hi welcome to another  celebrating our tenth anniversary coming up here in twenty seventeen it's kind of just happened you know i was in l a working quite a bit and doing my thing and we came back here for several reasons to get back and do it from the new york east coast  know i just started but never thought i'd run an acting studio ever i thought you know that's the furthest thing from what i would be doing but people started saying jodie my son's got an audition he's got a manager now can you help with that on that yeah sure come on over and then the word started spreading around and i started charging a few bucks an hour to do that over there is no plan now not at all i was working as an actor and you know doing my thing boy sobers and private tutorials became a while because one woman who's running some things here in princeton she her daughter was one of my clients if you will and then we started talking about the princeton dance and theater studio down in forest all village and they had a theater program there that wasn't going very well was being run by some folks at a new brunswick and it just wasn't happening and so i said well i'd like to give it a shot so i kind of worked for them for about eight months doing acting classes very few people signing up and i started building this thing  they finally did that and i could see that it was they were really pushing it so i thought i'm going to i do i do like this i think i'm pretty good at this i'd like to see if i can build something here in princeton and i did so we started we made a deal and  all worked out and the reason i started doing this if you don't mind me saying it was that i had children who grew up here well we have to live in south pasadena california for a number of years we brought him back to hopewell and i started seeing a lot of the shows and plays around here in the schools because friends of ours kids were growing up and i hope well school princeton high school p d s lots of different places and i thought man this music is really good the singing is outstanding the choreography is amazing the acting was nothing to be honest with you i hate to say it but it's true i thought it was the musicals especially acting was just an excuse to get to the next song i thought man if these kids could learn how the craft of acting really is boy there could be some seriously good productions what is the what is the how do you take the person and let them grow how do you transform the process so to speak he had improper scenes i'm very improvisational he based i learned a lot of things through the years based on they want in their skills and the same time you don't you don't give anyone you know phony phony advice but you are so nurturing at the same time and you compassionate you created me energetic and so i mean look at what people want to do  you tell it like plastic again you do improv you do i think you do lessons by yourself or someone else you know seen now you're doing with what we have a testimony right honored testimonial yet to the classes of course that i've been in but i've also been doing myself that i was out of touch with for many years you know kind of the more creative side of myself all the paradoxically being a psychotherapist what really has struck me is how much what jodi teaches sounds like what i do in therapy with people because that's what you want to do if you're a good therapist that's what you want to have happen is there be so cut the number one thing that anyone will tell you this that knows anything about acting all the greats will tell you the number one thing and actor has to do is to listen to really missed something because i'm not listening i'm trying to think of something funny to say down the road i missed a moment there and improvisation we always said you know every moment is an explosion of opportunity and you never know what's going to happen or to keep it fun at the same time i was afraid going to be like workshops that i do when i get teams together to really again listen to one another build on each other's ideas what you have to do in improv focus and collaborate communication is so key today i mean there's so many people shoes that are just dysfunctional and there's too many silos and blah blah blah there's just so what i do is get the teams together and we run depending on the specific issue that they have like breaking down silos our team isn't communicating enough we don't cooperate enough we need more team building we need more you know support of one another but the key with improv is you guys know is building on the others idea yes and to magic words that can change it change your life really yes and to say yes to everything in the life of course not but it's the basis the foundation of improvisation is yes i'm listening and i want to build on that idea may be a terrible idea in the beginning my god over the years you know raised my still my job jody my son's raising his hand in class much more money my daughter is just doing much better on their tests they they're probably there so they get up and have no fear doing their presentations in class name go on and on and on and one of the great stories i had that there was a girl on a bike and they say her name but she's a princeton resident and she's done she's doing really really well now she's been with me since she was fourteen years old she's now on her own you know doing her thing we get together once in a while to work i said great kid he was and war torn serbia yugoslavia and he was really i mean nervous and he couldn't stand still looking but in the eye when i first met him so we worked on these techniques and through acting and improv that i could have never done that if it wasn't her class and that made me feel better than saying this girl was in a property near a movie i swear it's improv right and so we could you know the things we do for kids around here it's just i get from questions from the princeton audience  studi dot com one s and play for success and jay dot com as for the corporate stuff and in doing so there's a lot of significant work around here and princeton area so many great or several times and you can see it you know i mean i have a way of making people feel safe and have really good environment where it's ok no one's judging anybody because those kinds of improv is a very scary  you give to your younger self to save yourself time to get in the business because this is a pianist even i'm not saying you're george clooney but you still have to give the top one percent because most actors actually don't make a living doing it right you know so we're not george clooney  work harder i would give myself that i would give my younger self that advice to work harder at it don't ever you know to try to cut corners don't don't take no for an answer poison your competition and poison the competition at the final minute then you have to really focus i mean getting married not my rotten might not be an option all that kind of stuff might be yeah well you know i think i got married right out of school i don't know if that's the best advice to give a