Highly Experienced Teacher of Acting, Directing, and Writing

Eric H.

I have had a thirty-year career at the university level teaching acting, directing, and writing. I held a full professorship at both the University of Connecticut and Brandeis University where I was the Sachar professor of Theater Arts. My teaching philosophy is based on a close one-on-one relationship with each student. It is my intention to discover and develop those unique strengths and skills inside each student that will help them tackle any subject whether it be in art, literature, or life.

Their are no formulas in my methodology: I teach for understanding not testing. I am more concerned about how a student is thinking than the amount of information they are attempting to digest. In the process, I attempt to open the student up to the larger world of understanding in the subject they are studying and to bring it home to them in a way that can improve their grades and their way of approaching learning.

I am trained in specific skills to awaken the student's body as a way of awakening the mind to the process of learning. A healthy mind requires a healthy body that is awake and alive while learning. My philosophy is also rooted in art of compassionate education. Students will learn better in an environment where they are seen and appreciated for who they are and not what they are expected to be and where they are presented with challenges rather than demands to achieve a grade. A teacher or tutor must be a mentor who respects and cares for each student as if they were his or her own and who sticks with the student until the goals are achieved.