New! Zoom: FREE Online SEMINAR - Book Your Own Work with Effective Casting Director Submissions with Up-To-Date Actor
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 3pm ET / 12pm PT
Join career coach Annie Chadwick and Up-to-Date Actor creator, Abigail Hardin, for an in-depth approach to the "Art of Effective Self-Submissions" and learn how the Up-To-Date Actor can aid you in this process.
They'll discuss effective ways to build connections with casting directors, get ahead of the audition process, and create targeted general submissions for Film, TV, and Theatre projects.
Knowing which upcoming projects are a fit with your unique talent, demographics, and skills is the first step in moving an acting career forward. The next step is to target the casting directors working on those projects and introduce your talent. The Up-to-Date Actor gives you these tools and empowers you to seek your own work with or without an agent.
Adopting the mindset that you are the CEO of YOU gives you the confidence to take bold action and announces that you are an actor who is ready to take your career to the next level.
This FREE workshop will include:
- How to research, target projects, and casting directors.
- Who to submit to on the creative team
- How to craft an effective cover letter/note that clearly gives a picture of your unique talent and why you are a perfect fit for the project.
- What marketing materials to include in the best digital format
- How to follow-up on your submissions.
All attendees, new to the Up-To-Date Actor, will receive a discount code for a 1-Month Full Access Free 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.
