Your first job can affect the way you think about your career. A good experience can inspire and invigorate, while a bad one might cause you to consider a different path.
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In response to our Audition Issue (Aug. 18), we heard from actors with their own audition tales. Here are two.
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Even though the agents, managers, casting directors, etc., you correspond with understand that you're trying to get work as an actor, not a copy editor or an 8th-grade English teacher, it is still important to make sure your writing is error-free.
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Charles de Gaulle said, "Treaties are like roses and young girls; they last while they last." The same can be said of entertainment contracts.
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Over the course of her career, Studio City, Calif.–based casting director Beth Holmes has been tasked with tracking down a 75-year-old diver, a bona fide bullfighter, and "a 5-foot-tall wrestler of Latino heritage."
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We hear this all the time: Be willing to suffer for your art. But how do you know if you even want to make the necessary sacrifices to be an actor?
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Ashley King didn't have to search far for inspiration to play middle-school teacher Ms. Peterson, an endearingly spacey earth mother whose classroom is full of bullies, problem children, and one devilish little girl.
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Virtual Auditions: Future or Fad?
More casting directors are using video submissions, but the real deal still matters most.
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What Acting Teacher Inspired You?
Sande Shurin—who wasn't my first teacher but was the first teacher who made me deal with me—stopped me in my tracks. I learned how to become present in a way I had never experienced.
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I now have a chance to go to Hollywood, but I've been told I need to go way back into the closet if I want to be a leading man there.
