Thank you so much Kru Sueb for coming to MasterClass Studio and sharing your philosophy and knowledge about Acting for Film and On Camera Techniques with our students. Every one of your classes is inspirational and our students are blessed to have somebody with your knowledge and experience coming in and teaching them.
I am grateful to you and thank you for helping me.
A huge thank you to the team behind the showcase of Generation 21 of the Fundamentals of Acting Course. Thank you for your excellent work. Thank you for staying extra hours and giving it what it takes to make this showcase a success.
Thank you, Mona Greenspoon, for jumping in taking over teaching both the adult and teenager classes when I most needed it. There are only 2 people that I trust teaching the classes, you and June, and despite everything else that was going on in your life, you took charge and facilitated the classes until I returned. You are a wonderful actress, who is always in the moment and feels 100% with the people in the room and the students were able to feel your experience and guided by your knowledge in acting. Giving over a class is not easy, but with you, I was sure they were in good hands. Thank you, Mona. I apologize that I didn’t find the right words before as I was still shaken by the events that happened, but please know that I am most grateful to you and your help during this period. There is nobody else I would have asked instead of you.
Thank you, June (MamaGandhi), for stepping it up during the rehearsals for the showcase. You didn’t have to, but once again you have proven what kind of brilliant director you are. Taking students’ scenes, arranging them, coaching them and giving it your all until the very last moment when the students are able to hold their own on stage. I know that at the same time you are managing a 100 other things and the time that you spent working on the showcase made you fall behind on your other responsibilities. There is nobody else that could have pulled this off within 2 days, you made it work, gave it 100% and made the magic happen. I cannot say anything else but thank you for your spirit and energy and love for the stage that reverberated in the students and in their performance.
Thank you Kaykarn. You, Sir, are a very talented man on and off stage and just like Mona and June the stage and everything that goes along with it is where you belong. Thank you for being, once more, my Showmaster and Sound Designer / operator, arranging the stage crew and team within no time and despite other obligations, making it work and being 100% on the spot with the cues. Mona, June and you formed the beating heart of what was going on behind the scenes.
Thank you, Gib. Within very little time you are always making it happen. I love your lighting design and the feeling that you give to each scene. You make it easy for any director to work with you and are able to work under very stringent conditions. You are always kind and it is a pleasure to work with you. Thank you, Gib.
Thank you, Sharp and Khaopad, for tackling any tasks you were given and making the showcase in our small studio work. This was a showcase with a LOT of scene changes and a LOT of props and we couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you.
Thank you to the audience who came to see the showcase and encourage your loved ones.
Thank you so much to all the actors from the showcase of Generation 21.
This was the hardest course for me as your coach. In the middle of the course, I had to go to the Netherlands as the health of my mom was fading quickly. The time I spent with her was very precious and I was able to be with her until her final breathe.
Handing over a class to while being in the middle of the course is something that I hadn’t done before and something that I had been scared of. When coaching we engage in a very intimate relationship with each other. We share our innermost hearts and the process is very delicate. We build up trust to one another where we allow each other to be guided by sharing openly and wholeheartedly.
Some part of me feels that I let you down, but, were I in the same position again, I would have made the same decision as I cannot turn back the time and my mom is now gone.
The only person I could see taking on this responsibility and that I trust whole heartedly to take on the task and give it her all was Mona Greenspoon and she did not let me down. Taking on a course mid-way is a huge task in itself. A trust and bond has been build to the instructor that came before and now the new coach needs to deal with a whole other set of feelings and emotions other than focusing on the course material.
Mona, you had a humongous hill to climb and you did.
When I came back, I could feel the trust and the relationship that you were able to establish between you and the students. You became their acting coach. And you still are.
This is the first generation of students that was able to experience 3 coaches and directors, June, Mona and myself. Each with their very own style, with their very own way, with their very own philosophy and all of them being right. Like in life there are always many ways to look at the same issue. Such is theatre, such is life.
In the end, this was a showcase to be proud of. All of it enjoyable. None of it boring. With a whole range of emotions. Packed with drama, comedy, tragedy, a little slapstick but most of all…a lot of passion and love for the art of acting.
Congratulations and thank you for sticking with me until the end…and as every new beginning comes at some other beginnings end…I hope to see you in the next course!
Thank you so much, Mishy, for your kind words.
I knew you would love drama school in the UK. It is perfect for you. To meet other creative people just like yourself and to fully immerse yourself in the world of creativity, love and madness, connection and limiltess imagination.
I am glad to hear that you are keeping in touch with the othre students (thank you,Dylan, for passing Mishy’s note on to me).
When you come back, please share your experiences and inspirationswith us!
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Thank you so mich August for teaching our Acting for Film students about how to perform well at a casting and what the casting director is expecting of you.
There is nothing better but for our students to learn from industry professional like yourself that have worked on a multitude of international movies and know what the directors are looking for.
It was a pleasure to see you and your sister again and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being there for me.
I hope your health will improve and you will have time to take care of yourself.
See you soon!
