Carolina FrittoliCandidate number 71428 March 2014Uta Hagen - Substitution/TransfertSubstitution/transfert is the process of incorporating one's experience into life in the theatre. Finding counterparts like your experiences with people, places and interactive things in a performance. Personalization can be achieved with this technique and is a great combination of personal experience and imagination. Actors use this technique to get deeply into the character rather than creating a facade to be the character. Realism and naturalism were found in this technique by bringing out the emotions of the actors as themselves. Uta Hagen herself believed that being a character was bad acting, however, becoming the character was great. Uta Hagen, born June 12, 1919, was a German-born American actress and acting teacher who died on January 14, 2004 at the age of 84. Uta Hagen found herself in the theatrical element when she first joined time at a Wisconsin High School production, discovering his interest in theater. Hagen began to develop a deeper interest in theater and began studying acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After leaving New York to spend just a semester at his alma mater, he landed his first professional role as Hamlet. From that point in her life, she started getting more and more involved in different shows and started setting goals where she wanted to work, which made her a great actress and a great actress. Uta Hagen was blacklisted in Hollywood where she found the opportunity to get involved in acting in different theaters. Hagen has shown involvement in Broadway, television, film and has continued to grow as an actress. Hagen has won the Tony Award multiple times and was nominated for the American The...... middle of paper......ts for feeling comfortable and able to show your true self as Uta Hagen wanted that they were.Uta Hagen has created the substitution/transference technique all over the world, having several practitioners and teachers to share with her students. An important thing to think about during this technique as an actor/student is: what are you transferring? Even if the student were to learn this technique for the first time, this technique can be easily used simply by being yourself within the character. The actor is asked to place himself between imagination and reality. Using your experience and your inner self to become a new person. Uta Hagen wanted an actor's true talent to shine through through a clear coating between the actor and the character. Substitution/transference was a great technique developed by Uta Hagen, a great actress and theater teacher.