That One Audition with Alyshia Ochse

Casting Director turned Agent turned acting coach, Dana Bowling shares her wisdom with actors after years of being in various degrees of supporting the actor in the storytelling business. 

Today we chat with Paul Adelstein , from Private Practice, Prison Break, Scandal, and Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce, as he lays out his 30 year career for us, sharing some of the most inspirational, motivational, and insightful stories, and how he's managed to turn countless challenges into opportunities to win.  Beginning in Chicago, he began his career as a member of John Cusack's commedia-style...

Set etiquette on being the best partner and what to expect from your scene partner. Time is money. Do your work so you can show up and be on the playground with your peer.

Today we're chatting with actress, Amanda Warren , whose incredible artistry is matched by her wisdom, insight, and extraordinarily grounded and compassionate energy. She has established herself with a resume that is not only lengthy, but loaded with some of TV and Film's most respected projects in recent years. From her work with Martin McDonagh and Darren Aronofsky to Denzel Washington, Francis...

Do nerves get the best of you? Here are a few tips that I use and have borrowed from the many guests that have come by That One Audition. Have 10 minutes before your audition, listen here and get out of your negative side of the brain and into the flowing side of your artistry.

Today we chat with Adam Shapiro about what it is to be enough, being re-cast in the feature adaptation of a passion project, to the insightful advice Director Jason Winer gave just before testing for a pilot, to starting your own theatre company. From his work on The Affair, Sense8, Grace & Frankie, The Mindy Project, and Snowfall, to his roles in Now You See Me, The House Bunny, and Steve Jobs, a...

Biggest F word in a world of creativity can actually be your biggest lesson. FIRED. FAILURE. To avoid embarrassment of the ego, one must review what the blockages that landed me here and how can I learn from this detour in life. You are not alone.

  Todays guest has over 100 film and TV credits to her name and a career that began with roles in repertory theatre in Portland, Oregon, and ultimately lead her to Los Angeles where she discovered improv and sketch comedy and became a member of The Groundlings. She shares how her experiences doing improv in LA prepared her for the rest of the business, including joining the cast of SNL for one sea...

Finding your voice and how you will be representing your artistry through the instrument that YOU are. Branding yourself means to develop a unique professional identity and coherent message that sets you apart from others either in your industry. What is your unique value? How do others see you?

  Today we're chatting with TWO extraordinary women who took the advice we've all heard, "Create your own content," to the extreme and landed themselves with Series Regular, Writing, and Producing roles on their own comedy show on TV Land. These ladies began performing together in sketch groups in Chicago, where they created their own short-form webseries that ultimately lead them to Los Angeles,...

Dissecting the EGO and how it challenges creativity. How to create and step outside the EGO (the end result) that inhibits real creativity from flourishing.

  For today's conversation, we're changing things up and taking a look at things on the other side of the camera. We're chatting with someone who's made their career writing and directing major hollywood movies for the past twenty years. He's come a long way from his father's liquor store in Massachusetts, and he tells us exactly how, after graduating from school and writing a letter to his hollyw...

There are no small parts, so remember to make it your world. This is a full breakdown of Co-star responsibility in the story. How to handle your one line or a few lines on set.

  Todays conversation is an open, candid, and humorous dialogue with Chris Geere who's on-screen career began with a Coke Zero commercial in the UK, and ultimately lead him to a series regular role. He talks about getting cut from the final edit of Band of Brothers, how a clever self-tape landed him with an offer to work with M. Night Shyamalan, and honestly shares how even after booking the ever-...

We are all ageless in artistry if we allow ourselves to be. Today I am assessing the experience around T.I.M.E in a creative career. 

Today we have a really special conversation with an actress who has defied what we're often told is possible in a Hollywood career. She started on stage with the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, but didn't make it to Los Angeles till she was nearly 40. She is an example of what can happen when an artist decides to be the exception, embrace fear, and relinquish over-thinking.   We also get to chat a...

Today's guest is a powerhouse force of knowledge, inspiration, and passion. From her big break on Law & Order, to her work with David O. Russell, she is full of incredible stories that detail her determination and unwillingness to give up. Her approach to her career has been uniquely strategic---she's made her personal growth just as important as her artistic growth, and through that she's cultiva...

Today's guest is a vibrant force of passion and hard work and, for those of you interested in how the world of Broadway works and how it differs from TV and Film, she is a genuine triple threat---From eight shows a week in New York to recurring roles on TV, she's spent 20 years in this business, putting in the work and thoroughly enjoying every step of the journey.  Jackie Seiden is an actor/singe...

Neal Bledsoe is an actor, writer and journalist. Admittedly he is now more confident in the tools of his expression but admits he still doesn't know what he is doing.  Falling in love with the work and the his characters after a stint in rehab, Neal shares the utility of the business.  From voice to walk, he has manifested some of the best characters on MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, UGLY BETTY, SHAMELES...

Neal Bledsoe is an actor, writer and journalist. Admittedly he is now more confident in the tools of his expression but admits he still doesn't know what he is doing.  Falling in love with the work and the his characters after a stint in rehab, Neal shares the utility of the business.  From voice to walk, he has manifested some of the best characters on MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, UGLY BETTY, SHAMELES...

Alanna Ubach has cultivated a career marked by the kind of range that many actors dream of. A bonified character actress,with equal parts grit and grace, she is unequivocally honest about her experience in Hollywood, generously sharing what she's learned along the way.  Hardly recognizable from one character to the next, Alanna Ubach has starred in nearly 150 theater, film, and TV projects. Born i...

New Year!  New You!  Over this intensity of the New Years resolutions?  Well, this episode is all about giving you the tools to actually understand your values and how to effectively manifest them at any point in your life.  Each of these women used their transformative journeys to invest in a product to help others do the same!    Alyshia Ochse : Author of Life Letters Brianna Brown Keen : Manife...

What We Are co-founder, actress, musician and producer Nikki Deloach shares the brave, beautiful tenacious, unforgettable career moments that shaped her 30 year career. This woman is a purposeful, driven and talented storyteller but more importantly she is one who prioritizes vulnerability and openness. She shares the highs and lows of being a veteran of both the music and film industry from the s...

Our episode today is a must listen for actors who want to learn how to orchestrate a career. This is an conversation about empowering yourself as an artist, about staying power, about the necessity to invest in yourself, and the importance of having a vision of where you want to go in your career and how to align everything in your life around that vision. Our guest today has fully arrived as an a...

  In our second conversation with Elliot Knight we take a deeper look into everything, from his relationship to auditioning, to how he makes the distinction of being in love with the performance, the storytelling, and the craft rather than the industry and what that difference means for him. He talks about wanting to be the kind of performer who reveals rather than masks. This is a conversation fo...