Entries by Tony Nation

The Key to Booking You Might Be Overlooking

Starting this week, we’ll be featuring weekly articles containing tips from Dallas Travers, who teaches actors the career and life skills often left out of traditional training programs. This week Dallas takes a look at one of the professionals in the entertainment industry who might help you get booked. Click here to download her article, The […]

What’s going on with the soaps?

Daytime soap operas are getting cancelled left and right but some, including One Life to Live, still are alive. What better way to find out more on Saturday, June 17, when One Life to Live‘s associate casting director Tori Visgilio offers a Daytime Intensive Workshop? You’ll get her perspective on casting (she’s currently casting 5 […]

Have a smashing Memorial Day weekend!

Summer’s official here and the 2011-2012 t.v. season is just around the corner (and, just in case you are wondering, there are only 212 shopping days left ’til Christmas)! Before you take a long weekend break, watch the promo for the new NBC series Smash, which will be premiering sometime next season on t.v. In […]

Thanks, Mom!

This is the trailer from one of the most talked about performances from the ’80s by a living actress. The performance won a Razzie Award, was snubbed by the Oscars and wasn’t well-received by the critics. The actress asserted that this role killed her acting career. Always pay attention to your choices. Let’s take a […]

RIP: Sada Thompson & Arthur Laurents

This week, Sada Thompson and Arthur Laurents died. Click here to read the New York Times obituary for Laurents, writer of Gypsy, West Side Story and The Way We Were. Click here to read remembrances by Patti Lupone, Harvey Fierstein and Jack Viertel, artistic director of City Center Encores! on Playbill.com. He was 93. Tony […]

Insider Acting Tip #12

By Tony Nation Online Postcard Marketing To perform in NYC, it’s important to know how to keep yourself top-of-mind for key players. To postcard or not to postcard, that is the question! Many actors that I meet don’t use postcards when marketing themselves to agents and New York casting directors.  But with so many actors […]