Questions & Actors

By: Karen Ann Pavlick This is the magic formula! “H A P P I N E S S is the JOY we feel striving to our potential” I absolutely love this quote I heard on Super Soul Sunday with Oprah and Shawn Achor, knowing after many years of not knowing, that this is...

Inside The Industry Seminar

Synopsis by Tracy Weisert We had another informative Inside the Industry Seminar, free for Casting Networks members when veteran Casting Director, John McCarthy was our guest speaker April 26th.  Since John had been a professional actor on Broadway before he turned to...

The Conscious Actor

by Bonnie Katz, MA  Sail Through Rejection With 5 Questions All actors experience rejection in their careers, even famous ones like, Marilyn Monroe.  In 1944, some putz at the Blue Book Modeling Agency said to Miss Monroe, “You had better learn secretarial work or...

Health Tip

Mobility Series – Part 3 Okay, so by now you have been: 1) Finding 10 minutes of time daily to devote to mobility 2) Adding new stretches into your routine + adding a new approach to your pre-exercise warm-ups. Now we’re going to go over, in my opinion, one of...

Tough Love for Actors

by Paul Russell Director Demands Actors Pay-to-Play An actor in my colleague-family wrote me of her being snared by a neophyte director pursuing questionable financial requests of the actors he casts: “I was cast in a non-union production. I’m not sure whether I...