David August

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Actor. Writer. May have been in that thing you saw that one time (Dependent's Day, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Second City/Chicago Shakespeare).

https://linktr.ee/davidaugust

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on material they're going to play, and explored how it can go viscerally. How much space you take up and how hard you metaphorically push the other characters can transform how you do what you do.
#ActingCoach #ActingCoaching

07:43 PM - Apr 18, 2024

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Just worked with an #acting #coaching client on a role they're playing soon, and working lines to see what can be "said" beyond, within, in addition, with and through the words as written. Cool clarifying specifics. Seeing them finding the performance and discovering was great. #ActingCoach

07:45 PM - Apr 11, 2024

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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on material for a callback (that I am very proud of them for getting), and got into the balance of doing what the audition was and still evolving and being ready to take notes and redirects.

07:12 PM - Mar 28, 2024

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Coached an actor on a self-tape, and watching them find the character, and hone in on the how and what of them, was really cool. The specifics shined brighter and brighter on each take.
#ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #acting #coaching #actor #actors #selftape #audition #coach

07:23 PM - Mar 26, 2024

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Just wrote and scheduled 10 more posts for twitter, one a week. I now have things covered through the end of May.

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You can transition away too. I use Buffer, but other scheduling options exist too.

02:59 PM - Mar 25, 2024

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12:49 PM - Mar 25, 2024

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Just worked with an #acting #coaching client on what broadly is their process working with new material, like what sequence to generally follow and what areas to address. 1 of 2

05:16 PM - Mar 21, 2024

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Just submitted a sketch about President Cleveland coming out of retirement to be a running mate for 45. In doing research for it I have at least tripled my knowledge of Grover Cleveland 😝
#SketchComedy #sketch #comedy #funny #GroverCleveland #screenwriting #screenwriter #writer #writing

09:18 PM - Mar 19, 2024

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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on the intersection of concentration and finding your character in the other actor, from how they affect you. Facing uncertainty with courage is often a key piece of work that works well.
#ActingCoach #ActingCoaching

07:25 PM - Mar 07, 2024

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Just worked with an #acting #coaching client on exploring the options the words on the first line of a speech can give. The mileage, so to speak, one can get with each syllable so the utterance is coming from deep within and expressing what must be said.
#ActingCoach #ActingCoaching

07:29 PM - Feb 29, 2024

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Just worked with a #voice #actor #coaching client and discussed putting time, energy and money into pay-to-play audition websites vs. putting that same time, energy and money into creating a project oneself.

05:26 PM - Feb 22, 2024

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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on a #monologue . Explored assumptions the #character brings of how safe or fraught the world is. Chilling and thrilling to see how assumptions not found on the page transform the reality of the speech.
#ActingCoach #ActingCoaching

07:33 PM - Feb 15, 2024

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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on a role whose psyche is fragmenting. As fiction, it's a safe place to connect with frightening and damaging impulses; the shroud of it not being real helps consequences of what the character experiences harm less.

07:31 PM - Feb 08, 2024

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Just #coached a #voice #actor on a piece of text that happily was written to allow for great options, depth and cool choices to be made. Exploring them in both thought and performance it was great to hear them find new versions as they played it.

06:03 PM - Feb 08, 2024

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13.3K Posts, 749 Following, 3.58K Followers · Actor. Writer. May have been in that thing you saw that one time (Dependent's Day, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Second City/Chicago Shakespeare). Vaccinated and boosted.  ORCID: 0000-0002-8304-5874   #actor #writer #actingcoach #producer #director #Shak..

01:01 PM - Feb 05, 2024 (Edited)

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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on how to first approach a new role. It is good to have a working process, a template, a method: they're all different words for the same thing. Also vital to not be rigid with the way you work.
#ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #process #techniques #method

08:19 PM - Jan 25, 2024

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Worked with a #voice #acting #coaching client on drilling into a piece of the material, getting very granular, and then zooming back out to see the whole piece with with those new options and ideas being part of it. Great to hear their work deepen and work well.
#ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #vo

05:21 PM - Jan 23, 2024

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Seems Casting Networks, Breakdown Services, Backstage, Casting Frontier & more need to change, or the wrath of SAG-AFTRA comes next. Unions work.

