
Identify your artistic identity by outlining talent, technique, and temperament to define your professional persona. This clarity helps target suitable roles, handle rejection, and protect mental health.
Explore the five research questions—who is the author, why they wrote it, the times, and what it's about—to reveal the artistic truth. Feed the rehearsal process with discipline and curiosity.
Examine how inner and outer characteristics reveal and conceal a character. Through Lady Macbeth and methods like backstories and animal-based physical life, explore constructing the emotional life.
Explore given circumstances by defining where you are and when, treat the setting as a character, and use atmosphere from locations like antechambers to shape performance.
Focus on motivation behind every action, proving why you say or do each line, and connect the why to the character’s objective in collaborative rehearsal to deepen the work.
Hi, I am Tony Knight and having been head of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Australia for over 20 years, I had the pleasure of teaching some of the best Actors to come out of Australia. Including Cate Blanchett, Sam Worthington, Sarah Snook, Alex O’Loughlin and Miranda Otto.
I was educated at Sydney Grammar School and trained at the Drama Centre London, which includes in its alumni Colin Firth, Frances de la Tour, Paul Bettany, Penelope Wilton, Michael Fassbinder and Tom Hardy. Tony has considerable knowledge, experience and expertise as a professional acting teacher and director. Tony has been the Program Leader for the Musical Theatre (B.A. Hons.) course at the LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore, developing and implementing a new curriculum
This introductory course is a starting point for character development and will give you vital information on how to audition better and moreover to become a better actor.
We’ll be looking at: Research & Development, the 7 acting questions,Carl Jung 4 Human Aspects, Rudolf Laban’s 8 Working Actions and Actions and Objectives.
It is important to watch every lesson in order to get the most out of this course. There are materials to download and upon completion of the course you’ll have the opportunity to record a monologue and send to me to get feedback.
Please enjoy the course and I look forward to helping you with character development and watching your monologues.