Actor Workshop @ NYU Tisch Asia

Today I attended what  I had initially thought to be an audition, at the campus of NYU Tisch Asia.  Though it turned out to be much more than expected.

See, it wasn't  a conventional audition. It was in fact a directing class for the graduate students of NYU. And the lesson, pertaining to the effective directing of actors during an audition, was conducted by award-winning Hollywood Director Rob Schmidt.

Rob and I have already met some months back when I acted for 2 of the NYU's student short films. One thing we have in common is that he too has a young daughter.

So anyway, after Rob and the students had done their directing 'exercise' with me, I was actually encouraged to stay on and just sit in as other actors came in for 'audition'. 2 other actors before me were already sitting in and I naturally wouldn't allow myself to miss out on this great opportunity.

2 more actors followed and then we were treated to this wonderful 20+ min shortfilm from the UK entitled 'Wasp'.

And with that, the lesson was over. Tomorrow, Rob is conducting another round of lessons for another group of students with different actors coming in. Guess what, today's actors are welcomed to sit in as well! 

No prizes for guessing where I'd be between 2 - 5 pm tomorrow. ;)

ps: The video below is one of the shortfilms I did with NYU mentioned earlier. Let me know what you think of it ok? :)

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgcZEzhIP6Q