Alone we beg, together we bargain.

https://deadline.com/2024/...
#acting

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SAG-AFTRA Puts Casting Websites On Notice For Charging Fees To Actors – Deadline

SAG-AFTRA Puts Casting Websites On Notice For Charging Fees: "Performers Must Have A No-Cost Method To Submit Themselves"

02:48 PM - Jan 20, 2024

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Worked w/an #acting #coaching client on a template for how to approach any new character. Every new role kinda requires we learn how to act all over again, because we've never played the role before as we will right now. We just get better at learning how to act all over again each time we do it.

07:19 PM - Jan 18, 2024

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Explored with an #acting #coaching client some ways to develop how a character speaks. For both #VoiceActing and all other acting, things like placement, imitations or other stuff can be a springboard for how our characters use their #voice and carry with them who they are and where they've been.

07:31 PM - Jan 11, 2024

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With an #acting #coaching client just explored building a #character that isn't just an echo of the text in question. And seeing the levels grow aside from what the material gave was really cool. The character is not only on the page.
#ActingCoach #ActingCoaching

07:23 PM - Dec 28, 2023

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Worked with a #VoiceOver #acting #coaching client on the subtleties of keeping things conversational whether or not the copy is conversational. Good to hear and explore how they can still bring a point of view to bear, or not, and adjust things without being too heavy handed.

05:25 PM - Dec 28, 2023

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Worked with an #acting #coaching client on a #comedic scene, and exploring the options in a single line. The writers gave gifts, like words that are just funny to say. We also touched on mustering concentration even when tired.
#ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #comedy #actors

06:42 PM - Dec 04, 2023

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Worked with an #acting #coaching client just now, as they did their first take of material they now have #OffBook . The joy of finding the rich ways the scene goes now that the words are undeniably more than on paper makes me happy.
#ActingCoach #ActingCoaching #memorization

07:19 PM - Nov 30, 2023

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Just worked with an #acting #coaching client on #voiceover , & explored 3 different techniques to generate different deliveries: physicality, objectives & inner life. Seeing these versions inform a fourth read was very satisfying.
#VoiceActing #ActingCoach #ActingCoaching

05:12 PM - Nov 30, 2023

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I just finished this article. I think many are underestimating just how impactful this SAG-AFTRA tentative agreement can be: https://bit.ly/DominionOve...
#ActorsStrike #SAGAFTRAStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #UnionStrong #TentativeAgreement #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #automation #UBI #unions

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Dominion Over the Machines. all humans may have more control of how… | by David August | Nov, 2023 | Medium

For I believe the first time in human history, a labor union contract says both workers are human, and also the union shall negotiate with the employer before a non-human substitute is used. That is…

05:13 PM - Nov 28, 2023

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Just worked w/an #acting #coaching client on 3 different techniques to build a character & scene, & had them experience how all 3 in different ways enhance physicality, objectives & the character's inner experience. So cool to see them tap into their instincts in new ways.

05:22 PM - Nov 27, 2023

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The CEOs Are Why There’s No Finalized Contract to Read for SAG-AFTRA:

Read the article here: https://bit.ly/CEOsDelaySA...
#ActorsStrike #SAGAFTRAStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #UnionStrong #u1 #contract #TentativeAgreement #ratification

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The CEOs Are Why There’s No Finalized Contract to Read for SAG-AFTRA | by David August | Nov, 2023 | Medium

I probably shouldn’t post this. I might even want to delete it soon. If the CEOs knew I existed, they might not like me for this. But I’m just asking questions because this is irritating me: A…

02:49 PM - Nov 19, 2023

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I wrote Where You Started Is Where You Ended Up and it's published on Medium at: https://bit.ly/StartedWher...
#short #poetry #stagnation #growth

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Where You Started Is Where You Ended Up | by David August | Nov, 2023 | Medium

And just like that, they were back where they started. Maybe with more insights and despair, and perhaps a better understanding of where was here and where here had been all along. But something…

05:50 PM - Nov 17, 2023

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Is the SAG-AFTRA Tentative Agreement Supposed to Save Us From AI? It only needs to do its part.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/AIcontractS...
#ActorsStrike #SAGAFTRAStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #UnionStrong #u1 #movies #tv #film #television #entertainment #contract

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Is the SAG-AFTRA Tentative Agreement Supposed to Save Us From AI? | by David August | Nov, 2023 | Medium

“This tentative agreement’s AI sections turn every role into a role that will kill your career forever because you either agree to let them use AI with you, or they won’t cast you, and if you do…

03:47 AM - Nov 17, 2023

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