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Casting Director G. Charles Wright

These one-hour sessions allow individual casting directors to share their personal approaches to their work and offer advice on getting called in and called back.

Casting Director Fern Champion

These one-hour sessions allow individual casting directors to share their personal approaches to their work and offer advice on getting called in and called back.

Casting Director Mark Teschner

These one-hour sessions allow individual casting directors to share their personal approaches to their work and offer advice on getting called in and called back.

Playing Yourself

Find out what it takes to be a host of a TV series and if being a contestant on a reality show can help or hurt your acting career.

On-Camera Technique

Understanding the nuances and realities of working on camera is critical to today's actor, no matter if they have an BFA or MFA or how much experience they have on stage. Speaker: actor Brad Greenquist.

Fine-tuning Your Audition Technique

Casting director Matthew Barry selects volunteers from the audience to perform a short monologue (under two minutes). After feedback from the CD, the actor makes the necessary adjustments and performs it again. Participants should come prepared to recite a monologue and will be chosen at random.

Succeeding in Voiceover

Do people tell you that you have a great voice? Have you thought about breaking into voiceover? Think voiceover work is easy? Find out what's really needed to succeed in this competitive niche market. Speaker: voiceover actor Pat Fraley.

Script Analysis

Script analysis is a key element to understanding the nuances of a character. Joanne Baron and D.W. Brown highlight the most important tool professional actors need to up their game at auditions, callbacks, and once they arrive on set. Speakers include acting teachers Joanne Baron and D.W. Brown.

The Art of Networking

Career strategist (and former wallflower) Kristine Oller will take you behind-the-scenes to look at the subtle ways creative people commonly sabotage their networking efforts.

Live the Life: Stop Acting!

Respected acting coach, audition specialist, and author Margie Haber takes her "Haber Philosophy" and teaches participants how to live the character in your body, instead of your head.