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8 Ways to Maximize Your Opportunities During Pilot Season for Actors
Are you an aspiring actor looking to break into the television industry? Pilot season may be your golden opportunity, but before you start sending out your headshots, you must understand the ins and outs of this highly competitive time. Continue reading as we take a...
How To Cry on Command: My Top Techniques and Tips for Actors
In the acting world, learning how to cry on command is a challenge for many actors. For emotional scenes, filmmakers and casting directors may need actors to cry real tears to put the raw feelings of the event on display. Learning how to produce tears on command can...
How to Answer “Tell Me About Yourself” & Make a Lasting Impression
You’re prepared and eager to perform as you enter the virtual audition room, but you’re surprised by a question from the casting office you were not expecting. A common audition question actors get asked by casting directors such as myself is, “Tell me about...
Zoom Audition Tips to Nail Your Next Audition
There are several things to keep in mind when you’re going in to do a zoom audition. Today, I'm covering my top Zoom audition tips. The number one thing you should be doing right now in your Zoom auditions is this, you need to be practicing. That sounds obvious, but...
Complete Guide on How to Make an Acting Reel & Why You Need One
Reels have become the go-to for industry professionals because it’s a much better way for us to get a feel for your personality, what you look like, your acting skill set and what you sound like. A professional reel is just as important as your headshot and resume, if...
4 Key Factors to a Perfect Self-Tape Audition
What does casting look for in the perfect self-tape audition? Remove the word “perfect” because there is no “perfect’ self-tape!What is a Self-Tape Audition?A self-tape audition is just like a regular in person audition except you are the one recording the audition on...
The Actor's Emergency Audition & Meeting Survival Guide
No Time? No Worries! Here's Everything You Need to Get Ready for That Audition or Meeting FAST! Actors have a habit of freaking out when, out of nowhere, they’re asked to come in for a meeting. There you are,...
The 2020 Pilot Season Visualize Your Way To Booking!
Pilot Season is upon us, folks, and that means you gotta be ready at a moment’s notice to be called in to audition for this year’s lines up of shows that may or may not get picked up. Exciting, right? Right. But something is missing for me. I feel...
Actor Time Management Tool You Need!
Lately I’ve felt really overwhelmed by all that I have to do between teaching, casting commercials, and my personal life. I must admit I’m not the best at time management. The fight or flight mode comes to mind; I get a lot done right out of the gate, checking...