David Chiu

Fawn and I performed our scene for Tom tonight and received a lot of notes. Basically, my major critique is that I am not Biff. Currently, my portrayal of Biff Grimes is too modern, too confident, too romantic, too refined and nothing like Biff Grimes. In other words, I don’t have a good grasp of my character. His compliment to me was that although my current performance is emotional and talented, I need to find Biff Grimes. He also said not to get frustrated because in reality, I would never be cast as this type of character. The character is too much of a stretch of who I am in real life, but is a good exercise for me as an actor and leading man.

I do feel frustrated that I can’t embody this character. I’m also frustrated that the past couple of classes and coachings that I have had, the other teachers didn’t work with me more in finding my character. Tom had a lot of very good points in his critique (as he always does) and wants to work on the scene outside of class to help me and my partner really nail the characters down. This is a good thing but I just wish I had been working more on this before…