Sonya Cooke

The Fourth Pillar, Emotional Life, is the heart of the system. Like a heart, it is the most integral and elaborate of systems, requiring...

The magical thing about human nature is that the same event can happen to two people and it will be received and responded to...

BUILDING A STRUCTURE “If you build it, he will come.” ---Field of Dreams If Contact is the foundation, then Circumstances are the walls...

My students' constant requests to read more about The Seven Pillars of Acting Technique, is now answered! Over the next several weeks, I...

"The purpose of Art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by answers." ---James Baldwin “I don’t know,” can be a powerful...

It's sad, but true that very often your working relationship with your scene partner is not productive, pleasant, creative, or enjoyable....

My first acting coach, Jo Spiller, who began training me when I was sixteen, taught me many incredible lessons. I owe a large part of my...

We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;—...

We are not all that honest. Consider your life: How often are you fully candid about how you feel? Are you aware of how you edit your...

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” ---James A. Garfield Being truthful is an action. Truth demands...