Collaborative resonance

Show notes

Guests: Bella Merlin (Ph.D., University of Birmingham) is an actor, songwriter, and professor of acting and directing at the University of California, Riverside. Trained at Moscow's State Institute of Cinematography, she has worked on stage and screen for nearly 30 years, including seasons at the National Theatre/Out of Joint (UK), Shakespeare & Company (USA), the award-winning film Mente Revolver (Mexico), and numerous roles on television, theatre and radio. A proponent of practice-as-research (PAR), she is published widely in several languages; books include Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence (Routledge, 2020); Acting: The Basics (third edition: Routledge, forthcoming 2024), The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit (Nick Hern Books, Revised Edition, 2014) and Facing the Fear: An Actor's Guide to Overcoming Stage Fright (Nick Hern Books, 2016). Bella has led masterclasses across the globe from Australia to Zimbabwe. And with Dr. Paul Fryer (co-director of the Stanislavsky Research Centre), she co-founded the international series of symposia, The S Word, examining contemporary takes on Stanislavsky's system and legacy. www.bellamerlin.com

Miles Anderson is an internationally acclaimed actor and director. Born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His most recent screen appearances in the USA include Hunters with Al Pacino, Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth with Denzel Washington and Damien Chazelle's LaLaLand with Ryan Gosling. He is perhaps best known in Europe for his television appearances as Colonel Aidan Dempsey in Ultimate Force (ITV), Roger O’Neill in House of Cards (BBC) and Colonel Dan Fortune in the hit series Soldier, Soldier (ITV). Theatre includes three seasons at the Old Globe San Diego; ten years at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and West End appearances such as Bill Sykes in Cameron Mackintosh's Oliver! Awards include the San Diego Critics' Circle Award for Best Actor in a Lead for his performance as King George in The Madness of George III, the San Diego Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, and three British Drama Awards including one for Dog in The Witch of Edmonton (RSC). His memoir Colonels, Cads and Charmers: Memories (2020) (written with Bella Merlin) has won Honorable Mentions at the Los Angeles Book Fair and the Southern California Book Fair. www.milesanderson.usTilly No-Body: Catastrophes of Love (full film): https://vimeo.com/789218685

Tilly Blog (Bella Merlin) http://tillynobody-bellamerlin.blogspot.com/

Genetics of ‚Incidental‘ Music (Blog entry on Composing Tilly, David Roesner) https://theatermus.hypotheses.org/1436

„The Document as Music. Exploring the musicality of verbatim material in performance“ (David and Bella, Journal of Artistic Research, No. 15, 2018 https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/353508/353509

20:20 Vision (full film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=387ggbg-iSQ

Bella Merlin has also written a chapter on teaching on Zoom and the project 20:20 Vision. This will be published in Stanislavsky and Pedagogy, Routledge, 2024.