After thousands of auditions over the years, I’ve seen it hundreds and hundreds of times.
Diarrhea in auditions.
Eeew. Really?
Oh, not that kind. This common audition illness does not require Immodium AD or Pepto Bismol or anything like that. The diarrhea I speak of is a VERBAL diarrhea.
You know, the kind where you enter the audition room Read more >>
The Jason Momoa Audition for Game of Thrones seems to have gone viral and there’s some good reason for it. There are definitely some great lessons to be learned from it for every actor and I will share 5 of them with you now.
Although, I’ll admit, the moment I saw the Jason Momoa audition for Game of Thrones circulating virally on Facebook for the first time, I stopped in my tracks. Here’s why… Read more >>
Self-Taped Audition. Do those words make you cringe or smile? Love ‘em or hate ‘em self-taped auditions a part of your acting career…and it looks like they’re here to stay. But what happens after you’ve done it….after you click UPLOAD?
Your acting career is about to take off!…
That’s how it feels when you decide to be an actor. You made that decision; suddenly the world is open to endless possibilities. You can already feel your feet on that Red Carpet!
And then it happens…
The endless possibilities for your acting career that once seemed like a delightful buffet of delicious treats now feels like an endless array of offers, tools, classes, coaches and…well…decisions, decisions, decisions. Read more >>
As actors, most of the time you're focused on understanding how the biz of Hollywood works from your own perspective. But truthfully, you'd get much better results if you understood how Hollywood works from the perspective of the person from whom you want something.
And this is so true for your actor headshots. And this is why you MUST understand the Casting Director point of view about yours. In today's video, Read more >>
You're taking a big risk…(and not in a good way).
With what?
Emotional acting auditions.
You either love ‘em or you struggle with ‘em.
But here’s the thing…Even if you LOVE emotional acting auditions, you are at RISK of ruining your next emotional acting audition if you don’t read on… Read more >>
We need to talk about your acting career.
Yup. I said it. We need to talk.
You see, often times I write blogs, do videos and give acting tips and auditioning tips based on my experience in the audition room and from my experience as an executive at HBO. And those tips are all valid, solid, tangible and real. And they work. Big-time.
But today is different. Today we need to talk about the INtangible in your acting career. Read more >>
Okay, your acting agent dropped you. It may feel like the end of the world…or certainly the end of your acting career.
But it's NOT!
You have two choices in this situation, you can spiral into despair or turn it around.
In this video, you learn how to do that (turn it around, that is. I'm pretty sure you know how to spiral into despair ;)
Watch this video to see what I mean:
Knowing how to be an actor — an actor who is happy, an actor who works and has a life — can be challenging enough.
But when you have people in your life who don't support your choice, it can be even more challenging….IF, you don't have some strategies in place to help you.
The first thing you must do Read more >>
Acting lessons come from many places. And I keep asking myself how can we make sense of the seemingly senseless loss of a great talent like Robin Williams. My way of dealing with tragedy has always been to first acknowledge its innate sadness, then let it go and THEN to find a way to FEEL GOOD when I think about it.
And then I thought of you. So here are 3 acting lessons you can run with from the great performances of of Robin Williams.
