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The 2020 Pilot Season Visualize Your Way To Booking!

Acting Tips, Auditioning

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...

4 Ways to Master One-Liners

Acting Tips, Auditioning, Pilot Season

One-liners tend to be frowned upon by many, yet they are SO essential to the building blocks of a script that they are often overlooked! In my own experience, a one-liner not only allowed me to work on my favorite sitcom, Will and Grace, but it also allowed...

Why Acting Is More Than Just Memorizing Your Lines

Acting Tips, Auditioning

We hear you, actors—when you’re in the audition room, it’s easy to get caught up in the moment and just focus on the task at hand: getting your lines out and acting them to the best of your ability. But you have to remember that unless you’re taking into...

Questions About Your Audition? Here's What to Do

Acting Tips, Auditioning

If you have a question about your audition, ask before you begin. Actors want to be polite and not take up a lot of the casting director’s time during an audition, which means they often end up not asking the question that could benefit their...

Can You Chew Gum In An Audition?

Acting Tips, Auditioning

Believe it or not – I’ve seen this happen MANY times. Enough times where I have to address the topic! Are you chewing gum in auditions? Can you? Should you? Here’s what I think….

Casting Question for Teen Actors + More Answers From the Backstage Forums

Acting Tips, Auditioning

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