Backstage Experts

What Are the Stakes of Your Audition?

Ah, the odds. The chances. The stakes. To most actors starting out, auditioning can seem like a daunting, terrifying, and insurmountable responsibility. A contest. A game of luck and chance.

Why Learning Acceptance Is Important as an Actor

We are a culture obsessed with self-improvement. It seems every time we turn around we are being told that there is something else about us that needs to be changed – our weight, our clothes, our attitudes, even our eyelashes!

Want to Change Your Life and Book the Job? Let's Talk Physics

We have a hard time connecting to that truth because we’re stuck on the physical form of matter. We look at ourselves and see things we don’t like. We’re too fat or too old or don’t look like Heidi Klum.

How To Make Your Inner Journey Inform the Outer

For many of us, we’ve never been taught to identify with an inner journey. So we seek continuously outwardly. Partly this is due to our living in a culture that only measures results by the things we achieve and the amount of money we make.

How To Assemble the Best Team For Your Career (Part 1)

I never met an athlete who wanted to be on a losing team. They know that being good at what you do may get you in the game, but it won’t win you a championship trophy. The same is true for actors. Your team matters.

3 Improv Tips for Non-Improvisers

I often get the chance to use improv in on-camera auditions, and it seems just as often, I’m auditioning with people who have never taken a single improv class. So here are three quick tips for you non-improv actors.

What 8 Year-old Girls Can Teach Us About Acting

We can be so focused on getting the industry to pay attention to us and validate us that we ignore our own voice.

3 Ways To Create the Best Agent Relationship

Why is this so hard for us? Why are we so scared to ask for what we deserve? Especially when it comes to agents and managers?

Best Of Backstage Experts: Child Actors and Agents

Our Backstage Experts have advice for the best ways for parents to work with their child's agent so that everyone is happy!

8 Tips For Raising a Child Actor

I believe they have their child’s best interests at heart, but with lack of education in the business, a parent can derail their child before they even get started.