Comments on: Doing What Is Difficult

By: Ty Unglebower

Ty Unglebower — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:36:52 +0000

Thank you for your interest. If you subscribe to my blog at http://www.offbook.blogspot.com/ you will receive all updates pertaining to when and where I will next be performing, as they happen.

By: Mark Lee Adams

Mark Lee Adams — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:01:59 +0000

I would like to see you perform. Please let us know when you’re in a production.

Mark Lee Adams
Actor|Director|Reviewer

By: Ty Unglebower

Ty Unglebower — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:45:14 +0000

I don’t consider challenge and comfort to be mutually exclusive. People meet their challenges best when they are in a comfortable environment, and the director is the one that needs to provide it, of course. But we don’t always have control over our directors one way or the other, and my point is to be proud of whatever you have overcome as an actor, great or small, in order to be committed to excellence in the show you find yourself in.

Thanks for your comments.

By: Steven Mayfield

Steven Mayfield — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:09:06 +0000

I see where you’re coming from and, insofar as that, I agree (and commend you for it). My question would be aimed at the director in your hypothetical situation.

It is incumbent upon an good director to balance what’s good for the show against what’s good for his cast. One of the jobs of the director is to make his cast feel comfortable. Yes, they need to be challenged. But — if they cannot be made to feel comfortable, it will inhibit their creativity.

The best, most creative flow can only be achieved when everyone feels comfortable.