Bonus Episode – Character Lessons from an Actor

February 4, 2024  

Season 8

For the past two seasons Valerie has been talking about character dimension and cast design. The key to understanding both concepts is to recognize that a person isn’t a uniform, constant creature. A person’s behaviour changes depending on the situation she finds herself in and the people she finds herself interacting with. In this brief bonus episode, Valerie’s daughter Avery (a theatre student at the York University Acting Conservatory) illustrates how this character shift plays out in real time. It’s actually an acting assignment as part of her course work, but it sums up everything Valerie has been talking about over the course of the last twenty episodes. Enjoy!