In acting, behavior covers the entire canvas of human action from the myriad of facial expressions, body postures, quirks, jerks, tics, nods, turns, eye positions, pauses, tones of voice, sounds, timbre, and many other undefinable factions that encompass all the ways that human beings react under stimulus.

Relationship refers to those aspects of behavior that define how we treat or respond (emotionally and physically) to others. It is obvious that how we treat our Mother would be vastly different than how we would respond to a policeman.

Recently, there was an expose' article on the vile actions and cult creation of a woman named Michele Lonsdale Smith, revealing the incredible abuse she heaped on vulnerable actors in L.A., Vancouver, and many other locations in the world. Although her crimes were rather extreme, she is by no means the only teacher in L.A., and even Vancouver, who's methods border on sacrosanct.

Why do actors fear auditions? In a word, uncertainty. When I first came to Vancouver and got pressed into teaching by my agent, I started an audition skills class. It didn't take me long to figure out that the problem with almost every one of the actors in the class wasn't with their auditioning skills...

There is no difference in acting for theatre, film ,or tv; your job as an actor is exactly the same – creating truth under imaginary circumstances.

95% percent of what we do as actors is physical, and so before we learn our lines we need to figure out what we're gonna do with our bodies.

Los Angeles and Vancouver are the two most important cities for film making on the west coast, and, having worked for many years in both, I have detailed the five biggest differences between the two.