How to overcome stage fear?

Answer 1

Avoid eye contact with the audience. Works really well :)

Answer 2

Well...I've never been in a play, but I'm in band and we have band concerts. It's not too hard, really. At least not for me. I actually feel like I'm dreaming when I'm up there. I don't know why. It just doesn't feel real to me. But, anyway...just try to forget about all the people. When you are on stage, it will be dark in the audience and you will only vaguely see the first and second row.

Hope that helps. Also get lots of sleep and rehearse what ever it is, whether it be lines, music, moves, whatever. Maybe even get a friend to practice with.

Answer 3

Practise a lot..at home, in front of the mirror or your family or friends. and each time u practise, imagine that say, 100 people are sitting in front of you.
And keep imagining that on the final day, you walk on to the stage confidently , put up a great show, and leave everyone impressed. It helps. Run this imaginary movie in your head over and over.

On the final day, when u go on the stage and speak/perform, act confident, even if u are not feeling that way, and dont look at the audience's faces. look straight ahead of you, at the wall or somewhere above the faces.

You will do well.Good luck!! :)

Answer 4

Stage fright can be overcome in many ways
)you can practise at home before the mirror so that you can be sure not make any mistake .(you can also imagine a crowd in front of you.)

You can make notes which you can revise before your stage show and also help you if you forget.

Try to smile before you are on stage because people usually see your face expression & makes a good impression .

Never avoid eyes contact with your audience(which shows them you are intrested in them.

Hope this might have helped you.

Good luck.

Answer 5

stage fear is for the freshers
they fear about the response of the audience ....
This should not happen....
Because you are first You need not to think about it ..
you had to play the best part what you can..
then you can be noticed by them
Then the real thing happens Once you got the fame... then only stage fear should be there.. because once they know you .they will develop a different idea about you . and you had to be like that..

stage fear is not much importance the freshers than the experts.......

Answer 6

People will probably get on here and tell you picture everyone naked, or in there underwear, or some other silly thing like that. The best thing to do, for me anyway, is to find someone in your audience that you're comfortable with in a one-on-one situation, and act as if you're giving your presentation to them. Of course, you don't want to stare at them. Look around while you're talking. While looking around, don't make eye contact with anyone. Instead, look at their shoulder, or the top of their head, or an empty chair in the audience. These are all things that kind of helped me when I first started giving presentations in front of a group. Another thing that might help is to practice your presentations at home, by yourself, then do it in front of a friend or a few friends. The most important thing to do in preparing for a presentation is KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. As long as you know your material, and you present it in an effective manner, the presentation can be considered a success. Take any opportunity to talk infront of a group. Even if it's at the bar. You have to be able to talk to anyone. Go up to a group of strangers in a bar and give them an impromtu briefing on what you did that day. It doesn't matter what you talk about. Just talk about something. That last one will yield a great variety of results. None of which are bad. You have to learn to deal with a hostile audience too. Try some of this stuff out and see if it helps. If you only do one of the things I recommended, let it be the at home practice by yourself, in front of a mirror, and with people you trust. Have them take notes on things that they see as a potential problem. Things like saying "um", fiddling with your hands, putting your hands in your pockets, touching your face, etc... These are all things that tell an audience; A: I'm very nervous. And B: I have no idea what I'm talking about. And, don't forget to smile. :)

Answer 7

Stage fright is a good thing. It means you really care about your performance. I would not recommend trying to get rid of it. Instead work with it. It might give you an extra boost of energy. I throw that energy into my role. Just focus on your character, and the interactions you need to have. It takes practice. I believe it is a vital key to good performance.

Carol Burnett's autobography talks about a time when she became so confident in what she did that she had no stage fright, and her performance was met with dismal reviews.

Answer 8

practice over and over and over again. I'm an actor and I know that everyone has different reactions to the stage. For example, i feel sick before every show, but once im on stage, im fine. My advice is just have fun, BE the character your playing, forget the audience, this is your life of your character, live it on stage! and remember, the audience loves you.

Answer 9

Hi there!

You definitely have to believe in yourself. But I realize it’s easier to say than to do, so I will try and explain it to you better.

What's really important is that you first of all are as well prepared as you possibly can be. Practice and make sure you know your stuff!. Practice. Practice. Practice. That alone will help you to feel more confident.

There is something else that your drama classes and your teacher can help you with and that is a concept called ‘public solitude.’ If you can, take a GOOD acting class. (If you are an actor, you should be taking regular classes anyway.) They will teach you that. You learn how to develop public solitude, which is really feeling comfortable in any situation and being able to block out everything around you and focus solely on ‘being’ the character you are interpreting and on your scene partner. The exercise and acting classes in general will help you to feel more comfortable in front of people while performing.

Something else that is crucial is that you need to focus on what you want and not on what you don't want. You need to focus your mind on what being focused and comfortable in your scene will be like and not on the things you are afraid will happen if you mess up.
Why? What will that do for you? Let me give you an example.

If I tell you right now, "Don't think about a yellow elephant! Don't think about it!"

What's the first thing that comes into your mind?

You don't have to tell me, because I already know. It's the yellow elephant isn't it? Why is that? Because that's how the human brain works. That's how your brain works. In order to forget something, our brain first has to understand what it is supposed to forget. How does it do that? By first bringing it to the forefront and creating an image around it.

So what does that have to do with your feeling comfortable while speaking? Everything!

If you tell yourself before you go into the audition or during any performance itself things like; "I hope I don't mess up. I hope I don't get nervous. I hope I don't forget anything. I hope I don't freeze in front of the group.", you are putting yourself in a position to think about what you don't want. Your imagination will go there and recreate that image of all those negative things you keep telling yourself. Your focus is on the wrong things!

So now you know what you have to do? What kinds of things will you tell yourself the next time you go into a performance or an audition? Positive things! Good things! You will give a great performance! You will be very comfortable in front of your audience! See yourself doing that. If you have to, close your eyes, BREATHE deeply before you go in and visualize yourself being brilliant. How confident will you be while you are performing? You know your lines. You know what you have to do. You are in the character. You feel it! You can see that you feel what you are acting! You are confident and you will be brilliant!

When you talk like that to yourself, you will feel your posture change. You will be erect and your shoulders will be back if you really feel it and if you really believe it. So BE confident and FEEL confident and you will BE the best that you can be.

And breathe!

To overcome nervous energy, speak at a louder tone of voice, use gestures and BREATHE deeply. Be conscious of that.

Hope that helps!

Tony
ceo
www.actingcareerstartup.com/acs-blog.html

Answer 10

Fear is likely of the unknown
Mentally rehearse the entire event on stage with tons of applause at the end
Your fear will diminish with each rehearsal you do unless,,,

Maybe you really do not want to go "on stage"

Answer 11

Hypnotherapy is probably one of the best ways to cure a phobia.
Your phobia has probably got a name, have a look at this list of phobias
http://www.hypnotherapistregister.com/Phobia%20List.htm
You will find some helpful information on the following link.
http://www.hypnotherapistregister.com/Fears%20-%20Phobias.htm
Or you can download self help hypnosis from http://www.hypnosisdownloads.com/?879
Good Luck