First Entry!
Hi! Welcome to my blog,
I’ve been training as an actor at WAAPA for the past three years in Perth. In that time I’ve done 10 plays, one of which our year wrote ourselves. I’ve been trained in voice, movement, acrobatics, fencing, stage fighting, aikido, mime, singing, percussion, stage craft, accents and dialects, screen acting as well as just acting.
Graduating in two months I’ve been thinking a lot what what kind of actor I want to be. My brother asked me today what it takes to be a good actor, which I think is so prevalent in the age of the celebrity. And here was my answer: It’s about being an actor with intregity, commitment to creating great art that inspires people to be active. Its about reaching out and taking risks. Being passionate… basically. There’s so much argument today for film and theatre to be entertainment for the sake of entertainment… that sounds a bit like artistic masturbation to me. Sean Penn said it best when he said, ‘If you want entertainment get 2 hookers and an 8 ball.’
I think there’s a place for entertainment in theatre and film, but its only one seat at a massive dinner table. On top of entertaining, an actor must conjure vast quantities of honesty, spontaneity, clarity intense listening, generosity, and responsiveness. That’s the actor I aim to be.
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Biog
Lizzie graduated from WAAPA in 2009. Her theatre credits include S-27, for Two Birds One Stone and Griffin Independent, Nina in The Seagull, for Siren Theatre Company, directed by Kate Gaul, and Rosalind in As You Like It and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, for Sport for Jove Theatre, directed by Damien Ryan, and Much Ado About Nothing, directed by John Bell for the Bell Shakespeare Company. Her film credits include, Sleeping Beauty directed by Julia Leigh, Careless Love directed by John Duigan. On the small screen, Lizzie has starred in Rescue Special Ops and Underbelly: Razor. In 2012, she will star in Bell Shakespeare’s main stage production of Macbeth as the witches.