Acting Business Boot Camp

How does a casting director get hired? By reputation. Selling themselves and working with them and getting rehired. How does the process work? Ad agency hires the director They will send scripts, usage, when it's shooting, the boards, and conflicts, character breakdowns.   CD sends them out to agents-- to their favorite agents (about 10). Agents send a list with pictures and CDs send back a list o...

Sign up for the Free Webinar, The Three Pillars to a Successful Acting Career, also known as,  How to Become a Working Actor Without Breaking Your Bank and Wasting Your Time,  HERE What is Life Coaching? One on One Support System Accountability NOT Therapy Help you move your life closer to the version you want to be Goal Setting What are your ultimate goals? Then we start to work on the action ste...

We are each the product of our own belief system Carl Jung, "Man is so imprisoned in his type of thinking that he is simply incapable of fully understanding another standpoint." Warranty, "if you don't like the one you have, you can return it for one that is more preferable." You can change the beliefs that created your reality. Limiting Belief: Something you accept about life, about yourself, abo...

Intimacy Coordinators: Act as an advocate and a liaison between actors and other parties, directors producers. Help co create choreography within the boundaries of all parties involved in a scene Is safe and repeatable. Actors are trained to say yes, and consent is not engrained. Our job is to be a cocreator, a colleague and peer. Clarification is not accusation. The mitigation of power dynamics....

"Teaching is just rehearsal, it is desensitizing the instrument, actor, the artist, to get them to come out to play." If you want to be in the major leagues, you gotta training with people who are on the level of the major leagues. The importance of having a life. Never stop training Remain humble about where you are as an artist so you are constantly striving. You can't say that you're done learn...

I AM FEAR by Lou Tice I am Fear. I am the menace that lurks in the paths of   Life, never visible to the eye but sharply felt in the heart.   I am the father of despair, the brother of procrastination, The enemy of progress, the tool of tyranny.   Born of ignorance and nursed in misguided thought, I have darkened more hopes, stifled more ambitions,   Shattered more ideals and prevented more   Acco...

About Robert: Robert is currently starring as Weselton in Disney's FROZEN. Other Broadway credits include: THE LION KING (Timon), THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (Durdles), ANYTHING GOES (Purser/Moonface), CHICAGO (Amos), THE LITTLE MERMAID (Chef Louis), CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, and JACKIE MASON'S LAUGHING ROOM ONLY.  He was co-author and star of the hit Off-Broadway musical CAGNEY which ran at the Wes...

The Three Pillars The Core Work The Quality of your acting Training The Language of the Agents and the Casting Directors Your Audition/ Meeting Notebook Get a little notebook! Date What was the Audition/Meeting for? What was the Type of Audition? (OC, Industrial, Print) Who was the Casting Office? Specific Casting Director? What Material did you do? (Script, take a picture) What did you wear? Hair...

About Scott: For the past twenty-five years, Studio Head, Scott Freeman, has taught at many of the nation's premiere actor training programs and is recognized as one of the leading acting teachers in the country. Mr. Freeman was a member of the founding faculty of The Actors Center in New York City, where he taught throughout the eleven years of its existence.  In addition, he enjoyed a long assoc...

"How you do one thing, is how you do all things" We want to start making the uncomfortable, comfortable. The Three As Awareness Acceptance Action Used as a tool to change so you can fulfill your life's and career's potentials. Awareness: In order to change we must become aware of what needs to be changed Acceptance: Once we are aware, we need to accept where we are at with it. Action: You can't ta...

About Amanda: Amanda Quaid has over 15 years of experience teaching speech, dialects, and language skills to actors and other speakers from around the world. In addition to her coaching on plays, films, and television, she maintains a thriving private practice in New York City. She's been featured as a dialect expert on WNYC, and her book,  American Accent Drills for British and Australian Speaker...

The Power of Affirmations Principle: Energy attracts like energy. Gandhi, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." "Be the change you wish to see in your acting career." We attract and create our world. Focus on what can be. We do this through affirmations and self-talk. Create a healthy, productive, and friendly neighborhood in your actor brain. Living an abundant life begins with believing...

  About Frank: Frank is a 30 year veteran of the music and post-production industry, which a long list of IMDB credits from TV networks, feature films, and animation companies like Disney, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. He spends his days making commercials, cartoons, TV shows and more at Digital Arts in NYC. At night, he's on a mission during Covid Times to get everyone up to speed so we can co...

Values: What Motivates you to Pursue your Goals in 2021? They make you tick or drive you Fear Based Values vs Conscious Based Values Fear Based Take action to avoid Half Truths, I have to do this, I have to do that Conscious Based Allow you to take positive actions Want or need to choose Comes out of wanting to fulfill that goal Are you choosing from your passion or choosing from your fear? Empowe...

Two Types of Goals Achievement Goals and Habit Goals Achievement Goals- One Time Accomplishment Habit Goals- Regular Ongoing Activity Requires maintaining a practice You want them to begin with action verbs Want to have a start date Frequency Time Trigger Streak Target "Right Goals" and Action Plans: AIM A-cceptable- What is the acceptable minimum? I- Ideal- What is the acceptable maximum? M- Midd...

About Heidi: Heidi Dean is the industry's top social media expert for actors. She's a social media writer for Backstage Magazine and a frequent speaker at film festivals, conferences, SAG-AFTRA foundation panels, podcasts and the creator of Marketing4actors.com. Heidi was a proud member of SAG-AFTRA & AEA and a working professional actor for over 20 years. Now she combines her years of industry ex...

"Lead the good aside and focus on the GREAT" About Bill Bill Timoney has worked in the Arts & Entertainment industry for over four decades. As an actor, his extensive resume includes Broadway and regional theatre, films, prime time & day time TV, commercials, and voice-acting (he specializes in dubbing English language versions of foreign language movies, TV shows, and animated programs). Bill's e...

The Truth is: The point of Power is in the present moment. Staying in the moment in acting, is the same way in life and humanity. 1. You can handle this when your anxiety shows up. 2. Ask the question: What do I think I can not handle in this moment? Anxiety is about not wanting to take responsibility in the moment, and not accepting the reality in the moment and feeling a lack of control. Once I...

1- Post-Covid: Movie Tickets— Research a theater near their office/ home 2- Gift Certificate— Research what do they actually like (ie: Starbucks vs. Dunkin) 3- Charity— Ask which charity they support 4- Food Bank— Possibly to one in their hometown —————— The Crucial Follow UP List Go through you contacts Type up writers/ directors/ producers/ agents/ managers/ CD's The Benefits of Postcards Holds...

About Roger: If New York City is the voice-over capital of the world, then Roger Becker is the Mayor. "Hizzoner" has been working steadily in every aspect of the business for two decades. With a background in post production, Roger left that world in the 1990's to direct talent at a prestigious NYC talent agency. Along with running their in-house studio, he worked in the Broadcast Promotions divis...

"There is no glory in thinking of yourself as less than." Core Work: "It's about who doesn't blink." The Power you can harness from your own Strength Story. "To keep our faces toward change and behave like free-spirited in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."— Helen Keller Brain Cell A, Brain Cell B Synapses. Changing the "I am not enough," to "I am enough." Something happens Something...

1 - Resume simple easy to read quality is more important that quantity list by credible credits, not by date done the importance of CREDIBILITY! 2 - Pictures embrace your age and "you-ness"- "I am what I am" don't try and be something that you are not watch TV and find yourself - be what you see on TV, but be yourself! 3 - Cover Letters and Emails Mailings DO WORK! But they MUST to be done in the...