by Kyle Downing | May 10, 2022 | The Actors Blog
NYC is the place to be if you’re pursuing a career in acting. Any day could be that glorious day you land your dream role! But on regular non-glorious days, you’ve still got to eat and make rent. How can you chase your acting goals and have a less dramatic, stable...
by Kyle Downing | May 3, 2022 | The Actors Blog
Let’s say that you and your Tik Tok-happy friend are neck in neck for the same recurring role on a major network. Let’s say you’re even a slightly better actor than them. But your friend’s singing video went viral last week, earning them 50,000 new followers that...
by Kyle Downing | Apr 25, 2022 | The Actors Blog
Think back to that time in high school when a “real life actor” came to speak to your drama class, bearing that prestigious asterisk by their name followed by three glorious letters: AEA. You thought to yourself, “Someday, that’ll be me.” But now that the opportunity...
by Kyle Downing | Apr 18, 2022 | The Actors Blog
No struggling actor wants to get lost in the shuffle. Though “type” can feel like a dirty word, without one, you risk wasting precious time going out for roles that are totally wrong for you. While the thought of fitting yourself into a box with an out-of-touch label...
by Roderick Lawrence | Apr 11, 2022 | The Actors Blog
Clichés in the arts get started for all kinds of reasons. Some start out as good suggestions that get taken too far and some develop as awful gatekeeping strategies. Either way, believing in these clichés is not the way to support your artistic career. That’s not to...
by Roderick Lawrence | Apr 4, 2022 | The Actors Blog
So many actors falsely believe they need to get an agent as the first step on their acting journey. Somehow they’ve come to believe the ideal path looks like: graduate college, get an agent, book a starring role. And this can be paralyzing. Now, there’s nothing wrong...
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