How To Budget As An Aspiring Actor
Part of the allure of acting is the uncertainty, challenge, and endless opportunity. However, those things also make acting a difficult career to weather, especially at the beginning. Actors toil…
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October 13, 2015 | How To's
October 5, 2015 | How To's
How To Prepare For A General Audition
Once a year, most cities host a cattle call audition session that lasts for days and includes dozens of theater companies and hundreds of actors. In Seattle there’s the TPS…
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September 29, 2015 | How To's
How To Find Your Type As An Actor
Let’s talk about type. It’s not who you are, or what you do, or what you know that counts. Type, for an actor, is simply about what other people think…
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September 11, 2015 | How To's
How To Find Your Next Acting Audition
You have a resume. You have a headshot, or something close. You have ruthlessly prepared a monologue, or maybe two, just to be safe. You know what type of character…
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August 27, 2015 | How To's
How to Make An Actor Demo Reel
In the long line of confounding acting advice, casting directors demand that actors have a demo reel if they are to take you seriously. However, in the same breath they…
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August 27, 2015 | How To's
How to Audition For a Commercial
Konstantin Stanislavsky once said, “There are no small roles, only small actors.” He was a theatre man and lived before the age of the television commercial. Were he alive now,…
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July 28, 2015 | How To's
How To Ace Your Headshot Session
Imagine for a moment that you are a detective selecting a suspect from a series of mug shots. You would use the description you have to try to match…
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November 19, 2014 | How To's
How to Find a Kick-Ass Acting Agent
No matter whether you’re an amateur trying to break into the industry, newly graduated or still working towards your BFA in acting, you’ll need an agent. A good one. Trying…
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November 13, 2014 | How To's
How To Decide If A BFA Acting Degree Is Right For You
Did you know that the BFA degree has only existed as we know it today since 1971? As the traditional degree choice for students wishing to receive education in the…
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