Best of LA, then BBC Breakfast. 35K weekly hits, then THR pilot. Goodbye Roxbury, hello showcase. Westside happy hours became essential as I did more casting, more writing, more epiphany-filled living. Being “thirty silly” rocks!…
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Feedback on Bringing the Kids Along
So, last week’s column on “Bringing the Kids Along” was met with quite a bit of follow-up email. Here are two items I wanted to share. This first one is from Renee Scott, a wonderful…
The First Thing an Actor Should Do in LA
Over the course of the next few months, I’m going to be bringing some of the chapters from my first book — Casting Qs: A Collection of Casting Director Interviews — here to The Actors…
Taped Submissions at Actors Access
This might be a good Your Turn. You know how you put out the breakdown for Another Harvest Moon a while back and it’s not casting [non-names] until August? Well, you know how people with…
Bringing the Kids Along
Ooh, got a great question from a reader recently. What is the best way to handle being a mother in this business? I am currently (and surprisingly!) pregnant, and moving to LA in a year….
A New Experience
I have earned a living as a writer for the better part of a decade. But, as anyone who has followed my career knows, I write nonfiction. I get paid to write nonfiction. No one…
What If My Old Agent Is Badmouthing Me?
I am finding your articles very interesting but I have come up with a question that I’m not sure has been addressed. I’m wondering if you could tell me some scenarios of what happens when…
Authenticity vs. Type
Last week, I touched on the whole “authenticity vs. type” dilemma that many actors face. You hear so much about the importance of knowing your primary type and marketing yourself accordingly that you might lose…
Featured Is a Bogus Credit
A few weeks back, I got a Google Alert with my name in it. The link sent me to David Fairhurst’s brilliantly funny column — Mr. Bad Example Strikes Again! — in Backstage. It started…
We’re All Fans
Let’s talk about Paul Potts. In just under a week, he went from shy sales rep at Carphone Warehouse to opera-singing superstar winner of Britain’s Got Talent. On message boards and in blog entries worldwide,…