Actor Blog Posts
3 Critical Questions For Choosing Your Best Headshots
Your acting headshot is an essential tool for getting work as an actor, but you should also think of it as an investment. You can’t ...
How To Connect With Casting Directors in Hollywood
One of the critical actions for an actor to get Casting Directors to know them and call them in for auditions is to keep in ...
Create A Tipping Point In Your Acting Career
One of the most critical elements of success in any field, and especially, Hollywood, is to take consistent, directed action in moving your career forward. ...
Actor Headshot Tips: Look Like a Star on the Day of Your Shoot
I’m sure you’ve heard something like this before: “Just because everyone else is doing it, is no good reason for you to do it. Would ...
How to Balance a Day Job & Your Acting Career Without Losing Momentum
“Are you an actor?” “Oh, yes. As a matter of fact I am.” “Really? What restaurant do you work at?” Yep. That’s an old Hollywood ...
Tips to Get The Best Actor Headshots Of Your Life
This single most critical element of your success until you're a star is your headshot. There's no getting around it, you have to have a ...
Promote Your Acting Career Like a Business
One of the persistent complaints I hear from actors is that they don’t like to market themselves, they just want to act. The fact is ...
Typecasting Isn’t the End—How to Use It to Boost Your Acting Career
Most actors feel that versatility is their strength and so resist typecasting. While you might be able to play anything from Ace Ventura to Schindler, a ...
5 Tactics For Getting Cast in a Television Pilot
Landing a role in a television pilot could change your life. Pilot season is a time for anyone who is serious about an acting career ...
The Best Way to Get a Talent Agent and Jumpstart Your Acting Career
If you’re an actor looking to get auditions and casting calls for film, television, commercials, soaps, hosting and so forth, then you need to get ...
5 Truths Hollywood Doesn’t Tell You About Your Audition
Getting a call for an audition is one of the more exciting moments for an actor who’s trying to establish their acting career in Hollywood, ...
Networking for Actors: 5 Mistakes That Make You Look Like a Jerk
When actors network in the film and TV business, it should be the same as networking in any other industry. Unfortunately, because actors feel so ...
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