Backstage Experts

10 Basic Steps to Commercial Production that Every Actor Should Know!

When you are hired for a commercial, you should know the process that got you there. Here are 10 basic steps to commercial production.

3 Ways Hosting Is Different From Acting

As actors we have to recognize what the hosting jobs require of us is both similar to and different from acting.

4 Tips For Finding the Right Headshot Photographer

Your headshot is one of the most important tools in your kit. This is what gives someone an initial impression about who you are and gets you the attention you are looking for.

Be the New Triple Threat: Actor-Writer-Producer

Due to the Internet, showbiz has changed radically in the last three to five years. Self submissions? Paper headshots and resumes? Making rounds? That’s over. Change is good, but requires a different approach. You need to revise your marketing perspective. It’s a new world.

Form Healthy Habits For Better Audition Results

As an actor, your health has an especially relevant impact on everything from your looks to your audition anxiety. You only get one body in this lifetime, and yet many people are more aware of their car breaking down than they are about themselves.

3 Steps To Getting Out Of Your Own Way

It takes strength and determination, and insight into our own behavior, to actually change what is holding us back. Here is a helpful series of steps to guide you.

How To Gain Acting Success Like Edie Falco

The pace to a self-sustaining acting career varies. More often than not, the journey for actors being able to “do what they love” and nothing else without financial worry is a curving pot-holed course of great distance traveled until smooth straightway is rode.

The Difference Between Offensive Vs. Defensive Acting

The actor who prepares offensively has a way of working that gives the confidence to let go of the work in the room. He trusts his technique and doesn't feel the need to police himself.

How To Overcome Your Fear

Whether you are preparing an audition, or on your way to an interview with an agent and you suddenly have an attack of fear or doubt, how do you get over it? What do you do?

How To Use Audience Reactions In Your Performance

How can you keep your focus and concentration when you can hear a live uncensored narration of every move you make? As an actor, you know you are judged in every moment of your performance, but how do you deal with hearing the judgment while you are still performing?