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...
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The Best Memorization Tool
Why sleeping on fully drilled lines is the fastest route to effortless recall, and the speed-run test that tells you...
Damian Lewis as Antony in Julius Caesar: 'Friends, Romans, countrymen' | Shakespeare Solos
A two and a half minute performance of Antony's funeral oration, and what its refrain, evidence and final pause ask of...
What You Should Be Doing With Your IMDb Profile | Workshop Guru
A checklist for getting your IMDb profile complete: contact info, photos, self-submitted credits, missing credit...
Make Your Instagram Bio Pop!
How to write an Instagram bio that says what you do, shows your personality and formats with line breaks and emojis.
Kate Winslet shares her acting secrets
Kate Winslet on letting preparation go, reading the source novel, holding focus on set and why you should never...
Get more eyes on your actor website using social media!
Six practical ways to point social media traffic at your actor website, plus what not to post to get it.
Philip Quast gives a masterclass in singing Les Mis
Philip Quast takes Javert's soliloquy apart line by line: the argument inside a lyric, and why he has to reach ahead of...
Karl Malden on Marlon Brando's greatness
Karl Malden on what made Brando different: the full pause, being guided versus dragged, and the studio fight over...
ACTING - THE FINAL LESSON ! (Acting coaches nyc)
A four minute talk on the one idea that dissolves acting's difficulties: once you are ready, there is no performance to...
Stella Adler: Awake and Dream! from "American Masters"
Stella Adler on acting with your soul, choosing imagination over emotional memory, and playing action in the body...
LIVE Video Broadcast With LA Acting Image Guru - Sam Christensen!
Casting director turned image coach Sam Christensen on decoding the note "just be yourself," using the slate, and...
Websites For Actors...Will They Help You Book Jobs?
A casting director's case for why an actor should own a website even though it will never book a job by itself.
The Business: Prepping for Pilot Season - Audition Technique
Four coaches who disagree with each other about memorizing, nerves and preparation, and the places they all land in the...
Henry Thomas audition för E.T. "Ok kid, you got the job".
Henry Thomas booked Elliott on an improvised scene with no script. What the recording actually shows about playing one...
FREE ACTING LESSON: Introduction to Acting
Objective and emotion as two separate tools, and a way to reach real intensity without mining your own life for it.
William Esper Studio: 6 Week Summer Intensive (Meisner based training)
What a summer intensive gives you when you cannot commit two years to a conservatory.
Web Tutorials: "Ask The Senior Agent": The Actor's Website
A senior agent on what belongs on an actor's site, and the one contact detail to leave off it.
Casting Director Marci Liroff on Filmnut
Marci Liroff on booking the room instead of the part, why the breakdown is cliff notes, and what she thinks of paid...
What NOT to do on an audition - Filmnut
A casting director on the ways well trained actors lose the room before they have read a line.
How Seinfeld Experience Influenced Actor Ken Davitian's Role in Borat, all Revealed on Filmnut
Ken Davitian on booking Borat by convincing the room he had no business being there.
500 Days of Summer, Other Scripts, and How Long it Takes to Complete
A producer on real timelines, and why a project going quiet for years is normal rather than a bad sign.
Meisner Technique with William Esper - So You Want to be an Actor?
William Esper on deciding what kind of actor you want to be before you decide where to train, and where the American...
Acting Coach Larry Moss
Larry Moss on attention, breath, script analysis, and the psychology that stops talented actors long before technique...