Backstage Experts

You Never Know Where An Audition Will Lead

If your agent or manager gives you an audition, go on it! It doesn’t matter if you think you are too tall or too blonde or too fat or too good to do one line. You never know where any opportunity will take you.

10 Ways for Actors to Survive the Holidays

Make the most of the holiday season and new year. If you stay in touch with your inner life, celebrate in moderation, are accepting of others, and connect with generosity, you'll survive anything that the holidays can throw at you.

Use Your Fear To Fuel You

So, how do you engage your fear? The typical response is to try not to feel afraid. This usually makes it worse because of the increased conflict with your own being. The key with fear is how you "frame" it, i.e. what meaning you put on fear.

3 Ways To Create a Path to Success in the New Year

In the thirty years I’ve been in the film business, I’ve discovered some crucial steps needed for the journey to be successful. Here are three simple ways to create a clearer path to success in 2013.

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.

The Internet Is Your Audition Room

Casting director Heidi Levitt shares the ways actors can audition and get discovered online.

How To Recover From a Bad Audition

Marci Phillips, executive director of ABC Casting, shares advice for bouncing back from a negative audition experience.

4 House Rules for Auditions and Bookings

It’s been my experience that the people who live easily by these tenants work often and seem to be the ones bringing the most to the creative table.

5 Ways To Work on Your Craft During Hurricane Sandy

Stuck inside due to Hurricane Sandy? Don't let the opportunity pass you by. Here are five ways you can hone your craft from the comfort of your home.

How Acting Affects Your Self-Esteem

It is a socially accepted way to fulfill the need for attention and approval, and I think most would agree that the sound of applause is thrilling, empowering, and sometimes addicting.