Carolina FrittoliApplicant number 714March 28, 2014Uta Hagen - Substitution/TransferSubstitution/Transfer is the process of integrating your own experience of life into the theater. Find counterparts such as 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 deep into the character rather than putting on 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, but becoming a character was good. Uta Hagen, born June 12, 1919, was a German-born American actress and drama teacher who died on January 14, 2004 at the age of 20. 84. Uta Hagen found herself in the element of theater when she first joined a production at Wisconsin High School, discovering her interest in acting. Hagen began to develop a deeper interest in acting and began studying acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After leaving New York to spend only a semester at her university, she got her first professional role in Hamlet. From this point in her life, she began to get more and more involved in different plays and set goals for herself in the areas she wanted to work in, which made her a great director and an actress. Uta Hagen was blacklisted in Hollywood where she found the opportunity to get involved in several different theaters. Hagen has shown her involvement on Broadway, television, film and has continually developed as an actress. Hagen won the Tony Award several times and was nominated for the American The...... middle of paper ......ts for being comfortable and able to show himself the way Uta Hagen wanted.Uta Hagen has performed technique substitution/transfer worldwide, having different practitioners and teachers able to share with their own students. A good 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 by simply being in character. The actor is invited to position himself between imagination and reality. Use your own experience and inner self to become a new person. Uta Hagen wanted an actor's true talent to shine through by creating a transparent layer between the actor and the character. Substitution/transfer was a great technique developed by Uta Hagen who was a great actor and theater teacher..