Creative Actors Lab
Join Max and Kelley Grimm as we explore ways to incorporate creativity into your everyday life. Once we give ourselves permission to feel inspired by allowing our imaginations to flourish, we can reignite that childlike joy to create without being self-conscious.
Creative Actors Lab
Latest Episodes
A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 17 - Anonymous Poetry
Max discusses how he enjoys poems, a chapter from the book 500 Greatest Poems, and some poems don't have the names of the poets or the year they were written, and some go back to the year 1250 and earlier. Edward, Edwar...
A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 18 - A Child's Garden of Verses
Max talks about The Gutenberg Project and Robert Lewis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, and the night that the lights went out in his neighborhood, and being tucked into bed with a white candle. It includes the poems:<...
A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 16 - Oscar Wilde & The Ballad of Reading Gaol
In this episode, Max reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which Oscar Wilde wrote while he was in jail for two years for the crime of homosexuality, and it was inspired by Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a trooper in the Royal Horse Guard...
A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 15 - The Origins of Acting
Max discusses a poem he read many years ago, called the Saga of Li-Peng and Xua-Xua, which tells the story of the discovery of acting and theater. Li-Peng and Xua-Xua wait for a child without understanding the changes to her body and h...
A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 14 - The Pencil Trick
Max talks about his first blush with a voice class and how liberating it was. He also talks about his love of Shakespeare and the old radio announcer exercise. He suggests learning some Shakespearean sonnets because they're short and easi...
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fabulous you two beautiful souls...thank you for this .....the first poem made me cry ...the second I understood....the last hearing you cry made me cry ....same as always.....and yes I will share in words some of mine when bravery strikes me once again ....and thank you Kelly for being you and allow Max to breathe and be the beautiful soul he still is....bless you both for giving the world this unbelievable opportunity to speak the heart without compromise ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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