The basics for your self-tape set up
A casting-side view of the self-tape basics: cheap light, a lav mic, a head and shoulders frame, and sending the take...
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193 videosFree video advice for working actors, gathered from the channels worth following. Every video is transcribed, so the search box finds what people actually say on camera, not just what is in the title.
Nathan Lane & Hank Azaria for The Birdcage | Conversation for Robin Williams Center 10th Anniversary
Nathan Lane and Hank Azaria look back on The Birdcage at 30: how they were cast, how Mike Nichols ran the set, and what...
Marvel Casting Director on Why Robert Downey Jr. Was Right for ‘Iron Man’ | Sarah Halley Finn
Marvel's casting director on Robert Downey Jr.'s screen test, Tom Holland's audition months, bold choices, self-tapes,...
Cast Conversation for ‘Eternally Yours’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
The cast of CBS's Eternally Yours tells the SAG-AFTRA Foundation how each of them got the job: a dead pilot reading, a...
Why Some Actors Book TV Roles (And Others Don't)
Ross from Act On This names the five patterns he sees, after coaching over 41,500 UK actors, that separate the actors...
Juan Pablo Di Pace for ‘Before We Forget’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Juan Pablo Di Pace talks about writing, directing and starring in Before We Forget, a film built from his own first...
Stop over-thinking it and start the Substack already (or podcast, YouTube Channel, IG account etc)
Kat Elizabeth on why the urge to start a Substack, podcast or channel is worth following even if it never leads...
Stop making excuses to avoid being seen. You're as ready as you'll ever be.
Kat Elizabeth on why the list of things to finish before you start posting keeps growing, and why showing up is what...
If you're tempted to start a new YouTube Channel (or IG), watch this first.
Kat Elizabeth started a new YouTube channel to escape her old one, then came back. The reality checks she got, and the...
What to Do When Everyone Around You Is Booking and You're Not | Powerhouse Conversations Ep. 31
Powerhouse Actor on the pang you feel when a classmate books, why actors are so prone to it, and a five step plan to...
Navigating the Actor/Manager Relationship | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Four talent managers on a SAG-AFTRA Foundation panel explain what managers do, how to get their attention, what a...
State of the Industry: Video Games | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Casting directors, voice directors, an agent and working actors on the state of games in 2026: the market, celebrity...
John Goodman Career Retrospective | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
John Goodman looks back on 50 years with an Equity card: dinner theater, commercials, the Coens, Roseanne, Karl...
What's Up With Verticals? | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
A casting director, an agent, a director and two actors on vertical micro dramas: what they are, how they cast, 15 to...
How ‘Heated Rivalry’ Found Connor & Hudson | Chemistry Reads + Season 2 Casting
The Heated Rivalry casting directors explain how they found Connor and Hudson, what a chemistry read is really testing,...
"Heated Rivalry" Casting Directors Jenny Lewis & Sara Kay
Jenny Lewis and Sara Kay of Lewis Kay Casting on chemistry reads over Zoom, self-tape myths, what a real choice looks...
How to Use Social Media as an Actor Without Feeling Like a Content Creator
Why an actor's job on social media is to be findable, credible and connected, and five kinds of collaboration that grow...
Liz Sargent, Victor Slezak, Marceline Hugot and Ali Ahn for ‘Take Me Home’ | Conversations
Liz Sargent and the cast of Take Me Home on building a film around her sister Anna: listening without an agenda,...
How to organise your showreel ☝️
A casting director explains how showreels are actually watched: fifteen seconds, best scene first, and nothing that...
James Ortiz for ‘Project Hail Mary’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Puppeteer and actor James Ortiz on landing Rocky through a casting director who remembered him, a bold audition choice,...
Samantha Sloyan on ‘Carrie,’ Mike Flanagan, Playing Unlikable Characters
Samantha Sloyan on playing Margaret White in Mike Flanagan's Carrie: the freedom of not being liked, drilling a...
Watch Me Self-Tape For A New Amazon Series (& Steal My Setup!)
Ross Grant of Act On This tapes for a new Amazon series on camera: reading the brief, Kelly Valentine Hendry's golden...
Conversations for ‘Outlander: Blood of my Blood’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
The cast of the Outlander prequel on playing the younger versions of beloved characters without imitation, researching...
Boyd Holbrook & Hiam Abbass for ‘Atonement’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Boyd Holbrook and Hiam Abbass on an Iraq War drama based on real people: script analysis before research, dropping an...