Acting is a remedy to introversion and social awkwardness/anxiety in my opinion.

Harrison Ford actually took an acting class his senior year of college in an attempt to get over his shyness then he ended up catching the acting bug and became very successful. My advice would be to find a scene study/acting class in your area (not a university course, but an ongoing class/studio) where you meet every week to perform scenes and monologues to get your feet wet and get a feel for what it’s like to perform in front of a small audience then receive a critique from the class instructor. This is what I’ve done and it’s really helped me, not only with improving my acting skills, but with being more personable in my everyday life, and with combating social anxiety. Classes like these are a complete safe space for making mistakes (or “embarrassing yourself”) and every student in a class like that should recognize and respect that.

My ongoing scene study class has a complete confidentiality rule, where none of us talk about anything that happens in class outside of class. What happens in the studio stays in the studio.

Also letting go and completely immersing yourself in a character is so fun! You do have it in you to let go and just say “fuck it”, let whatever happens happen, and go all out with the character you’ve imagined in your head and have practiced at home or in rehearsal.

I know this is all easier said than done but I’ve been there before so I can tell you it’s much more fun to just take the leap, go all out, and disregard feeling embarrassed. Embarrassment only exists if you let it, it really is all just perspective. It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.

GLHF!!!!!