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Lessons From Your “Survival Job”
One of the great things about being an actor is that everything that happens in your life can help to serve your craft. It’s my belief that virtually anything that is executed with intelligence,...
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Set Realistic Expectations For Booking Commercials
By Dallas Travers When you first sign with a new commercial agent, it’s easy to fall into the trap of feeling anxious about your booking ratio. Fears around having to “book right away or get dropped”...
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Common Missteps for On Camera Auditions by Marci Phillips
Although I firmly believe that a solid actor can transcend all mediums, there are usually specific expectations for an on-camera audition that a number of you can use some reminders on. Memorization is...
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7 Rules for Following Up With Casting Directors by Brette Goldstein
You’ve auditioned for a casting director. You received a good response. Now what? Here are some do’s and don’ts on following up: 1. Send a thank you note. If it’s an email or a card, a short and sweet...
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Why Being Yourself Will Land You the Role By Marci Phillips
Everyone on the planet has a very distinct personality. An actor may be defined as someone who observes and portrays a character’s psyche, but everything is ultimately filtered through one’s own prism....
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Let’s Shut Up and Talk Demo Reels
Speak Easy caught up with Julian Rebolledo, Sean Kenin, and Ed Lewis, the team behind Shut Up and Talk. Voice actors Rebolledo and Kenin launched Shut Up and Talk in 2001 and for the next seven to...
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WHY CHOOSING MONOLOGUES FROM PLAYS IS USUALLY BEST by Brian O’Neil
1.) They were written to be performed live. Unlike monologues from film and television, plays are written for one reason, and one reason only. To be performed by a living, breathing human being in...
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Eight Tips for Powerful Professional Relationships By Dallas Travers
We’ve all heard the old line in this business, “It’s all about who you know.” I believe that it’s less about who you know and more about how well you know them. One key to success is powerful...
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One Big Surprise About TV Call-Backs and “Reading for Producers” by Brian O’Neil
Here’s something few actors– and their representatives–know about episodic television. I was talking recently to a writer/producer friend of mine who has held that position for years on a major hit...
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Inside the Industry: How to get an Agent with Michael Imbimbo – Talent Agent...
How to Get and Agent? This elusive question comes up a lot when I give seminars. When I was a performer, I always viewed agents with this mysterious they-will-solve-all-my-problems view and thought it...
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HOW TO KEEP A “STORY” MONOLOGUE FROM SEEMING LIKE A “FLASHBACK” by Brian O’Neil
Actors are told, wisely so for the most part, to avoid monologues that tell a story. You most likely know the kind. They usually start with “When I was seventeen” or “It happened after I left home”...
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The Best Way to prepare for your portrait or headshot session by Daisy Rey,...
Models and actors need to have professional headshots to help them find work. The headshot is often their resume. Many people also enjoy having professional portraits of individuals or families that...
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5 Ways to Not Get Accepted by a Top MFA Program by Brian O’Neil
It’s January and most of the graduate acting (MFA) programs will be holding auditions for a few thousand hopefuls who wish to enter. Having been a guest teacher at virtually every top program, and...
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ACCEPTED! ONE MFA ACTOR’S SUCCESS STRATEGY by Brian O’Neil
My job as a career coach is to teach actors how to think differently about this business and how they approach it. The events and conversation below took place over a period of more than a year. It...
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Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver: How the “Star Wars” Stars Are Helping to Alter...
by Brian O’Neil “Where are the Pacinos? Where are the Hoffmans and the DeNiros? Where are the up and comers like the guys who made the edgy, grimy films of the 70s so great?” So went the lament during...
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LAUGHING ON SET by Martin Bentsen, NY Photographer and Filmmaker
Having a good laugh when you’re on set can be fun, but every once in a while it’s not appropriate. It’s important to know when you shouldn’t burst out laughing not only because people could get...
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Five Basic Things You NEED to do in your acting career by Martin Bentsen, NY...
No matter where you are in your acting career, you need to do these five, basic things if you haven’t done them already. Even if you’re just starting out, the sooner you get these five things done, the...
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“Curiosity Killed the Cat” Why I started Entertainment(x)
by Clayton Howe. Ever hear that saying, “Curiosity killed the cat?” It means if you stick your nose in the business of others you may wind up dead. But how then do you learn faster and realize quicker...
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Teachers Hear Students’ Concerns at 2018 Congress of Nat’l Alliance of Acting...
by Brian O’Neil On Monday morning, June 18, a panel of exceptionally well-trained students and actors assembled to voice their concerns to teachers as part of the New York segment of an annual meeting...
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Why CAN the English? Why CAN’T the Americans? Or CAN We? A Discourse on Dialects
by Brian O’Neil Much has been said and written over the past several years regarding the ability of English actors to speak with an American accent in contrast to the lesser likelihood of Americans...
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