The Art of Awareness

Acting isn’t about pretending. It’s about presence. About listening. About coming back to what’s real.
What if it was never about becoming someone else—
but finally becoming yourself?
In this episode, Gwenm speaks with Lori Triolo—actor, director, and master teacher of Meisner and Fitzmaurice Voicework®—about how the craft of acting can draw us into deeper contact with our truth, rather than pulling us away from it.
They explore voice as a measure of emotion, breath as a doorway into the present moment, and how real performance isn’t about polish—it’s about contact. With the body. With sensation. With the parts of ourselves we’ve been trained to mute.
This isn’t just a conversation for actors.
It’s for anyone who has gone numb.
Anyone who’s tired of holding it together.
Anyone ready to feel again.
It’s about awareness—
and the quiet, steady return of aliveness
when we stop performing and start paying attention.
 
Watch: https://youtu.be/CQp7UGygHPM