Advice

Stop Telling Yourself Lies About Your Career!

If only we could stop telling stories that contradicted our hearts, who would we be? Amazing Adventurers. Dynamic Doers. Beautiful Bad-Asses. Courageous Creators. But it’s hard because we’re invested in our stories.

Why Your Representation Needs You To Network

KPA manages talent for films, TV, theater, and commercials. Shields says it's important that casting directors know reps as well as they know talent.

3 Essential Steps To Keeping Your Representation

Fostering a healthy, long-lasting relationship with them takes work just like any other partnership. Here are some helpful tips to follow if you are serious about keeping your rep on your side.

4 Ways To Handle Not Getting the Part

The hard reality is that most of us will audition for a lot of jobs before we ever land one. Probably the single toughest part of being an actor is letting go of the jobs that we do not book.

Why Your Emotional History Is Important as an Actor

An area in an actor’s work that is often neglected is emotional history. With history comes emotion, and it shows up in what the character says and does.

Why You Need to Embrace Rejection

Our normal human reaction is is to resist feeling like crap. We don’t want to hurt. We don’t want to go to uncomfortable places, and we resist it in the work. It scares us; we do everything to avoid it.

5 Things Every Filmmaker Should Know Before They Step on Set

So you want to be in the movie business? The road to the red carpet is a long and difficult one. It’s honestly a miracle that anything ever gets made. Although Hollywood continues to look for a formula, there’s not one. Every project has its specific challenges. And ...

How To Get the Most Out of Networking Studios

Networking studios get a bad rap (along with the industry types who participate in them). The perception being: They profit from serving as middlemen

Why Non-Union Actors Should Submit For Union Projects

A non-union actor can audition for and be hired for a union project. And depending on the project plus governing union, the actor can easily be hired either as union or non-union.