Backstage

Bill Howey wants you to stop moving and stay still to make the greatest impact.

Having acted in more than 200 TV shows and films, Allen Miller gives first-hand advice on how to channel audition adrenaline into your performance.

Milton Justice wants to see the experience behind the words, not just a re-creation of the text.

Stonestreet Studios' Gary O. Bennett wants performers to take screen acting seriously and stop viewing it as secondary to the stage.

Acting coach Joseph Pearlman advises bringing your unique self to everything you do.

Santa Monica Playhouse co-artistic directors Chris DeCarlo and Evelyn Rudie want to see smarter submissions.

The Second City-Hollywood's Marc Warzecha extols the virtues of improv at such places as The Groundlings, iO, The Second City and UCB.

John Pallotta teaches actors how to achieve emotional honesty via the principles of innocence, vulnerability, instincts and imagination.

National Michael Chekhov Association's Charlie Bowles and Lisa Dalton explain why it's important for actors to leave behind the familiar.

Advice

Before an audition, Sterling Studio's Constance Tillotson says, know the character's intent.

The Craft