Welcome to Bruce Hermann Acting.com
Welcome to the website for brucehermannacting.com. If you are looking for the right acting teacher or class, are interested in exploring acting technique, or are hoping to find a bit of guidence about how to approach your craft, this site will offer some information about my background, training, teaching philosophy, career experience, and the classes I am offering. Thank you for your interest.
Overview:
Although the foundation of my work remains the Meisner Technique, I welcome students from any course of study into my classes. All acting, all art for that matter, is about trying to bring something to life. I do not hope to create Meisner actors...there is no such thing. There is only acting. Your acting is either alive or it is nothing.
There is no acting technique that works for everyone. You are seeking an effective means to bring your work to life. That may be helped along by a certain technique; but much more important to your articulation of process may be how well you communicate with a given teacher. I have been teaching successfully for twenty-two years. I understand what is possible, understandable, and doable with acting. (and what is a waste of time) and I work to clarify that personally for you. I also understand that it only matters if YOU discover it. No one can discover it for you. You need a teacher who is going to invest in your discovery process.
I am an actor who teaches. Over the twenty-plus years I have taught, I have also worked continuously as an actor and director. One can only teach what one knows. I have created some seventy-five roles on stage and directed over thirty plays. I have explored many different techniques and although classwork has been essential to my artistic growth, acting for performance has been the experience from which I have learned the most. I have studied with many different teachers and I have always gained the clearest understanding of acting from the teachers who have worked consistently throughout their artistic lives and who could relate what goes on in the classroom to the job of the actor. I understand the experience of learning, of classwork, of auditioning, and of being directed. I know about fear of risk and failure. I know how difficult it is and how much courage it takes to pursue this life. I also know how incredibly satisfying this life can be. Make sure you study with a teacher who works. It will make a huge difference in how you learn to act.
I know that all of us are concerned with our effectiveness in the marketplace. I also know that I have long been consumed with the idea of acting as an art form. When an actor has made habit his technique, gained experience and expertise, remained as passionate for playing as a twenty-year old in their first scene opening up their soul for the world to see, and has done...all...the...homework, there is, in the acting itself, the great satisfaction. Your work is tremendously satisfying. It is this satisfaction that makes your career, your life. The money is always nice...but acting well is...sublime.