"The Laz Process, named after my nickname, carries a lifetime of discovery in aliveness, presence, and creation on stage and beyond"
"*The Laz Process is an approach to performance rooted in presence, attention and risk. tt asks the performer to let go of preconception and meet the moment as it unfolds--to listen before acting, to respond rather than construct, and to allow meaning to arise through relationship
"The Laz Process is not a technique to be mastered but a practice to be entered--a process-based approach to performance."
From the start, I rejected mechanical or technical approaches to acting. I wanted to live truthfully on stage--awake, responsive and fully present.
Influenced by Tibetan Buddhism and Zen, I learned that only the present moment is real. Memories are not living realities, they are impressions of what has passed. Emotion cannot be retrieved--it must be created and lived now.
I was also inspired by the dancer and mime, Lindsay Kemp, whose total expressive and deeply physical artistry taught me to generate emotion through the body, presence and imagination, rather than reproduce it.
"I came to understand myself not as someone who re-produces emotion, but as someone who generates it through the body, through living presence and through imagination"
These process-based explorations took shape at The Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, where I performed for 25 years under the artistic guidance of Giles Havergal, Philip Prowse and Robert David MacDonald. There, I was given the freedom to pursue a process that was not about technique or method but about aliveness, presence and the freedom to create in the moment.
The company staged European classics, early English plays and new works developed for the ensemble by Robert David MacDonald. There I had continuity, challenge and trust--allowing me the space to work deeply, repeatedly and organically over two decades.
"This rare environment shaped my understanding of what it means to work fully and livingly in performance."
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Emotion arises from the body--not from memory or pre-planned responses.
Presence comes first - awareness of space and sensation guides action.
Non-dual relationally - dissolving the spit between actor, role and environment.
Safe exploration - allowing strong emotions to emerge without judgement.
Somatic grounding - cultivating fully embodied living presence.
"Action, emotion and perception move as one."
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Dramatic improvisation to awaken real emotional responses
Guided awareness work in space, movement and perception
Integration of inner and outer perception to cultivate living presence
Optional reflection on experience rather than performance
Participants shift from analysis to experience. Action and emotion emerge from the body and imagination, not thought.
"The performer learns to generate emotions and presence in the moment."
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While rooted in exploring acting as a process, The Laz Process is also for dancers, singers, musicians, writers and artists of life--anyone seeking to inhabit the present fully, cultivate responsiveness and bring living presence to their work.
"This is not a technique but a way of being --of living and creating in the immediacy of the present moment"
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