2016…Will it be the best year ever in your acting career?
That's my hope.
That's what drives me — what INSPIRES ME to keep creating more training, blogs, videos, livestreams, webinars and classes to help you.
As I look back on 2015, I'm grateful to say that a lot of wonderful things happened for so many actors I've worked with. Read more >>
Will NOT having Twitter or Instagram Followers KILL Your Acting Career?
What's more important talent or followers?
In this excerpt from a recent PERISCOPE, you'll get the REAL answer about what Casting Directors look at when casting you. Read more >>
She's following you…
Who?
Your MOTHER, that's who.
As an actor, if you don't know how to use Twitter the right way, she may be your only follower.
Ruh-roh!
If you want to change that, and learn how to get Casting Directors, Directors, Producers and others of influence in Hollywood to follow you, there's one BIG thing you can (and should) do…
In the video below, you'll learn that “thing” (and several actionable ways to make that happen). Read more >>
Want to knock their socks off?
Who?
Casting Directors, of course!
I hope the answer was a big fat YES, because that’s what this blog is all about.
Specifically, how you can knock their socks off in a “general meeting”. Read more >>
Get out the crystal ball…
Because if you’re not psychic, your acting career may be in trouble…
At least that’s how it feels when it comes to knowing what Casting Directors want from you in the audition room sometimes, right?…
Or more specifically at your callback.
ESPECIALLY a callback! (You'll see what I mean when you watch the video below…) Read more >>
As someone who’s spent 20 years in the entertainment business as a Casting Director, including 14 years as Vice President of Casting at HBO, I have held a lot of auditions, seen thousands of self-taped auditions, met and hired a ton of actors.
With all that casting experience behind me, and the thousands and thousands of actors that I’ve auditioned and coached, I can tell you this with 100% certainty:
As an actor, there are specific things that you can do that make you memorable to Casting Directors (in a good way). Read more >>
Whew! It’s over…
Or is it?…
When it comes to auditioning, there are so many different skills to master and audition tools to use, sometimes it’s tough to remember to use them…especially when you're under all that audition pressure.
Probably one of the simplest, yet the most powerful audition tool that you can use comes at the end of your audition just when you thought it was over… It's this one… Read more >>
It was disturbing to watch…
And it happened over and over in audition after audition…
And you might be doing it too.
It’s what I call the “bobblehead” audition. Read more >>
What is an audition “Sides Switcheroo”? It goes something like this…
You get the sides. You work really hard on them. Maybe you get coached. You've got this! You feel good about your choices. You are thoroughly prepared and ready to go in and give it your all. The audition is just a couple of hours from now. Lots to do before then…and suddenly your phone rings. It's your agent…
Guess what? There are NEW sides and they want you to read those instead of the ones you've been working on. Ugh.
If you’ve been auditioning for a while, then you know what I’m talking about. If you're newer to the business, then it's best you learn how to master this now because it happens…often. Read more >>
Even if you don’t do musicals, there’s music in your auditions.
As an actor, you’ve probably experienced it more as rhythm and it’s more important to the health of your auditions than you realize.
Truthfully, unless you’re a dancer or a musician or a singer, you’ve probably never really considered rhythm as an important factor in your auditions… Or rather, from my perspective in Casting, having sat on the other side of your auditions for years and years, not nearly as much as you should.
In this blog, you’ll finally understand the importance of rhythm in your auditions and you'll discover 3 simple steps to break dangerous patterns easily and make your auditions sing (no pun intended). Read more >>
