24 episodes
The Actor’s Mind Hosted by Kateri McRae and Anne Penner
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The Actor’s Mind is a new podcast hosted by Kateri McRae and Anne Penner that explores acting from a psychological perspective. We describe and discuss popular acting tools that are commonly used in actor training, rehearsals, and performances. Then we identify the parallel psychological processes that are likely in play when actors use these techniques. We discuss the success of these techniques from our own experience, as well as why they work given the evidence from psychology and neuroscience. Our guests are experts from the theater and science worlds: actors, directors, teachers, and psychological scientists, who add their expertise and experience to the conversation.
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Season 5 Episode 5: Kateri Interviews Anne
Kateri interviews Anne!
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Season 5 Episode 4: Anne Interviews Kateri
Anne has the enormous pleasure of interviewing her dear friend and podcast co-host Kateri McRae about her research, her passion for working with college students.
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Season 5 Episode 3: Creative Habit + Habit Formation
Anne and Kateri bust the myth of the muse and of spontaneous creative inspiration by exploring various tools to strengthen your creative habit. Kateri explains the neuroscience of habit formation; then both offer ways to increase your awareness and control over your productive creative habits and their obstacles.
Guest: Barret O’Brien, actor, writer, teacher
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Season 5 Episode 2: Public Solitude + Self-Consciousness
Anne and Kateri explore the old-school Stanislavski tool called Public Solitude, and then deep dive into an investigation of the psychological concept of Self-Consciousness.
Guest: Bella Merlin, actor, writer, professor
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Season 5 Episode 1: Actor Fear, Anxiety, Stress, and Coping
Anne discusses various fears and internal obstacles actors encounter; Kateri then defines anxiety and stress and explains the difference between the two. Then both Kateri and Anne offer ways of coping and combatting these common fears, anxieties, and stressors.
Guest: Dr. Michelle Rozenman, Assistant Professor in the clinical child psychology Ph.D. Program, who also directs the BRAVE Lab in DU's Department of Psychology. -
Season 4 Episode 4: The Space Between
Anne and Kateri discuss their reactions to the conversation with Dr. Danny McIntosh about different kinds of empathy, the space between actor and character, characters and other characters, and interdisciplinarity.