young actor but it was tough very tough many many times but she understood the you know i just want to say that i think that it's amazing the way you are able to create that safety and spontaneity in the class and to just create this atmosphere that's nine judge mental and playful and i think that's what really allows people to access these different but postscript prescribed marianne has traveled the world living in working for the betterment of international education supporting education that's been her life's work and passion she did not come to education internationally in the traditional sense of the correct classroom teacher but her late husband stanley was a teacher in headmaster greece and rome and other places and you worked with him and then after his death you worked in many other international and to you came here to princeton to work for international school to go with these colors i mean this is a very creative oh i've been like this for years and i just love the color and i just love doing these things and the interesting thing is you see me walking down the street hallways of your have everybody you know and i get a kick out of it because i know sometimes when i'm walking down the street someone will stop me and they'll say have you been in fast sions and i say no and then after a while i started to think about it because my late husband once said to me tell people what they want  in the past other thing that really i must say it's everybody in town knows that i'm nine day because i've counted problem but i must say one day a woman stopped me and said to me i hear you're nine he won and i thought i could believe instead of just smiling seattle the oldest of five kids and i was the only girl and my father and mother her were immigrants from said it's a beautiful place you'll love the mile or so they get there and they had not much money and they lived in a neighborhood where there was only one other white person the rest were all blacks and there were jews that lived in seattle but they were be talking about well it's funny that you tell this story about something that happened more than ninety years ago because i have relatives who moved to seattle about twenty years ago and they told me a few years it was a wonderful experience for me because that's how i got to know a lot of black people who really used to watch out for b and then th neighborhood got a little bit you know not so good and they said mariam stopped walking the streets like that anyway i rebelled that the age of seven teen i went to new york after finishing hydrological to the new york o a lot of jews in new york maybe my i must say my parents were glad to get rid of bay because i was such a rebel and i lived there for a year came back to seattle for a year moved to san francisco met my husband but i must say i brothers one guy not long ago and he was really a very sweet caring person but all of them are ultra ultra  kids she had forty seven grandchildren and i only had two so you can imagine as the years of go by i'm the only one th you know just have a not much time left but even before that when i used to say you should live to one hundred twenty she said when you're ninety five betts not long enough region was the middle east and it was great and my kids already were live big of the states having their own my husband died in nineteen ninety five and they asked me this stay one more year till the new person can come am and i got after the year was almost  school in india had been working for the state department in washington d c and got offered a job as a head the president of international school services well he didn't had applied for it and he called me up and he said well you're write a letter of recommendation for me while i was glad because he was some wonderful person and i had this fancy title  of separation of anyone in this town you know them you've met them you talk with them which makes it interesting any final thoughts or comments before we move on with one more minute marianne i think that you're an inspiration to all of us how many languages do you speak well  i speak like if i speak english but i know it tell you quite well and a bit of spanish greek can you know i could get by  originally as the lead actress who is a teen who discovers that there is a haunting that comes through periscope and i can give you a little more detail on that but i i came on board to help with casting the other characters under my blue ribbon productions organization and so in association with killer beam and then as result of casting they brought me on his executive producer to help with the actual production and then the post production that we're doing now we're doing film festivals and promoting the film here's a scene from movie a game and acted out yeah oh yeah but you  new york city turn of the century the seamstress that we're all immigrant trying that our clothing company that had the seamstress basically locked into the into the work space to work you know all day practically all right what was shocked as you know that this one caught on fire terrible working conditions it caught on fire and as a result many of these women either jumped to their deaths or were burned the ones that could get to windows and this was an inspiration for gary gary created the story dialing with yes with andy who's our writer and he can take any concept and and write it out with amazing s but so she plays when one of the women who was an older woman who would knit gifts for the other workers for their children you know she had two socks and booties and blankets and so forth that was like her back story and as a result of being killed in this horrible horrific fire she comes back when the building is refurbish and tech companies move in more currently it's tech companies technology and using channeling through social media periscope who plays katie she ends up finding this out early on i guess on her own and seeing the ghost and the ghost if you see her and she sees you she will come after you and kill you and so that's like the urban legend about her and when you go to her site you might see the rocking chair and she's in this dark space like an attic space rocking and netting and you don't you know if she looks at you and talks to you she's going to come out isn't that as well as the same thing is like pokey man yeah hunting for pokmon same sort of thing along the same lines except for you know once you find her you are we want to get rid of and we actually shot that believe it or not we shot that live like with both of them on cell phones in different rooms at the same time so you can see on their screens where should you know over the shoulder and i love going into this behind the scenes how things are really made and so we're shooting over the shoulder while she's talking with kyle and their face timing on their i phones and her style i learned all their yassar you learn all this there communicate back and forth and then  give the viewer here the ability to really be because i always hate the movies when you can't read what people are typing so and it was