Atlanta is hopping right now and in many ways the playing field of the Industry has never been this level for actors. From your apartment in Atlanta, you can capture your talent on video, send it West in the blink of an eye, and be considered for some of the biggest roles that Hollywood has [...]

The playing field keeps leveling. Gone are the days when only a select geographically-fortunate few would have the possibility of being seen for a big TV pilot. Self-taping is the new normal so you have to know how to shoot self-tapes that capture your extraordinary work at a moment's notice and with no-drama. 1. Breathe. [...]

Casting directors are your advocates and your champions. Your work reflects on us. Your wonderful work makes us look good and actually gets the role cast. Your disconnected, tentative, muddled work does nothing for anyone. We need you to be great. We’re here to host your experience and shepherd you in, not hold you back. [...]

You enter the audition room. Your heart is pounding so loud you that you can’t hear the casting assistant. Your mouth is dry but you left your water bottle in the waiting room. Your head is spinning on that one line you just can’t freaking remember. The casting director looks weary and indifferent. The reader [...]

2018 is the year of your Power. A shift in the collective consciousness regarding the old power dynamics in our industry has occurred. The patriarchal power brokers of an antiquated industrial model are being brought to their knees by brave voices demanding change. We’re not going back. And this is the perfect time for you, [...]

We all want the same thing. We all want actors to be absolutely freaking brilliant when it counts. But what can we all—agents, managers, casting directors, teachers—do to support actors so they audition with confidence and power? How can we squash the obsessive, crazy stuff that makes actors self-sabotage in the audition room and then […]

Bitterness is antithetical to art. Play is the cure. A practice of play keeps you engaged in the work for its own sake, keeps you focused on the creativity, keeps you in the practice of being positively reinforced for engaging in the work. A practice of play makes you dive into the audition material with […]

No actor is safe. There is always a reckoning. There is always a moment when your training, your talent, and your dogged pursuit of the business fall prey to the forces that sabotage, undermine, and ultimately sink your career. And the worst part is no one tells you about it. Indeed, there is another acting […]

You want to impress the casting director, producers, and directors in a casting room. You come in wanting so badly to do well, to know your lines, and to give them what they want, which is completely understandable. But here’s the thing, nobody knows what they want other than to be affected. And what they […]

To many, crying on cue is considered the gold standard of emotional accessibility. The idea is that crying at a moment’s notice is required if you truly have command over your instrument and want to give a director the emotion she needs in a timely manner. But before we get to how to do it, [...]

This may seem like a fairly technical question, and one that you might just gloss over or alternatively obsess about. No need to do either. See the thing is, the answer to the question speaks to more than just holding the script. It’s not really about that at all. There are absolutely reasons to hold [...]

By Risa Bramon Garcia I just watched some dailies of a pilot we recently cast and was thunderstruck with this obvious but powerful realization. The cast’s work was so present, so alive, so engaged, that there was no denying each actor’s truth, each character’s reality. I was fully in their story. And it has nothing […]