I have a rant. I think your column is cool, and fun to read. The thing is though; I don’t find it to be 100% good to have actors always read it. My point being…
Browsing Category The Actors Voice
When to Fire Your Agent
We started this series last week with How to Fire Your Agent. Now it’s time to look at When To Fire Your Agent (or Manager). Next week, we’ll head into territory like What to Look…
Comments on Two Letters
Wow! I’ve never received so much email on a single topic. This week’s Your Turn is just a sampling of the emails you’ve sent in reaction to the column Two Letters and last week’s Your…
How to Fire Your Agent
I’m going to launch a series of columns on agents (and managers) with the topic of terminating your relationship. Huh? I know, it seems like I’m going backwards here, but I think there are quite…
Bitter Actor Syndrome, Be Gone!
You quoted my letter in last week’s column, but what is your point? My “managers” will tell you I have the most positive attitude of all their clients. I spend 30-36 hours a week on…
Taking the Meeting
Somewhere along the actor’s journey (between the days of “submitting and hoping for a preread” and reaching “offer only” status), actors will do something called “taking the meeting” in order to get cast. This is…
Please Show Us Good and Bad Audition Footage!
I’ve been reading your articles religiously for the past six months and they are very helpful. You mentioned recently that you are trying to post actual video auditions of those who really just nail it…
Two Letters
A couple of weeks ago, the new edition of Self-Management for Actors hit town. Right away, we packaged up copies to mail out to folks who’d pre-purchased through our website. We also sent out promo…
Big-City Agent… Regrets?
My daughter has been taking acting classes for almost two years now. We live outside of Memphis and have found it very hard to get auditions in this area. We actually have an agent out…
In-Room Direction
This week, we’re going to take a look at in-room direction. You’ll recall that I’ve covered the audition redirect in a previous column, but this time I’m looking at the ways in which directors, CDs,…