How To Pinpoint Your ‘Type’

For the most part your age range, look and body will determine your type. Your personality, energy, and essence will also factor in. CDs, directors, and producers will remember you as a certain type based on their first impression. Here’s an exercise to figure out...

Transform Your Ad Audition

Transform Surrounds & Blocking “When I get an ad script, I really don’t know how to prepare … It’s all just luck anyway … There is nothing to do here, I guess I’ll work it out in the audition.”  An actor will spend years developing preparation methods for TV and...

The Conscious Actor

by Bonnie Katz, MA Going Through Transitions with Strength and Ease Can you let go of the familiar, tolerate feelings of uncertainty, and take the necessary steps to move towards something new?  As actors, you are thrown into situations that are continually changing...

The Conscious Actor

by Bonnie Katz, MA ENJOY THE KISS, BUT HAVE A PLAN Crack open an actor when they’re wrapped up in a conversation about acting and you’ll find a great big smile.  Oh, they may not be so in love with their profession when competing for a role, trying to meet the rent,...

Moving to Los Angeles to Act

by Ryan Kolbe Follow @ryankolbe My intent with this article is to inform people who are thinking about transitioning from a “stable, 9 to 5 job” to an acting career in Los Angeles of the expectations they should set for themselves in going through the process. I have...