An Idiot’s Guide to Acting

Lee Samuel Wilson
Life and the Performing Arts
4 min readFeb 20, 2024

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The six practical foundational skills to make you a better actor.

Photo by Allec Gomes on Unsplash

Do you see this chair? This is a chair doing a perfect performance of a chair. No more and no less. Acting is so easy, yet we make it so complicated. My main criticism of actors of all ages and all experiences is that many of them perform too much. We will all walk away after seeing them thinking, “Wow, that was a great performance!” But when you dig…

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Lee Samuel Wilson
Life and the Performing Arts

Actor, artistic director, director, professor, & text and voice coach. I work with actors, business leaders, lawyers, and politicians to unlock speech.