Trevor Weaver

Trevor Weaver is Managing Director of the California based performing arts company, Young Performers Theater. Trevor Weaver spends half of his time directing musical theater for ages 6-17 years old and the other half of his time coaching young people in how to act in television and film. Trevor Weaver is an avid believer in the power of creativity and moonlights as a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, including short stories. Trevor Weaver is currently writing two books on acting techniques and the power of creativity. Trevor Weaver is married with two small children, one boy and one girl.

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Trevor Weaver Education

Trevor Weaver studied at the prestigious Stella Adler Conservatory in Manhattan. He also studied in Los Angeles with the re-known Lee Strasberg institute.

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Trevor Weaver Employment

Trevor Weaver is the Managing Director to the Caifornia based Performing Arts group, Young Performers Theater. He also runs Trevor Weaver's School of Television and Film Acting. When Trevor Weaver is not teaching, he is writing articles and books on acting and creativity.

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Your Fountain Of Youth: Reclaiming Your Child-like Senses

Remember what it was like to be a kid? Everything seemed possible! We would imagination big and dream even bigger. We would awake each day with an unbridled sense of optimism and a real belief that that day would without a doubt be better than the previous. We had drive, purpose, meaning, and that was all before lunch. Well, what if I told you that you that you can have those kind of days again by simply summoning that part of your brain that created and stored those memories? Grow up! Stop goofing off! Get on the straight and narrow! These are the words and phrases that bombard us throughout our adolescents and young adulthood. As we prepare for life as adults, society demands that we start acting a certain way and begin to conform to “the rules” as a grown up. While this kind of attitude and behavior does prepare us for being productive members of a society, it also sadly compels us to forget our “childish ways.” We abandon our sense of wonder, curiosity, and optimism that is so important for enjoying life to its very fullest. Creativity is the mother of invention! As a child, we create and are creative from the moment we awake to the moment we go to sleep. When did it become a rule that as an adult you need to lose this very important sense to our identities? But that is exactly what many of us do. We get into our routines, our ways of interacting in the world as “productive members.” our senses of securities, of wanting to be accepted by our peer group becomes dominant in our day to day lives and we just slowly lose our grip on the best part of what it means to be human: Creating, inventing, believing, and dreaming. It is after all what separates us from our lower primates. Learning to tap into your “inner child” should be a daily requirement. Getting in touch with our giggles, wiggles, and highly imaginative and creative sideswould make life SO much easier and a whole lot more fun!  All it takes is 10 to 15 minutes per day on your coffee break, lunch break, driving home from work, driving to work, at breakfast, before your shower, or whenever you feel you have the time. All you need is you and your infinite mass of grey matter! Just for fun, why don’t you take a moment right now before you finish or right after you finish this article to illicit a feeling, thought, emotion, idea or whatever from when you were a child. Of course, we are speaking about only the good feelings from childhood, the others you can forget about. Sit quietly in a room or in your car or office and let your self slow down your pace a bit. Take several deep breaths inhaling and exhaling and then think back to a special time, place, or area you spent time there as a child. Some place that made you feel invincible, inspired, like you could take on the world. An area that at that moment everything felt perfect and right. This could be you on the playground at school or at a field trip or hanging out with friends or family. What ever the memory, really try to put yourself back there in your mind and allow yourself to remember how you felt. Once you have that feeling, really ask yourself? What is it that was making me feel this way? There are no right or wrong answers or a limit on how many things, thoughts, or feelings that gets you here. You may even write your thoughts down and it could help substantiate or reinforce your feelings. Now, take a second and try to recreate that feeling in the present time. Use the tools you wrote down or through memory recall and try to recreate those feeling of optimism! Don’t be too frustrated or angry with yourself if you aren’t able to recreate the feeling immediately. Your brain is very much a muscle and it requires exercise. Once you do this exercise three times you should be able to recreate the feelings fairly easy. Once you do, you can take this childhood wonder and create anything you want in your life! For a more in depth look at memory recall or regression technique, consider joining our community at innercreative.com or creativology.com There you will meet other like-minded folks who are living in the creative and would love to know your name! In creativity, Trevor Michael-Owens

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Welcome to Play and Profundity! We are a small, yet proud company filled with creative shenanigans everywhere! We offer classes, camps, and workshops for ages 3 years old all the way up to 99 years old and it is our belief that every person can benefit greatly from creative expression and discovery. 

