Jayne Atkinson & Michel Gill on “The Audition Room”
What should an actor expect in “The Audition Room?” Actors Jayne Atkinson and Michel Gill offer their New York casting advice in this video!
http://youtu.be/kEk5GThKcEc
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 Key to Booking You Might Be Overlooking. The advice in the article may surprise you!
Respected as one of the entertainment industry’s leading experts, Dallas Travers’ book, The Tao of Show Business, has won over five awards including first prizes at The Hollywood Book Festival and the London Festival along with the National Indie Excellence Award. She has helped thousands of actors to increase their auditions, produce their own projects, secure representation and book roles in film and television. Click here to learn more about Dallas.
Jayne Atkinson & Michel Gill on Headshots
How does an actor choose a headshot? Actors Jayne Atkinson and Michel Gill offer their advice in this video!
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 episodes/week!) and she also might be able to answer some questions about the world of the daytime soap opera.
Click here to learn more about her class, hit the play button below to to learn more about how One Life to Live tackled the topic of cyber bullying.
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 case you haven’t heard about it, it’s about the making of a Broadway musical. The promo features lots of casting directors and auditions.
Do you think they will get it right? But, even more important, do you think it will be entertaining?
If you’re looking for a summer performing arts program in New York, check out our classes and seminars using the tabs at the top of this page.
What are some of the “must haves” that a casting director looks for in an actor?
New York casting Director Jerry Kallarakal with DDO Agency talks about some “must haves” for actors. Watch below!
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 brief break from our regularly scheduled postings, so you can (in case you haven’t) — in the words of Paramount — “Meet the biggest MOTHER of them all!”
Happy Mother’s Day!
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 and Emmy Award winning actress Sada Thompson also died this week. Click here to read her obituary on Broadway.com.
Thompson was best known for her role in the 1970s television series Family. She was 83
Are improv skills really that important for your acting career?
Erica Palgon, at an Actors Connection New York acting seminar, talks about improv skills and commercials.
How do you get cast on Law & Order: Criminal Intent?
If you want to be cast on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, the best place to start is by talking to a New York casting director. The easiest way to do that is to take an all-day class at Actors Connection with Kevin Kuffa, head casting director. Coincidentally, there’s an all-day New York acting seminar with Kevin tomorrow (Saturday). Click here to learn more about the class.
Wouldn’t you love to see your name in the opening credits? Or simply any of the credits?
