Daniel C - New Jersey



Discovering Your Character: Who Am I?

Directions:

Step 1

Chekov: Begin internalizing who your subject is by answering the following questions:

|What’s my name? Do I have any nicknames? |

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|Describe my physical appearance. (For example, consider age, weight, height, eye color, complexion, hair, teeth, unique physical characteristics or |

|challenges, overall appearance, posture, body language, characteristic gestures/movements, health.) |

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|What is my psychological make-up/personality like? (For example, consider intelligence, interests/hobbies/ pastimes, fears, superstitions, religious |

|beliefs, sexuality, emotional make-up, ambitions, values, philosophy of life, self-concept.) |

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|What is my sociological background? (For example, consider composition of family-of-origin, ethnicity, home life, residential locations, cultural |

|traditions, education, economic status, occupations/careers, achievements and failures, politics, personal relationships, friends/enemies, current |

|family.) |

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|What historical event or aspect of the American experience had the greatest impact on my life or helped shape my life choices? Explain. |

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Smith: Consider Anna Deavere Smith’s performances when answering the following questions:

|What is unique about the way I use language? What words and/or expressions I tend to repeat? Do I have an accent? Do I pronounce any words in a unique |

|manner? Do my sentences have a unique inflection? How do I use my hands when I talk? How do I hold my body? How do I use eye contact? |

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|In what ways does my individual experience reflect the larger “American” experience? |

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Step 2

Chekov: Your character’s physical center

|How would you describe me physically? Am I robust? frail? spritely? lethargic? arthritic? sinewy? rotund? slight? petite? |

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|What is my physical center? For example, where do I center my weigh when I stand or sit? How do I tend to use the action zones of near, middle, and far |

|reach? How do I typically change posture, posture/gesture, and posture/gesture/merger? What part of parts of my body do I tend to lead with? |

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Step 3

Directions:

Chekov: Your character’s emotional center

|How would you describe me emotionally? Am I cerebral? deliberate? governed by emotion? reactive? calculated? angry? shy? |

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|What is my emotional center? How do I manifest my emotions when I talk? How do I show emotion physically? Is it by what I say or don’t say? By what I show|

|or don’t show? |

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