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…
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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…
Talent Agent in Winnipeg with Questions about Casting
I am a talent agent in Winnipeg. Winnipeg has become a very busy center recently. We have two principal casting directors and two extra casting directors. Both are starting to venture into principal and commercial…
Agency Commissions on Nonunion Work
This week, I’m going to focus on an issue that’s been a recent topic at the Hollywood Happy Hour Yahoo group. Hollywood Happy Hour is a networking group that Nelson Aspen and I founded several…
How to Become a Talent Agent in Philadelphia
I am interested in becoming a talent agent and I live in Philadelphia. In my day job, I am a human resources recruiter, so I know the similarities of being an agent are not that…
So You Want an Agent
I know a lot of actors who have had the great fortune of signing with agents this year. I call this “great fortune” because of the way these actors talked about how desperately they needed…
How Do I Get an Agent?
As a beginning actor, what is the best way to get an agent? Is it all in your headshots? Is it all in your cover letter? Your resumé? If you have experience in TV? Plays?…
Average Number of Auditions?
If there is such a thing, what exactly is the average number of auditions an agent should be sending talent on per month? You already set me up for the answer you know is coming…
Time to Drop My Agent?
My agency hasn’t gotten me any auditions since I signed with them in January. I’m thinking about changing agencies, but I really like my agency and I don’t want to leave them. However, for my…
What Is a Referral?
Often, actors will notice that — in various publications about agents and managers — actor submissions are accepted “with industry referral only.” Huh? Isn’t a referral something you get from your general practitioner when looking…