They say it takes 21 days to create a habit – or to break one. If you want to start an exercise program, or quit eating added sugar, or wake ...
For many actors the question of whether they want to join an actors’ union is a given: hell yes, I want to join! After all, that’s the dream, isn’t it? ...
It’s been said by great directors that 90% of great directing lies in great casting. So get started the right way… We spend a lot of time here focused on the ...
When we talk about the greatest movie scenes of all time, sometimes it’s easy to forget all the work that goes into them – and all the takes. That is, ...
As awards season heats up and the Oscar nominations are grabbing entertainment headlines, one actor’s heartfelt, tortured performance in particular is the subject of much water cooler talk: of course ...
One of the primary stepping stones that most actors have from a very young age, and what often drives us to pursue a career in acting is imagination. We were ...
“The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates “You know nothing, Jon Snow.” – Ygritte, Game of Thrones “I know.” – Jon Snow, Game of Thrones Did ...
Well, we’re fully immersed in the doldrums season around the holidays where most everybody is in recovery from the overindulgence of Thanksgiving and already gearing up for the next big ...
If you’ve been a working actor for any length of time, you’ve surely experienced the surreal moment of walking into an audition waiting room and seeing a dozen or more ...
It’s hard to imagine in this social media-saturated world that there was a time before Facebook, before Twitter, even before MySpace. But that’s the ancient past of course. These days ...
If you’re dedicated to the life of the working actor, then you know as well as I do how much fun we get to have doing the best job in ...
There’s an old truism regarding computers and data: garbage in, garbage out. If your data is flawed, you’re going to end up with flawed results. That should seem obvious, right? ...
“Take all the time you need, and just go ahead and start whenever you’re ready.” As actors we’ve all heard some version of this sentence as we’re getting ready to ...
As creative professionals, it’s one of the great joys in any actor’s life to get thrown into an unexpectedly extra-creative situation while on stage or on set. Who doesn’t love ...
So you just got cast in your first professional production. Congratulations! Beyond the excitement and anticipation, for many first-time professional actors, stepping onto set can be a little intimidating. They ...
“A star does not compete with other stars around it; it just shines.” – author Matshona Dhliwayo Anyone who has been in the acting game for more than five minutes ...
“If something isn’t special, then it’s ordinary.” –Nora Roberts “It’s not usual to be unusual.” –Syed Sharukh If you’re an actor, you are special, and you already know it. Don’t ...
As actors we spend a lot of time obsessing about auditions – with good reason, of course. We are in the only profession that I know of that requires workers ...
How to Get Seen at Equity Auditions… It’s a tale as old as time – or at least as old as our modern definition of work: you get out of ...
We’re all different, we actors. Especially when it comes to the creative industries, everybody carves out their own path. No two roads are exactly the same when it comes to ...