Zoom: FREE Online SEMINAR - PILOT SEASON 2025 with Up-To-Date Actor
Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 3pm ET / 12pm PT
Do you feel lost in the Pilot Season maze?
TV & Pilot Season can be a confusing time for many actors. The "season" is continuing to change and evolve from the old school traditional January-April model as streamers shake-up the industry and move to shooting pilots all year long. In this seminar we will explore these new trends and how projected production is shaping-up in the first months of 2025.
Career coach Annie Chadwick, Up-To-Date Theatricals, and Up-To-Date Actor creator Abigail Hardin will walk you through this maze and show you all of the abundant possibilities that await you through this busy audition season. Be informed so that you can take steps towards furthering your career with specificity and increase your quantity of high-caliber auditions.
In this seminar, they will explore all aspects of the 2025 Pilot Season & answer the following questions and much more:
- ·Do you know the new trends changing the format of Pilot Season and the overall process?
- ·What is the wheel of the year for Pilot and TV production?
- · Do you know how you can find out more details about Pilots and new series as they are announced, prior to casting announcements?
- ·What comes after Pilot Season?
To help you unlock and decipher the wealth of pilot information at this time, all attendees new to the Up-To-Date Actor will receive a FREE Full Access 1-Month Trial to the Up-To-Date Actor.
- find projects that match your unique skills & demographics
- build & discover connections with industry contacts
- log all auditions & events
- set specific career targets
- take control of your finances
- keep you connected to the industry no matter what state, city, town your home base is
- demystify the "business of acting" so you can focus on your craft
About Up-To-Date Theatricals & the Up-To-Date Actor
Owned and operated by the mother-daughter team of Annie Chadwick and Abigail Hardin, Up-To-Date Theatricals LLC (UTD) is one of the most comprehensive theatrical services in the country for professionals working in the performing arts. Founded in 1988 by NYC actress Annie Chadwick, UTD provides innovative, self-promotional marketing tools and national industry sourcebook publications. In addition to these career advancing services, UTD offers individualized one-on-one career building consultations as well as ongoing masterclasses and. Our latest digital service, the Up-To-Date Actor has become an invaluable tool for actors, no matter where they reside. The Up-To-Date Actor, created by founder Abigail Hardin, is the ultimate 24/7 personal assistant that gives artists the tools to be the CEO of their careers. This single destination, portable, industry insider provides daily updated Film/TV/Theatre projects, news, industry contacts, and tools for actors to run their performance career as a business.
Please follow the procedures listed below:
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Arrive at least 10 MINUTES before your event is slated to start. Your host will give important information about the event at this time.
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Instructions and the ZOOM link for access to this online event will be emailed to you in advance. If you have not received the link by 12pm (EST) the day-of the event, please reach out to registration@actorsconnection.com at least one hour PRIOR to the start of class.
**Actors Connection classes and programming are for ADULTS (18+). With permission, some teens (14+) are allowed to take adult programming. To inquire about getting permission, please send an email to: info@actorsconnection.com**
**No recording of any kind is permitted by participants during class.**
**Please keep in mind that all programs at Actors Connection are for educational and professional development purposes. Participating in any class or event is not a promise of employment.**
Annie Chadwick
ANNIE CHADWICK is the founder and owner of Up-To-Date Theatricals LLC. Her multifaceted performance career ranges from the stages of opera & musical theatre to the world of film and TV.
Recent work includes: Feinstein/54 Below Cabaret, “Broadway Bluegrass;” NPR - Trials of the Earth with NY City Slickers; Feature film, “Hank Boyd is Dead,” director Sean Melia.
Film/TV credits: Confessions of a Shopaholic, as John Lithgow’s wife; Law & Order: SVU; Animal Planet; Hallmark Channel’s New Morning; Awakenings; Saturday Night Live w/David Spade.
Favorite Theatre credits: Jacques Brel: Life Dance; Something’s Afoot; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Cabaret; Hello Dolly!; Baby; Steel Magnolias; Jerry’s Girls, Same Time Next Year and Faust with Jerome Hines.
Lead Singer, NYCity Slickers credits: Tours: Norway & Mississippi Home; soloist, “Bluegrass Mass; NBC TV - All Night with Joey Reynolds; NYC’s Central Park concert, opening for Grammy winner Marty Stuart.
Albums: Layin’ It Down and Cotton Comet Sky. Annie has a Masters Degree from Indiana University, School of Music. www.NYCitySlickers.com
Proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, ASCAP, AGMA.
Email Annie: annie@uptodatetheatricals.com
Abigail Hardin
ABIGAIL HARDIN is an owner of Up-To-Date Theatricals LLC and founder / designer of The Up-To-Date Actor.
Having been a professional child actress, with a career spanning from stage to screen, credits include: Theatre: Abby’s Song w/Paul Sorvino; That’s Showbiz!; Opa! (TBG); Little Kit (Vineyard); Anne Frank & Me (AJT). TV/Film: Dellaventura w/Danny Aiello; As the World Turns; Guiding Light; Nickelodeon and Searching for Bobby Fischer. Lead Singer/Songwriter, the NYCity Slickers. Albums: Layin’ It Down and Cotton Comet Sky.
After her studies at Emerson College, Abigail went back to Hunter College for Web Programming & Design and it was there that the idea came to her to create a digital product for Actors, unlike anything the industry has seen. Abigail Hardin Designs offers actors design services from resumes and postcards to websites & custom email campaigns. Abigail strives to help actors take command of their business.
Proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA & ASCAP.
www.AbigailHardinDesigns.com
Email: abigail@uptodateactor.com
The following disclaimer is provided specifically at the request of and in accordance with SAG/AFTRA: Seminars or classes are for educational purposes only and will not secure or provide opportunity for employment in the field or representation by an agent or casting director.
