Advice

Charting Your Career With Software

It's called PerformerTrack, but it's really much more than just an "online version." For helping actors keep track of all aspects of their professional lives, it's one of the most comprehensive bits of software I've encountered.

Newcomer Conundrum, Curse Clarification

I've heard a lot lately that casting directors are only looking at those with credits right now. What should I do?

Repeating a Great Moment Night After Night?

Stanislavsky discovered that the way to recall a past experience and express the emotion elicited by that experience is to be relaxed and in touch with your five senses.

Bukowski and Popsicles in a Hollywood Meeting

I'm sitting across from one of the biggest directors in Hollywood, and he's trying desperately to remember the name of a film.  "Carla?  What's the name of that picture?  You know, about the pirates?"

Team Players

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Erika Sellin spent many an hour perfecting pirouettes as an aspiring ballerina.

Timing Tiff, Sexist Stiff

"I’m acting in a short film and I’m having a problem with the director. He is really dismissive of me and makes weird, sexist comments about me, right in front of my face."

Brendan Ryan

Brendan Ryan's experience with the genre, his choice of audition material, and his personable attitude made his audition and his callback particularly successful.

Powerful Influences, Decisions, and Memories

"Sometimes, the most powerful word in an actor's toolbox is the simple word 'no.'"