“There's lots of room to be your own worse critic. It's just you, so I think that's inherit, that voice that's always that's there monitoring everything you do. It's definitely worse; the critic is harder when it's just you. If you're doing a show, then the critic can blame the other actors your with.” IfsThinkingShowsActorsVoiceRoomsHarderBlameCriticsMonitoring Author:Jason Graae
“If you don't get a laugh I immediately think it's somebody else's fault. You can always blame the material. But when it's just yourself and songs that you've picked up because you love them and stories that you've written yourself and patter you think is really funny if that tanks, there's no one to blame it on. God knows, I try!” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingStoriesSongLaughingWrittenMaterialsBlameFaultsGod KnowsTanks Author:Jason Graae
“I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from audiences, I don't like for them to think they know what's happening next.” ThinkingKnowsNextAudienceElementsHappeningsSurpriseGet Ahead Author:Jason Graae
“I also think the reason I like to do a one-man show is you're not limited into the confines of a role. There's so many facets to actors and I think it's important to push those limits, as far as what a person can do.” ThinkingMenPersonsImportantReasonShowsActorsCan DoRolesLimitsOne ManFacets Author:Jason Graae
“I know when I like to go see a show, I like to see people show as many different facets of themselves as they can, because I think that's the fun of it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsDifferentShowsFunFacets Author:Jason Graae
“I come in as an actor, having read through the script a few times, made a couple of character-choices, thinking I'm going to be working on it during rehearsals. It's very different. It takes a while we're always like dogs sniffing each other's asses.” ThinkingMadeDifferentCharacterChoicesActorsDogCoupleScriptsAssRehearsalSniffing Author:Jason Graae