As we kick off 2025 this is the perfect time to pause and reflect on what you achieved and experienced in 2024. For actors, the beginning of the new year […]
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In class this week we got into a really great discussion about acting and how to really get yourself motivated. It all stems from love. Here’s the video, watch it
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#TechniqueTuesdaySetting the Stage for Success: A Guide to Effective Goal Setting for Actors Welcome to 2024! It’s January and if you haven’t made your New Year’s Resolutions—there’s no time like
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Romeo & Romeo—What It Really Takes To Be A Good Actor Last month I got to attend the Utah Shakespeare Festival. In fact I went several times. Living in Salt
If you feel the urge to act take it seriously. It means you are meant to act. That you are an actor. And that urge will never go away. I
What Skills Are in Your Basket? Let’s take a minute to talk about what those skills might be and more importantly which of those are totally accessible to you right
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The acting industry can be a roller-coaster. The ups are so exhilarating and the downs can be super hard to deal with, heartbreaking even. AND as actors we’re super sensitive
What I really love about Judi Dench is that she didn’t become the icon that she is now, until she was older. She had an early interest in the theatre
Bette Davis was one of the most popular and prolific actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age. If anyone ever tells you you’ve got her eyes, that’s a huge compliment! Getting her start on Broadway when she was 22, she moved to Hollywood where she did films until she was in her mid 70’s. She was the first person to be nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning two of them. She was known for playing sardonic, intelligent, passionate women and was a bit of a spitfire herself. Do you know she even auditioned to play Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind?
Do you hold yourself back with your acting career because you’re afraid of being wrong or that you’ll make yourself look like an amateur?
That’s a common condition for a lot of actors, in my experience. Even ones who are “established”. But why do we do that? Hold back and don’t try to get an agent or better agent? Stay stuck in our 9 to 5 getting more hopeless by the day? Go weeks or even months without letting those wild horses of our acting drive out to tear up the fields?
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