a markland studio zoom workshop

You've asked it. Never out loud. Or if it was out loud something was missing from meaning it.
You've asked it in the car outside the audition, in the shower after the callback become crickets,
at the Thanksgiving table when someone you love asks what you're working on. You hear
yourself say “a few things” with a smile you've rehearsed longer than any scene. Then you go
home and the question lays next to you on the bed… looking at you.

You'd rather die than say it and mean it. So, you try to prove…

This class won't talk you into staying. It won't let you leave quietly either. It goes to the root.
No one can answer this question for you. Not me. Not anyone. What I can do is take you to the
why buried at its source... and the why vibrating in your answer. Find those and the question
loses its grip on you for good.

Week One. The Question. You say it out loud, in your own words, to people who have asked it
too. You own it. Then we find where it lives in your body and how, where and when it comes for
you. It makes you move a certain way, enter a room a certain way, even stand a certain way.

Week Two. The Voices. The question has a voice, and it usually isn't yours. Sometimes it's a
parent. Sometimes it's the bank account wearing a parent's face. Sometimes its fifty taped
auditions sitting on your laptop. These voices keep screaming the question.

Week Three. The Root. Why you started, and what you'd honestly lose. Underneath the doubt
is a want you stopped admitting to. A dream that feels more like a memory. You have to be
heard.

Week Four. The Ground. You leave standing on something solid enough to take the risks you
believe you can’t. Then you lock in a honest game plan for January, so next year doesn’t repeat
this year.

Asking the question doesn't end the work. Hiding from it does.

Fight for you, don’t hide from you. Start here.