31 Mar 2025 2 min read Actors

Introducing the Know Small Parts newsletter!

Behind-the-scenes stories and wisdom from my 30-year career as a working actor in films like Django Unchained, Now You See Me and Kill Bill, TV shows from Friends to Queen Sugar, and over 60 commercials.

If you’ve read Know Small Parts: An Actor’s Guide to Turning Minutes into Moments and Moments into a Career, (with a foreword by Richard Dreyfuss and endorsements from Kevin Costner, Lou Diamond Phillips and more), then you already know where I got the name for this newsletter. And you already know how much I strive to take the vagueness out of acting – as a craft and as a career.

To get things started, I’ll be sharing the 3 questions I ask myself when I break down a scene. Whether I have 5 minutes or 5 months to prepare, I always start with the same 3 questions. I’ve shared my process at universities from Los Angeles to New York and with my private coaching clients. Now I’ll be sharing with subscribers!

I’m brand new to this platform so it’s taking me a moment to get everything set up and running. In the meantime, please let me know if you have a question you’d like me to address. I’ll be selecting some of these questions for future newsletter topics (with an emphasis on topics that can benefit more than just the single individual who asked).

Writers and readers, make sure you check out my Writing Unblocked newsletter!