Financial Stability for Actors
A day job is not a failure of commitment, desperation ruins auditions, and a rep who asks you for money is the reddest...
Mindset Videos for Actors
60 videos
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...
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...
January Reset
Craft goals instead of result goals, a weekly self tape, and the cheap ways to fill yourself up creatively when nothing...
ENVY
Why the other actors in the hallway are not your competition, judged against a standard rather than each other, and...
Shooting on Location: A Survival Guide for Actors
The part nobody mentions about location work is the loneliness. How to set up the housing, the visits and the routine...
Cosmetic Surgery For Actors
You do not need it, you are allowed to want it, and there are working reasons a face that moves is worth more than a...
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...
My Hollywood Family Story
A coach descended from one of Hollywood's great writer-directors on why she still started with nothing, and why nepo...
You Need To Fight For Your Audition
Most actors audition to avoid losing a job they do not have. What it looks like to go the other way, and where the line...
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...
Does Hollywood share your values?
The full conversation on lines you will not cross: guns, nudity, kissing, swearing, and the difference between a value...
You're Never Too Good
Background, commercials, verticals, soaps and student films. Why the only good reason to decline is that you do not...
How we prepare actors for work
Why auditioning is not the job, what a technique foundation is for, and the mistake beginning actors make in the first...
How to stay creative between acting jobs
What to do with the empty stretches, cheaply, and why the skill you pick up for fun keeps turning into the thing that...
Don't move to LA for acting. Just join our online classes
You do not have to move yet. Why online class is now closer to the actual job than the room is, and what to build where...
How to nail your callback
The main instruction is to change nothing unless asked. What to do with a note, how to handle a long wait, and why...
Don't wait for Hollywood to tell you that you are an actor
Nobody arrives with a wand to make you an actor. What to do with the years before anyone hires you, and two examples of...
Audition Tips: 5 Powerful Things Casting Directors Wish Actors Understood About Auditioning
Your slate is not the problem, being judged is the job description, and the reason crunch-time preparation never quite...
5 MORE Things Casting Directors Wish Actors Knew About Auditioning
Five things casting directors wish actors understood, from why the best actor loses the role to why some self tapes...
Using the 5 Love Languages for Acting
How to use Gary Chapman's five love languages to explain a character's emotional leaps when the usual scene prep...
Do You NEED Acting School to be an Actor? | How to Act
Working actors in LA and New York answer whether you need acting school, and name the specific classes and lessons that...
MORNING MOTIVATION 2019 FOR ACTORS I PERFORMERS I CREATORS
A short motivational piece built on a real argument: mass markets are over, so the odd specific thing about you is now...