Backstage Experts

How To Become More Charismatic

Can charisma be learned? It is certainly up for debate, and I don’t profess to know the answer. However, I do know that one of the most bewitching traits of charismatic people is their ability to make whoever they are talking to feel special and important.

How Changing Your Outlook Can Change Your Acting Career

Start by taking a look at the “job-givers” you've worked with in the past. Make a list. Include the playwright, the commercial director, the film producer, etc. Now, ask one of those people to coffee.

How Training for the Olympics Is Like Training To Be An Actor

I’d like to talk about discipline, specifically the discipline of the Olympic athlete and how it compares to the acting profession.

3 Strategies For Framing a Meeting

A frame is the way your brain mentally packages your power, authority, strength, information, and social status. In any meeting for any reason between two or more people, one person grabs the power.

6 Steps For Auditioning Your Baby

Talent Manager Jackie Reid of L'il Angels Unlimited shares how to prepare your baby for auditions.

How To Handle Jealousy and Negativity

So, how do you handle the snide, vicious, negative comments that strangers say about you? What do you do?

4 Ways To Give Thanks All Year Long

So why not step out of the status quo by expressing your gratitude all year long instead? That way, your thank-you will carry a deeper meaning while standing out from the holiday crowd.

Where Do You Find Your Acting Community?

Television and the Internet are the new “theater.” It is not that casting directors don’t go to the theater anymore; it is just that the venues to discover talent have broadened exponentially. Veteran actors need to adjust their way of thinking and connecting.

Stop Fighting Your Success

I can't count how many actors I've coached, at every career level, who come in telling me they’re doing all the right things, yet their vision of the future has been just that—a vision of the future. It hasn’t had the chance to become a ...

5 Rules For Recovering From Losing a Role

In thinking about my experience of loss and recovery, I wanted to relate it to an actor’s experience in losing a role. Below are five rules of recovery.