No Comedy? No Audition

We gave you a “Top 5” lessons post from our July seminar with casting director Justin Radley of ASG Casting, as we usually do with our speakers, but an important topic came up that we felt deserved its own breakout post: Comedy Experience. Justin ran our...

The Conscious Actor

The best protection against feeling like a failure is not success. Actors must work hard at developing their own sense of integrity and self-acceptance in order to keep the monster of external validation under control. They are susceptible to equating their self-worth...

The Disquiet Room

As actors we all know too well that those moments before auditioning can be crucial to our performance, whether it is to prepare the emotional state of the character or create the focus and confidence as person. Yet we repeatedly let ourselves down in that waiting...

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON Review

Straight Outta Compton is possibly the most important movie of 2015.  In terms of the topics it covers, including police brutality and racial inequality, it certainly shines a spotlight on how far we still have to go.  On top of this, the film stands as one of the...