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...
Resource Videos for Actors
42 videos
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.