Cold Reading Technique

2:00-3:30 pm -- 9th Floor, Room #C967
The True Secret to Getting Cast! Without Excellent Cold-Reading Skills, you'll flop at auditions. Don't fear: This focus session will prepare you to impress Casting Directors.

Fear. Intimidation. Hesitation. Nerves. All things that get in the way of our auditioning process. Acting teacher Anthony Miendl and workshop participants will explore new ideas about the audition process and cold reading.

We will find new ways to infuse your work with creativity and help you leave the audition room feeling empowered and satisfied. It's time to stop worrying about the audition and leave it in the room.

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-- Anthony Miendl, Acting Teacher

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Anthony Meindl
Anthony Meindl started his studio, Anthony Meindl's Acting Workshop, in Los Angeles 12 years ago after meeting many actors who had lost their desire, joy, and passion for acting and the business. Traditional "methods" seemed to put actors in their heads, make them doubt their choices, and make them rethink what is supposed to be natural and fun. He created a technique for the new demands placed on today's working actor.

His teachings and studio are all based on tapping into our innate potential as artists and rethinking what we've been taught to believe about creativity, acting, and making it in the business and what's possible for all of us as creators. In 2011 Meindl won the Back Stage L.A. Readers' Choice Award for favorite scene study and cold reading teacher.

Meindl is an award-winning writer, producer, director, and actor whose first feature screenplay, "The Wonder Girls," was the grand prize–winning feature screenplay in the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival Screenplay Competition.

Meindl's filmmaking credits include recently producing and directing a number of short films, including the award-winning "Ready? OK!," which was sold to MTV's Logo channel as part of its "Click List: Best in Short Film" series and is on DVD as part of "FirstOUT 3."

Last year Meindl wrote, directed, and produced a TV pilot with actors at his acting studio. It was nominated for best pilot at the 2010 Banff World Television Festival. The idea has since been expanded into a feature film, "Birds of a Feather," with Olympia Dukakis, Bruce Vilanch, Trevor Donovan, and Lindsay Hollister, and which is in post-production.

In just one season of producing and directing plays (2003–04), Meindl's first three productions, "Swimming in the Shallows," "Dogs Barking," and "The Dead-Eye Boy," earned critical praise, including LA Weekly Theater Award nominations for direction, ensemble, comedy direction, and comedy ensemble. Meindl closed the theater company in 2005 to focus on his TV and film projects.

Meindl recently finished his first book, "At Left Brain, Turn Right." It is an exploration of the creative process and his revolutionary approach to teaching actors.