We offer a wide range of classes for every age group and we invite you to discover something new about yourself!

We at Play and Profundity believe strongly in the interactions of people, both young and old and the wonderous effects that this can have on our day to day lives!

It is with this belief we are often found quoting one of our favorite playwrights, Sir Oscar Wilde: "I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being." 

Well, what are you waiting for? Take a class. Meet a new friend. Experience humanity outside a box. We'll be waiting for you!

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Play And Profundity: Release Your Inner Creative, Creatively!

  Creativity. What exactly is it? Where does it come from? Is it diving inspiration? Or does a synapse go off in some part of our left brain hemisphere that essentially says, "aha!"

Humans, as a species are naturally curious, driven, and innovative. But what happens as we become adults and matriculate into the greater world? Take on careers, families, responsibilities. Life seems to become for lack of a better word, humdrum. The quirky ideas, inspirations, and insights we had as children or young adolescents gets downgraded and filed back into the nether regions of our grey matter and we just seem to accept it as the way things ought to be. Does it REALLY have to be this way? I say emphatically, "No!" and "Know!"

Society for all its good intentions really likes to pigeon hole humans into rote classifications. It's just easier and makes the most sense. Thinking outside of the box and noncomforming makes everything a bit messy. So, that's what we do mostly as responsible adults. We Conform. We forget about what it was that made us get up every morning when we were in school and made us excited. We forget that as children we would play all day long and create these worlds where anything seemed possible! Where our dreams and lives of the future were only limited by our imaginations.

I distinctly remember that as a boy of 12 or 13, my friend and I would spend countless hours creating elaborate adventures that took place in a backyard or side alley. In retrospect, I remember feeling so exhilarated from our creative exploits. I think from time to time, what happened to that feeling of unstoppability. Was my need to grow up and be responsible a by product of age or maturity? Or did I just get the cue from society and step into line?

As a creative Coach today, a lot of my adult students come to me desperately wanting to escape this wall or box that they have built around themselves. Many of them hold onto this idea that it is so crucial to keep this mature mask on when in public. And, I say in some respects we do have many different personas and masks that we must present in the greater world. However, the real problem lies in many adults wearing their public masks and personas so often that it is who they become. They get lost in a role and then that same role loses them. The real them. The person they were as a child or young adolescent. 

Creative play for adults is just as important as it is for children. The same socialization skills and interactions that are learned by a child are very much the same among adults. In many of my classes, workshops and seminars, I spend a great deal of the first few classes trying to deconstruct people's ideas about the rules of being a responsible adult and teach them to recognize the creative creature that is begging to break free. Once people recognize that expressing and or tapping into a creative force or energy (one I feel that every single human being has the capabilty to do) is within their grasp they simply need to just take a hold of it and let it do its thing!

Its amazing the clarity that comes to a person once they grab hold of their creative mojo. I've had many students tell me that they feel like they can create or conquer anything. People feel a true sense of inspiration and purpose. I, myself, when tapping into my creative juices can feel this sense of child-like wonder and a sense of freedom that I CAN create my own world!

But, How does one feel this creativity? What's the secret? The magic potion? All of my students always seem to wait with baited breath when this question comes up in a class or workshop. I always smile and simply say, "There's no secret. Only you and your environment. That really is the whole trick. To allow yourself the time, patience and desire to revel in your own creative energy field. Creative exercises that we do in my classes help with this. But, the real trick is your own environment. What is going on around you? Who are you socializing with? What is that little voice in your head telling you every minute of the day? Once these  items are addressed, you can dip into you energy reserves any second of any day.

Some don't belief it when I tell them that place, objects and people all have negative energy. It you are not able to recognize the negativity of a place or building or apt or person, than those with creative energy blocks may be falling victim to their environment and social circles.

Taking stock and learning what it is that feeds your soul and lifts you up will allow you the wisdom to change a negative environment or social situation, in turn helping you tap into a wealth of creative mojo!

In Creativity,

Trevor Michael Owen

Play & Profundity: Releasing Your Inner Creativity

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