Are you on the right casting website?
How to work out whether the casting sites you pay for are the right ones for your goals, the work you accept and your...
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Should I Include Student Productions In My Acting Reel?
How to judge whether existing production footage is good enough for your reel, and when to film new material in a...
Acting 101 Audition Horror Stories | JND
Real audition scams and unsafe locations from a working actor, and the specific questions that would have caught each...
SelfSubmitU: Who Are We?
How a paid service handles an actor's daily submissions, filters roles to your rules, and how it differs from an agent...
How To Filter Audition Notices Into A New Folder In Gmail
A step-by-step Gmail walkthrough for routing breakdowns and audition notices into their own folders instead of your...
Actors Return On Investment from Casting Sites
How to work out whether a casting site subscription is paying off, using submissions, auditions and a simple percentage.
Should You Track Your Self Submissions?
How logging every casting site submission reveals your real audition rate, which headshot works, and whether each paid...
3 Ways ShowFax Helps Actors Acting Career
What a $68 Showfax membership gets you: free Actors Access submissions, free sides and a usable profile link.
Top Acting Sites For Actors Los Angeles
A ranked rundown of seven Los Angeles casting websites, what each one covers, which cities they serve and which are...
Where The $&#* Am I?
How to build the specific physical world of an audition scene so your eye lines, reactions and body come from the room...
Building a Strong Online Casting Profile (Part 3)
How to audit an existing casting profile using your submission results, label your reel clips by role type and build...
All About... THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE!
What the Alexander Technique is, how releasing neck and shoulder tension changes a read, and where to find a certified...
Building a Strong Online Casting Profile (Part 2)
How to build on a basic casting profile: on type headshot sets, an on type reel, and tracking which sites actually get...
Stop Writing on Your Script
Why highlighting and margin notes tie you to the page, and how to do the same beat work out loud instead.
Building a Strong Online Casting Profile (Part 1)
The baseline setup for an online casting profile: choosing the right site, completing every field, and the one headshot...
How To Upload A Demo Reel To Actors Access
The exact click path for getting a reel off YouTube as an MP4 and onto your Actors Access profile.
How To Save Time Submitting To Casting Sites
Five practical fixes for actors who cannot find time to check breakdowns, from written restrictions to delegating...
The Best Time For Actors To Submit To Casting Sites
How to work out when breakdowns land on your casting sites, and a three-times-a-day schedule for submitting inside 12...
Make a DSLR Look Like a RED camera w/ Director Matt Alonzo
A director on making inexpensive cameras look expensive, which is exactly the problem an actor making their own content...
How the mind of Heath Ledger created The Joker
How Heath Ledger refused to repeat himself, pursued the Joker directly, and built the character in six weeks of...
DON'T do these things at an AUDITION! Noooooo!
A run of audition don'ts, from perfume and props to handshakes, chatty small talk and how early is too early.
Interruption and Conflict
A short, practical method for breaking down an audition scene by finding where you were headed, what interrupted you...
Should I Improvise in an Audition?
When adding your own lines to an audition helps and when it costs you the role, told through two recurring TV bookings.
How to Frame a Self-Tape
What close-up, medium and standard framing actually mean for a self-tape, and how to adjust light and distance when you...