John Sudol - father of Alison Sudol, a.k.a. A Fine Frenzy

A Fine Frenzy

Alison Sudol , known professionally as A Fine Frenzy , is a US alternative singer and songwriter and pianist. Her debut album, One Cell in the Sea, was released on July 17, 2007, and peaked at number 91 on the Billboard 200 chart...

  - is a creative professional in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, CA; he has worked as a director and casting director. He is a noted acting

Acting

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play....

 coach

Coach

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 in Los Angeles.

He lived in Seattle from 1982-1990; during this time, he founded a theater company, an actor's workshop as well as a casting company in the Pacific northwest. He returned to Los Angeles in 1990 and opened up The John Sudol Acting Studio in 2001.

Sudol specializes in teaching actors and business professionals emotional expressiveness through the seven universal human emotions

Emotions and culture

Emotions are universal phenomena; however, they are affected by culture. While some emotions are universal and are experienced in similar ways as a reaction to similar events across all cultures, other emotions show considerable cultural differences in their antecedent events, the way they are...

, as described by Dr. Paul Ekman

Paul Ekman

Paul Ekman is a psychologist who has been a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He has been considered one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century...

, Dr. David Matsumoto

David Matsumoto

David Matsumoto is an internationally acclaimed author, psychologist and judoka. His areas of expertise include culture, emotion, facial expressions, nonverbal behavior and microexpressions...

 and other researchers in the field of psychology

Psychology

Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

. Examination of this form of nonverbal communication

Nonverbal communication

Nonverbal communication is usually understood as the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless messages. Messages can be communicated through gestures and touch , by body language or posture, by facial expression and eye contact...

 was seen in action on the American television series, Lie to Me

Lie to Me

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.

As Sudol's work is more geared towards helping actors book gigs in film, television and commercials, he teaches more about facial movements

Facial expression

A facial expression one or more motions or positions of the muscles in the skin. These movements convey the emotional state of the individual to observers. Facial expressions are a form of nonverbal communication. They are a primary means of conveying social information among humans, but also occur...

 than body language

Body language

Body language is a form of non-verbal communication, which consists of body posture, gestures, facial expressions, and eye movements. Humans send and interpret such signals almost entirely subconsciously....

. He teaches about distortions, the differences between stage

Stage

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 and film

Film

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 acting as well as the science behind how individuals are wired to express emotion.

See also

• Emotions and Culture
  Emotions and culture
  Emotions are universal phenomena; however, they are affected by culture. While some emotions are universal and are experienced in similar ways as a reaction to similar events across all cultures, other emotions show considerable cultural differences in their antecedent events, the way they are...
  
  
• Emotion classification
  Emotion classification
  The means by which we distinguish one emotion from another is a hotly contested issue in emotion research and affective science. This page summarises some of the major theories.-Basic and Complex Emotions:...
  
  
• Microexpression
  Microexpression
  A microexpression is a brief, involuntary facial expression shown on the face of humans according to emotions experienced. They usually occur in high-stakes situations, where people have something to lose or gain. Unlike regular facial expressions, it is difficult to fake microexpressions...
  
  
• Wizards Project