Teaching

Scott Illingworth is the Associate Chair of the Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He’s served as Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University and taught and directed at colleges and theatres across the United States and globally. He is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (GCFT) and a Fulbright Grant recipient.

Scott's classes and workshops cultivate deep curiosity and empathy about the world other people through observation and experimentation to spark better awareness about yourself and to create more specific, surprising, and deeply embodied characters.
His Physical Actioning technique builds on the vocabulary of simple action verbs to generate an entire set of practical tools from first read to performance that harnesses modern knowledge about the integration of the mind and the rest of the body.
Physical Actioning creates a modern toolkit for the actor’s work that keeps the exploration embodied at every step and empowers them with specific techniques to apply on stage and in front of the camera.
His book, Exercises for Embodied Actors: Tools for Physical Actioning is a comprehensive workbook for actors and teachers alike including over 50 innovative exercises. It leads actors through a step-by step examination of their own habits, links those discoveries to creating characters, preparing auditions, and offers dozens of exercises to explore in classrooms and with ensembles.

Contents include:
Part 1. Foundations for Physical Actioning  
Part 2. Seeing Yourself 
Part 3. Building an Embodied Role 
Part 4. Experiments for the Classroom and Ensembles  
Part 5. Would Stanislavsky Disapprove? & Will My Brain Get in My Way?
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