE Lab in DU's Department of Psychology.
Anne and Kateri discuss their reactions to the conversation with Dr. Danny McIntosh about different kinds of empathy, the space between actor and character, characters and other characters, and interdisciplinarity.
Anne and Kateri talk about all sorts of things—mimicry, resonance, empathy, the power of theater, religious experiences, and more—with psychologist Dr. Danny McIntosh, who also has been Dean of DU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences for the past seven years.
Guest: Dr. Danny McIntosh
Kateri and Anne’s response to Episode 1.
Anne and Kateri interview three psychologists who have worked with actors in order to investigate how various psychological studies make sense of the acting process.
Guests: Dr. Thalia Goldstein, Dr. Denis Dumas, Dr. Peter Sokol-Hessner
Anne’s May 2020 interview with world-renowned voice teacher, Kristin Linklater, who passed away on June 5.
Guest: Kristin Linklater (https://www.linklatervoice.com/)
Kateri and Anne discuss actor mental health and emotional intelligence. Then they interview Ashley Hamilton, Executive Director of the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative.
Guest: Ashley Hamilton
Kateri and Anne discuss creativity, describe it as a three-step process, and explain the neuroscience behind it. Then Anne interviews Anne Bogart.
Guest: Anne Bogart (http://siti.org/blogs/anne-bogart)
Kateri and Anne take a deep dive into one of their favorite topics: emotions. Then Kateri interviews Dr. Ajay Satpute, an affective neuroscientist.
Guest: Dr. Ajay Satpute
Anne and Kateri discuss teaching theater online, and then Anne talks with guests about the pandemic’s impact on the Colorado theater community.
Guests: Lynne Collins, Anthony Powell, and Allison Watrous
Anne and Kateri discuss comedy and psychological theories of humor.
Guest: Jessica Robblee
Kateri and Anne discuss the acting tools of inner monologue and objects of attention as well as the psychological concepts of “top down” and “bottom up” modes of cognition.
Guests: Mare Trevathan and Rodney Lizcano
Anne and Kateri discuss the roles of actor, director, dramaturg, audience, and critic when discussing perspective on the process of rehearsing and performing a play, including giving and receiving feedback.
Guest: John Moore (http://mydenvercenter.org)
Casting + Personality Traits
Anne and Kateri discuss casting and personality traits.
Guest: Talleri McRae
Auditioning + Impression Formation
Anne and Kateri discuss Auditioning and Impression Formation.
Guest: Sylvia Gregory (http://sylviagregorycasting.com/)
Language + Psycholinguistics
Kateri and Anne discuss the power of language for an actor and the corresponding study of psycholinguistics.
Guest: Sabin Epstein
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