This week’s column will be a bit different than my usual offering because I wanted to share with you some great stuff that came from my tea date with Jessica Bendinger (she wrote Bring It…
Posts tagged craft
The Three C’s
At a recent speaking engagement, I was asked: “What do you look for in an actor?” (Note: This is probably my least favorite question.) Because actors so frequently ask this almost totally irrelevant question, I…
Staged Readings
I’ve written before about When to Say No and When to Work for Free, but I want to address something very specific that often straddles a line in this area: the staged reading. Several times…
Casting the Actor vs. the Character
Actors are intense people. This is no secret to anyone who has ever been an actor. Or known an actor. Or watched an actor. It just comes with the territory. In order to be the…
Everyone’s a Critic
I was gearing up to write the first in a series of columns on “How We Can Make Your Job Easier” (and the amazing, wonderful suggestions you’ve emailed to me since I posed the question…
How to “Make It”
I was having a conversation with a working actor friend of mine (yes, a real working actor: a series regular) about another less-frequently working actor mutual friend. We both know him to be amazingly talented…
Actors with Class
Many casting directors say that they read actors’ resumes from the bottom, up. When they say that, they’re letting you know that they place an emphasis on an actor’s training. While I read the whole…
Don’t Go Changin’
Actors, why do you do this? Why do you change your read between prereads and callbacks? Why? If you do something at prereads that gets you invited to callbacks, why would you go and change…