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,...
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"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...
Using Online Platforms to Fund and Finance Your Film | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
GoFundMe, Seed&Spark and Slated explain how creators actually raise money: audience building first, a 30 day sprint,...
Become a Multi-Hyphenate and Create Your Own Work | The Business | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Three actors who now write, direct and produce on how they got there: calling card shorts, hundreds of money asks, the...
2026 Shorts Showcase: Creators & Cast Panel | Los Angeles, Night 2
The LA Night 2 shorts showcase filmmakers on writing yourself a role, cutting pages at lunch, trusting your casting...
How Skyler Zurn Cast Inde Navarrette in ‘Obsession’ + Finding Breakout Talent
Obsession casting director Skyler Zurn on how Inde Navarrette won Nikki, why the audition felt like a bomb, what kills...
2026 Shorts Showcase: Creators & Cast Panel | New York, Night 2
Actors, a composer and a producer from the New York Night 2 shorts showcase on crowdfunding live, the SAG micro-budget...
2026 Shorts Showcase: Creators & Cast Panel | Los Angeles, Night 1
The LA Night 1 shorts showcase filmmakers on casting outside the system, the myth that disabled actors cost more,...
Why the Actors Who Enjoy the Process Are the Ones Who Book the Most
Why the waiting is the career rather than the toll on the way to it, three traps that turn a good year into a...
2026 Shorts Showcase: Creators & Cast Panel | New York, Night 1
A SAG-AFTRA panel of shorts filmmakers on playing a whole arc in ten minutes, what an intimacy coordinator actually...
What voice clips do actors need?
Casting directors on what they actually want to hear in a voice clip, and why the demo reel is not the thing that gets...
David Dastmalchian
David Dastmalchian on getting clean, what casting director John Papsidera told him before The Dark Knight, and...
Acting Masterclass with Sean Astin | SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Sean Astin on what Patty Duke taught him on his first set, the training that made him commit to acting, and the...
Best Microphone For Self-Tapes? Don't Waste Your Money!
Ross from Act On This tests four microphones on the same self-tape script, and the most expensive one is not the one he...
Danny Boyle, Jack O'Connell and Guy Pearce for ‘Ink’ | Conversations at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
Danny Boyle, Jack O'Connell and Guy Pearce on rehearsal, researching Rupert Murdoch from 1969 interview footage, and...
How to prepare for your first audition
A coach at Speiser/Sturges Acting Studio walks through preparing sides for a first audition, from the cold read to...