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5 Questions with Steve Whelan
LA is a wonderful melting pot of creatives. Every day actors, producers, writers and film makers unite to bring their work and dreams to life. As artists, we are not only blessed with the beauty of imagination, if we are really lucky, we meet people along the way who...
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Five Things You Should Know Before Moving to LA
I won’t lie to you, attempting to write this article I was fresh out of ideas. Normally, my ideas come to me during a conversation with a friend or by some weird event that takes place in my week and sparks interest in my head about what it all means. This week, no...
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Act Smart! The Actor Absolutes, Part 1
I've never taught acting, which is just one more reason why I never got to be the best actor I could have been. However, I did have the opportunity several years ago to share the best of what actors knew better than anyone else with a large group of civilians. What...
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Act Smart! Go Be A Clerk
As part of my wholehearted commitment as an artist to be 100% where I am, I took a class this year...in production accounting. If you'd told (Artist) Colleen of the Past that she was not only going to sign up for a class about accounting, production or otherwise, she...
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How To Turn A Bad Audition Partner Into A Good Audition Experience
It is a given if you have a good audition partner that you have a good audition experience and you walk out of the audition feeling like you have a good shot at the call back. Let’s define what a good audition partner is. A good audition partner has good timing and...
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Commercial Actors Should Never…
You can’t book a job you don’t audition for. Ok, maybe you can tell me a story of a direct booking from a director/production company you’ve worked with before, or even of a time you were booked from your headshot/resume/reel. It happens, sure, but not very often. You...
read more5 Questions with Mike DeLay Owner of Real Voice LA
I really wanted the job, but when they didn’t call I realized I had an opportunity to create something of my own. Failure is inevitable. However, it is not the failure itself that shapes our lives but, how we deal with it. As actors and above all artists, rejection is...
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THE COMPARISON GAME (And How To Stop Playing It)
Recently a friend of mine started a diet. Ok, please stick with me here, I’m going someone I swear. This particular diet in simple terms is a high fat, very low carb diet. So in his bid to lose weight, my friend has given up carbs completely and switched to almost...
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Commercial Actors Should Never…
The pace of commercials can be ridiculous. From the beginning of the production company’s contact with the casting director through the end of the shoot and edit, most of the time it’s a complete whirlwind. You may feel this when you receive a same day audition,...
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Act Smart! 3 x 5 to make the day great
Despite the automation of just about everything (and the speed I've gained by acquiring the skills for life on my journey), it still seems like there is never enough time to get everything done that I want to do. Whether I blame it on an expanding appetite or L.A....
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Seminar Recap