Backstage Experts

5 Steps To Creating Your Professional Acting Network

If you create a network you exponentially multiply your work opportunities. The more people who know you, like you, and want to work with you the more work you’ll get. Then the process of submitting, auditioning, and trying to get work is reduced to zero.

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.

A 2013 Career Checklist for Child Actors and Parents

As the calendar turns toward another year, it is a good time to refocus and reevaluate priorities within the entertainment business. We all have things we want to work on in 2013, and the following are some ideas that kids and parents can add to their list of resolutions.

The 5 Acts of Your Audition

Every actor has a story to tell, and when you walk into the audition room, you need to be prepared to tell it.

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 ...

How To Find Inspiration

The reason we often don’t experience greater moments of inspiration and creativity in our own work is that we quit at the “frustration” phase, not knowing that this stage is an important part of our creative development.

4 Tips for Memorizing Lines for Young Performers

Reading and acting are completely different. Someone may be a great reader but a so-so actor or vice versa. If reading is getting in the way of acting, then memorizing lines may be what your child needs to do in order to have a successful audition.