Backstage Experts

How To Go From a C-List Actor to an A-List Actor

There is no secret but that hasn't held back the gallons of ink that have been spilled here and elsewhere trying to give insight as to how to get through that golden door. Most of the advice is exactly as good as all the rest, and precisely none of ...

Why You Need To Pay Attention To Your Heart as an Actor

Just like training your pet snake to do something – besides eat rats and constrict – it's difficult to make changes that are permanent in our own physiological system, if we don’t know how it works.

3 Steps To Surviving Post-Pilot Season Agency Roster Cuts

If you've been handed your walking papers for any reason, here are some ideas to help salvage the situation.

Why It's Important to Share Your Acting Career Goals

A lot of actors shy away from talking about their career goals. They believe that they must protect their dreams from the naysayers who warn them of how difficult the business and how "realistic" you must be when it comes to your career pursuits.

How To Define Your Type, Create Your Brand and Write a Logline

What’s the difference between a type and a brand? Do you need a brand? How do you discover what brand you are? And what’s a logline?

Why Being Yourself Will Land You the Role

You may be spending too much time trying to decipher what “they” want and not enough time crafting the best way that this role can be illuminated through your one-of-a-kind spirit!

Why You Must Become An Adventurous Actor

The urge to be an adventurer exists within every actor. This urge fights for your approval against the obedient actor you think you are compelled to be.

Be Prepared, Flexible, and Available in Your Auditions

Being flexible in the room provides the present moment freshness that adds job getting color and texture to those choices. Both are equally essential to your success.

Why You Need To Like What You Do As An Actor

How you live your life is a choice. When you look for a job, make sure the work is something you enjoy. You don't have to love every aspect of a job, but certainly you can find some things to like about practically anything.

3 Reasons Actors Get Commercial Callbacks

Based on all my experience as an actor, casting director, and teacher, I do believe there is a casting formula for getting callbacks. It is only my educated opinion but I really believe that this is basically the formula and value percentages.