How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Book the Job

11:30 A.M.–12:30 P.M. – 4th Floor, Class A
Get Cast More Often! Tom Todoroff, director, producer, and acting coach to Liam Neeson, Samuel L. Jackson, Brendan Gleeson, Marcia Cross, and Claire Danes, among others, will work with selected actors from the audience, showing you how to improve your work immediately and the skills you need to manifest these changes on your own.

Be prepared with a one-minute monologue or audition sides—and know the title and author of your piece. Get out of your own way and get work today.

SPEAKER BIO

Tom Todoroff, Actor, Teacher, Producer, and Director, Tom Todoroff Studio
Tom Todoroff trained with Edith Skinner, Cicely Berry, Kristin Linklater, Michael Shurtleff, and Stella Adler. Tom went on to play over 50 classical and contemporary roles at theaters around the world, including the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts; the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland; Ubu Repertory, Theater for the New City, and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in New York; the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, N.Y.; and at Yale.

Television appearances include the miniseries "A Woman Named Jackie" (also co-writer; Emmy for best miniseries) and "North and South, Book III" (also co-writer; starring Peter O'Toole). Episodic work includes "All My Children," "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," "Touched by an Angel," "Arli$$," and "Star Trek: Voyager" (with Joel Grey). Film credits include "Turbulence," "Ethan Frome," "Leap of Faith," "Tin Cup," "Play It to the Bone," "Dark Blue," "El Padrino," "Easy" (Toronto and Sundance film festivals), and "Hollywood Homicide" (with Harrison Ford).

Tom was one of the producers of and actors in "Cobb" (with Tommy Lee Jones) at Buffalo, N.Y.'s Shea's Performing Arts Center. He produced and directed "Working Shakespeare: RSC Meets USA," a broadcast series featuring Jeremy Irons, Emily Watson, Lindsay Duncan, Toby Stephens, and other members of the Royal Shakespeare Company along with U.S. actors Helen Hunt, Samuel L. Jackson, Claire Danes, Blythe Danner, Robert Sean Leonard, Cherry Jones, Victor Garber, Diane Venora, and others.

Tom has also been directing and coaching actors for over 30 years and is the founder and artistic director of the Malibu Actors Studio, a professional training program for young actors. He continues to teach actors and directors at his studios in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, London, Dubai, and Riyadh.