My teaching blends liberal arts synthesis and context with practical skills that can help put students on the path toward a professional performance career. I approach concepts through multiple lenses, incorporating in my performance classes elements like the thoughtful analysis of Stanislavski and Adler, supplemented by the imagination and joy of Michael Chekhov, the physical discovery and play of Lecoq, the specificity and rigor of Margolis Method, and Meisner’s genuine, extra-textual exchanges between scene partners. Special contexts like stage combat, intimacy, screen work, or devised physical theatre make more explicit the need to balance technical and artistic aspects of performance. Ultimately, actors need to understand the story we’re trying to tell, know how to translate that into playable actions, and despite all that analysis and planning, still be able to listen and respond to those with whom we share the stage.