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7 Essential Acting Rituals

Rituals play a vital part in the evolution of life and as an actor. Here are seven practices to help you stop getting stuck in your story and step into your light.

Stop Telling Yourself Lies About Your Career!

If only we could stop telling stories that contradicted our hearts, who would we be? Amazing Adventurers. Dynamic Doers. Beautiful Bad-Asses. Courageous Creators. But it’s hard because we’re invested in our stories.

Why Your Emotional History Is Important as an Actor

An area in an actor’s work that is often neglected is emotional history. With history comes emotion, and it shows up in what the character says and does.

3 Steps To Pitching Yourself to Agents

Eventually, you will need your dream team in place if you want your career to really soar. Spring is typically is the best time to seek representation. So, let me share three ways you can begin your pursuit without wasting time and money.

7 Elements Of A Great Monologue

Here are Brian O'Neil's observations for a successful monologue performance.

6 Steps To Giving a Memorable Performance

Josephy Pearlman shares elements that are always present in every piece of “great” acting.

How To Translate Lyrics and Connect to a Song

When we don't translate our lyrics, we are singing or speaking in a different "tongue" – not ours but rather that of our lyricist or playwright.

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.

How To Get to the Root of the Problem in Your Auditions

I was talking to a psychologist friend of mine and asked him what the biggest reason is for people to seek therapy. He said it was people not wanting to make the same mistakes over and over in their lives.

Take Action and Don’t Worry About the Outcome

“Take action” should be a guiding rule in all of our lives. We all have good ideas now and then, and we all have second-guessed them when it comes time for us to actually do something about them.