Strengths & Weaknesses As An Actress

             I feel like as an actress I have a natural stage presence and the ability to embrace a role to make the audience feel comfortable with my characterisation of the role, I also feel like I take direction and suggestions well from other fellow actors and the directors.  I would love to improve being able to develop a character more easily and also improve my ability to make, and feel comfortable with, my own direction and ideas instead of only direction from others.  This semester I want to work a lot with audition settings. Because I get so nervous in auditions and I feel like I never perform my best and the director doesn't see what I can really do. So I want to be able to go into an audition with lots of confidence and not be as nervous and have the ability to show everything I have to offer. One thing that really scares me about acting is drawing a blank on stage. Forgetting my lines or the lyrics to a song would be awful, I wouldn't know what to do. For some people that would be considered a challenge and they would have the opportunity to practice their improv skills. But for me, I am so bad at improv, I have never been good at it, and so I would really be at a lose for words if I went blank on stage. I guess you would have to face that fear head one. Because if you avoid it, then you will never improve as an actor. To face that fear and try to prevent it, I would study my lines over and over again until there is no doubt that I will remember them. I should probably work on my improve skills too, that is just the one thing that I never felt comfortable doing and have never been very good at.