Sentence examples for surface performer from inspiring English sources

Both Davidson and Boston-based trans improviser Lorelei Erisis agree that certain improv styles can surface performer biases such as when one performer plays the "straight man" to another's off-kilter character.

" "Kiki & Herb" is a comedy, at least on the surface, but the performers are serious people who have managed to smuggle into their act a fair degree of theatrical and musical sophistication.

The pain of these characters, while rarely explored directly, is never far from the surface and the performers themselves often achieve an improvisational feel to their work that never punctures the film's tone.

There's a crackling surface there for a performer".

Or reveal a rich inner life a truer, more melancholy self lodged beneath the surface of the successful performer.

Her American translator, David Ives, has said in the past: "Half the reason her plays get done is because actors want to do them… there's a crackling surface there for a performer".

It's one thing to say that "in the heat of an interview," as Simmons would write later on his Facebook page -- another to have those quotes surface when a beloved performer's apparent suicide has public attention focused on the issue of depression.

The most difficult player to assess is Federer himself, who may be the world's dominant performer on most surfaces, but has yet to make an impression in three visits to Roland Garros.

That means a performer who polishes the brassy surface of everything to a blinding gleam.

On the surface Ms. Notaro, a trim, rumpled Los Angeles performer who has one album, called "Good One"; a podcast called "Professor Blastoff"; and who regularly appeared on "The Sarah Silverman Show," seems like a conventional and very sharp deadpan comedian.

Come to think of it, you could say that all of the performers here are, on the surface, slightly miscast.