Anthony Brandon Wong Ivana Chubbuck Technique

This weekend was, in fact, the most grueling I’ve experienced in regards to acting training. I thought it was an intro to acting session but didn’t realized what I got myself into until being in a room of experienced and professional practitioners: in theatre, on and off screens. In the lead up to class, it was a psychological gruelling process on extreme nerve attacks as I struggled to throttle the lines of Joanna Murray Smith’s “Honour” play into my fish memory bank.

On top of that, I was indeed a very naughty student, whose hasn’t even read the text that was prescribed to me!

But anyhow, the class is over and I was reinforced with a brand new and winning mindset. One which celebrated extreme possibilities, self value and the power of positive thinking.

And yes, this was a class that had a lot of “F” words and emotional explosions as well.

Ivana Chubbuck Technique: is a 12 step acting technique that gives the actor a systematic approach to tap into deep and profound emotional resources, producing high stake performances that are raw, real, dynamic and passionate.
Actors who have been trained in this include: Brad Pitt, Halle Berry, Jake Gyllenhaal, Catherine Keener, Kate Hudson, Rene Russo, Radha Mitchell and Julian

Here's a bit about Anthony Wong - my guide and trainer

Anthony Brandon Wong is a teacher and award-winning actor who has worked in the US, Canada, Asia, Europe and Australia.
His feature film credits include the role of Ghost - the Zen Buddhist Assassin in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions as well as the lead character (alongside Jada Pinkett Smith) in the Enter the Matrix video game.
Other film credits include Twentieth Century Fox's Flight of the Phoenix, Mask of the Ninja, Floating Life, Little Fish and the Australian comedy Crooked Business.
He was most recently seen in ABC's Samurai Girl and in the BBC's Secrets of the Forbidden City.

Other television credits include The Unit, NCIS, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Disney Channel's Jumping Ship, All Saints, Water Rats and Spellbinder 2.
Anthony won the Green Room Award (Best Actor) for his performance in Sex Diary of an Infidel, which also netted him a Sydney Critics Circle Award nomination.
He was also nominated for two other Green Room Awards for The Temple and The Language of the Gods.
Anthony brings an array of teaching experience to 16th Street having taught at TVI Studios (LA), NIDA and The Actors Centre to