How Karim Diane Books Hollywood Roles | Acting Coach Brad Heller
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Karim Diane on how he started booking once he stopped imitating other leading men...
Acting Technique Videos for Actors
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Backstage With: ‘Love Story’ EPs Brad Simpson + Nina Jacobson
Love Story's EPs on casting unknowns, why in-person chemistry reads still win, and what they actually watch for in an...
Actors! Hollyoaks audition tips ☝️
A Hollyoaks director on what wins auditions: worked-on pages, live reactions on the off-lines, and where personality...
Acting Tips: Actors Who Memorize This, Memorize Faster!
Why some actors are off book in ten minutes: they are not storing words, they are attaching words to a lifetime of...
? THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION - Acting Scene Performed by Cody Martin
A performed scene from The Shawshank Redemption between Andy and Red, useful as scene study material for the...
Acting Tips: How do I get more vulnerable?
A note nobody knows what to do with, and the specific question that turns it into something actionable.
Hollywood Values Clash? Actress Reveals How to Stay True! #shorts
What to do when the work asks for something you will not do, and why the decision has to be made before the audition...
Acting Tips: Sense Memory
The memory system you are already using without noticing, and the six questions that put a scene in your body instead...
Actor Confidence: Your Path to Authentic Performance #shorts
Confidence as something you build rather than something you have, and the one sentence that reframes it: competence...
Actor Interview wth J. Teddy Garces Part 1
A working television actor on bombing an audition and booking it anyway, why a callback is a win, and the backstory...
Vocal Work for Actors | Why Your Voice Is Your Most Important Tool
The tool actors neglect most, and the specific things a voice class fixes: pitch, tension, projection, placement and...
How I went from Throwing up to a Standing Ovation
A coach who threw up on the way to an audition and quit acting, and the student who went off book in ten minutes...
Showing up as you. The power of authentic presence.
A talk on why trying to give a scene what you think it needs cuts out the only ingredient that makes it work, and three...
Acting Tip: It's Not About The Lines
The dictionary definition of rote is mechanical repetition with little intelligence, which is a strange place to start...
Why every actor should take an Improv class
Why improv is training for listening, adapting and confidence, and how it exposes the places your character work is...
Acting Tip: Commitment Issues
Another result-oriented note with no instructions attached. The fix is in the intention, and there is a four-part test...
Listening for actors
The note given more than any other in class, why anticipation is the thing ruining scenes, and how to practice a skill...
Acting Tip: Take note and deliver
Be specific. Commit. Give me more subtext. What those notes actually mean, and why saying sure and guessing is the...
Acting Tips: Auditions are Incubators of Your Fears
Fight, flight, freeze and fawn all show up in auditions. Which one is yours, why it is normal, and the four questions...
The Worst Actors That I've Worked With
Four types a coach dreads working with, what they have in common, and the preparation nobody ever sees that keeps...
Studio Party!
The character party exercise: work out what you get cast as, find a real person who is it, and learn to do one thing...
Does Hollywood share your values?
The full conversation on lines you will not cross: guns, nudity, kissing, swearing, and the difference between a value...
Acting Tips: Think the Character's Thoughts
The note is confusing until you work backward from the times it happened by itself. What was different, and how to make...
You're Never Too Good
Background, commercials, verticals, soaps and student films. Why the only good reason to decline is that you do not...