Introducing the Innate Acting Matrix (IAM)

Way, way back... while we were busily working with actors on their scenes and auditions, trying to help them compete and succeed, we began to recognize what we needed to train the actor to do to fulfill what was actually being asked of the actor.

The Innate Acting Matrix (IAM), our acting system, was not intended. Instead, it was born out of our resolute attempts to solve the vast number of challenges actors face, what we call the “Actor Impossibilities.”

Over the last 25 years, and through careful artistic, human, and existential study, we recognized a growing number of elements that needed to be created and experienced by the actor’s instrument, if the acting was to be professionally competitive. 

We also discovered and became convinced as to what artistic qualities needed to be delivered to the audience to create a compelling performance. From this discovery: what we (and the audience) truly desired of the actor, a natural progression was born.

Scene after scene, year after year, we tackled the challenge, creating tools, patterns, and cataloguing processes that propelled the actor’s work towards our co-desired ideals. Inspired by the creative ownership of craft that is possessed by world-class athletes, performing artists, and martial artists, we based our solving processes on the way the masters in any discipline evolve to greatness.

Decades later, the problem-solving tools and workflows that we developed for our actors have taken shape. The acting system and workflow we now employ, the Innate Acting Matrix, is actually a by-product of our ongoing attempts to help our actors to solve this most challenging of crafts: the craft of acting.