Backstage Experts

How To Maintain Perspective in Your Acting Career

When we don’t keep things in perspective and only on what isn’t working, we become defeated by rejections and challenges and lose perspective. Contextually, we’ve probably made great progress in order to get to where we now stand.

Why 60 Minutes Can Make a Difference

Maybe try letting the first hour of your day be about embracing yourself. Creativity often strikes in the early morning.

Create a SWOT Report for Your Acting Career

Although this may not guarantee hoped for results, it certainly increases the odds that specific planned action will bring a higher measure of success.

15 Ways to Be Happy in 2013

In the tradition of New Year’s resolutions, here are a few things that might just make it a little easier, even a little more fun, as you create your practice.

What To Leave Behind In On-Camera Auditions

This is why a greater awareness of "what you leave behind" is so crucially important. If you have little or no on-camera experience, you probably have no idea if what you do in the room works on tape.

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.

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.

The Secret About Demo Reels That Nobody Told You

The secret about demo reels. The SECRET. It just evokes an air of mystery, doesn’t it? But a secret is just a piece of information that YOU don’t know yet. So I’m gonna just spill it. And then you’ll know it and that will be that.

5 New Year's Intentions for Actors

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore. They never worked for me and I think the reason was that they always seemed a bit selfish, like I was asking the world for favors.

The Secret to Guaranteed Success

A most cherished holiday tradition has formed among my friends—my inner circle, my Mastermind group—in which we come together to talk about the year that has past and the year yet to come.