our editor really zooms in and gives our viewers that building see their conversation and be on top of what they're between the talking to each other and then typing to each other texting so the story sort of unravels and and jeff as kyle has a great job with giving the back story saying you know he's not ready but he sort of he identifies to k t o you're bored tonight on their life these are actual live video clips of them doing something and they're like check me out at two o'clock i'll be on you know throwing balls into a cup on the other side of my neck or sexual i knew  the film to get investors on board and funding for a feature length script that's already written and we're going to start casting now so there's a whole this is like one segment of the old navy killing someone and giving you the view of what you know what she's all about and how evil she is and how deadly quite scary but the actual story line expands quite a bit as to how she comes through first film festival that we were accepted in and our first film we premiered down philadelphia at the liberty mask her and she won best actress for this film  yeah i am the one being hunted by julie and i have encountered her before but then jeff is kind of playing with me and he tries to get me all scared and it actually works because i know she me as a person so it didn't require that much of a stretch as an actor i consider myself a very overly sarcastic person who would probably make up a story like that scary person so pretty much m show me i think i am definitely very good at playing scared and i consider that something that i do really well and thanks the make up artist really was a very scary so i didn't have to play it  honestly and i don't normally play evil but it was kind of a revelation to myself to find out that darn it it's right in there you know you can bring that out when i looked at myself in the mirror i was scared i didn't didn't recognize myself and the i guess the best part of it was her reaction because i could see best actress around now but if you are working with someone else and you can see in their eyes absolute terror which is what was there i mean that just makes you feel the power and i can hear actually react you a lot of times just reacting giving us a good sounding board to react but how did you find the something and i was able to come up with some motivation and when you hear the background of the story which i think is in the beginning of the movie and it's great ok this poor woman and my name is the sweatshops that where you did people do you know that all the seamstresses were and it was a terrible fire and it's based on a true fact and so there is anger from that it for the character ok where i got my anger had you know comes from another place but it it was appropriate thing we basically the straight guy who did and went right so there's some comic acting here too any kind of the good straight man the protagonist for more jokes and some y lot of jokes a lot of jokes a lot over the top facial expressions little odd little all that stuff i was the straight man i was the guy just kind of did that how long is the trailer how long is a movie right now  sense i think there would be definitely character additions and i think it would be kind of the same kind of over all theme but about three years old i've even know if this is actually happening so i haven't vaguely remember it happening but my mom says this happened so kind of trust mommy i lived in an old house in oakland and new jersey new jersey not california and in the basement i walked downstairs one day and apparently there was a boy maybe a little older than me at the time i was probably around three that was all black rocking in the corner my god that's get out that way and everything we saw and you have all demanded a lot of you which can be scary enough there were a lot more than anything in your life that made you think differently about the super now i don't know i've always been wary of stuff like that because i've definitely heard stories from people that i know people that i love that they've encountered like demons and really yeah especially that's why i don't play with yeah and on one of them a supernatural thing actually happened not just what we were per trade during during the filming yet yeah and the movie go scuttles that i did out in california i have on tape voice  the house that we taped it in was supposedly haunted place it was had a landmark in front of it and i think there's a voice riaa i hope you guys are having and enjoying the rest of your summer i have some cool stuff for you this 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where feelings had to be spared in fact when i was in college the concept of literally safe spaces where your body integrity might be kept safe was just starting to happen and i was talking to a friend about it today we were talking about how at the university of pennsylvania in the early eighty's they were installing panic buttons in the ladies room so because there were some rapes on campus in the early eighty's that was just starting to be a thing just the beginning of not blaming the victims for actually having to walk back from the library at night and started to say hey maybe we should keep female students safe well that's legitimate that's something whose time had come and passed by the time it started to be addressed as a problem in the eighty's when i was a student but today that concept i think has really been carried too far where people where students are have have either asked for have just been preached preemptively given the right to not even have to think about things that are upsetting so literature that we use to study has been taken off curricula for the idea that it might be upsetting we might be upset to read about children being molested or people of different races being treated badly so those things are no longer studied paintings famous paintings that are that the pick horrible things being done they don't want to have been taken on the our history curriculum or different books that are that have you know gruesome stories in them have been taken off literature curricula so i think that the university of chicago is responding by saying you know this is enough already if these kids want to be considered grown men and women they have to man and woman up and they have to be able to face the music we are not going to rewrite history for them they have to face history they have to learn it they have to process it they have to read it they have to write about it and then they can decide for themselves how they are going to you know enter the grown world  maybe a group in the late sixty's places like you know like princeton how do you address almost like a p r move to address the bigotry or maybe the bias against unintentional of not including different subjects women minorities so they threw these lot but but but anything you know anything that you can think of probably has something that has been flipped around and changed to further somebodies political agenda ok david give us one example of anything