This week’s Your Turn is a collection of emails I’ve received without questions. Just want to be sure you wonderful readers know that your feedback (even when you don’t have a question for me) is…
Browsing Category The Actors Voice
Help Me Help You
Look, I love your agent. I really really do. Your manager too. Great people. Absolutely amazing, wonderful folks who pitch you like the star that you are and negotiate fantastic deals for you. But sometimes…
Compromising Values for a Role
I submitted for a film a few weeks ago and was called in to audition. I was given the filming dates up front and said, “Wait, I can’t do the first two days because that’s…
Save the Drama for Your Mama
I have a favorite saying (well, it’s one of many favorite sayings, actually). “Drama costs extra.” I use that statement, most of the time, when telling producers interviewing me for a casting gig that I’m…
What Makes an Actor SAG-Eligible?
I read your article on the new SAG contracts but I am still unclear as to which of the SAG low budget contracts you can actually use to eventually get into the union. I have…
When to Work for Free
Most artist types work for free. Screenwriters send out spec scripts, painters create non-commissioned masterpieces, poets keep journals filled with brilliance no one may ever see, and actors devote hundreds of hours to character development…
Stage Names
My question is about stage names. I’m not an Equity or SAG member yet, but I’ve been getting consistent work in some fantastic theatre, and have recently been cast in a show that will be…
Demo Reels
One of an actor’s most essential marketing tools is the demo reel. Yet no one element of the actor’s marketing arsenal has so many variables as the demo reel. How long should it be? Can…
Unprofessional Actors: Blacklist Behavior
I have been reading your column for several months and I particularly enjoyed How To Get Blacklisted. First, I must say that I am astonished that there are actors behaving in the manner you described….
Sign In, Sign Out
You’re at an audition. You’ve arrived early for your appointment, as all good actors should, and you’ve been waiting patiently to be seen. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. It’s coming up on an hour since…