Regarding your suggested resolutions, what about child actors? I’ve got all the love and support I need from my parents, but this situation can be overwhelming. I can’t volunteer for casting directors. I can’t go…
Browsing Category The Actors Voice
Taped Auditions
So, you live out-of-market (somewhere other than where casting is taking place) and you’ve received that glorious call: “We want you to audition for a role. Put yourself on tape and get it to us…
Do Agents Pass on Projects without Telling the Actors about the Offers?
I just finished reading your article on Personality Conflicts and I had a question about one of the two actors you’d never call in again if the choice were yours. The actor that “blew off”…
Working Actor Resolutions
It’s that time of year when folks create a list of resolutions for the New Year, review successes and failures from the past year, and set goals that may or may not make it to…
Hollywood Networking How-To
I am new to LA and I have heard a few actor friends tell the disturbing tale that in order to ever get work I must network like a mad woman, attending every quasi-political function…
Personality Conflicts
It is always fascinating to me when a frustrated actor says, “That casting director HATES me! No matter what I do, she won’t give me a break!” Isn’t the very fact that the actor has…
Interning: An Enlightening Experience!
This week, I received such a great email in response to last week’s suggestion that every actor should work in a casting office in some capacity at some point, that I will be sharing that…
Callback Clothing
An actor friend of mine suggested that I write a column addressing the “myth” that actors should always wear the same outfit they wore to prereads at callbacks. Is it a myth? Or do we…
Gathering Information Before an Audition
Your Turn You say a casting director will have more information about a role than an actor. Can you give some examples? Sometimes on film or television auditions, the advice we are given seems to…
What’s in Your Actor Bag?
First, what is an actor bag? Well, it’s that messenger bag, backpack, or gym bag in the trunk of your car with all of your actor goodies inside. Goodies? Headshots (with resumes already affixed, whether…